How Is Ego a Global Threat?

On one hand, we live in a period where we need to undergo a fateful transformation from our inborn egoistic attitudes to upgraded, altruistic ones. On the other hand, we lack the qualities to implement such a change.

In order to actualize this transformation, we need to possess the feeling of imbalance that we cause humanity, through closer and broader circles of society, to the entirety of nature and to the whole universe.

Where is this balance, and how do we restore nature’s balance from our position as humans? Nature operates on all levels, the still, vegetative, animate, and at the human level, with its laws of interconnection and interdependence.

Where does our activity fit within this picture?

We are constantly evolving and changing in this system, and the main change we undergo as humans is at the level of our relationships and attitudes to each other.

The problem is that the ego constantly grows within us, which makes us want to increasingly benefit ourselves at the expense of others and nature. This is the cause of our every problem. We thus have to learn what the ego is, and how we can balance it in order to have better lives.

We should thus prioritize learning what nature requires of us. First, we should be afraid of breaching nature’s balance in our relationships, because by breaching the balance through letting negative relations unfold in an unabated manner, then our imbalance ripples throughout nature and we get hit by nature’s many blows, which may be diseases, disasters, or several other problems we encounter on personal, social, economic, and ecological scales.

We should thus initially try to get along with each other in a way that would be positive for everyone. Also, we should understand that positive human connections require us each to rise above our individual egos.

We should seek to rise above our egos and act positively to each other, each like a mother toward her children. Anyone who is in a family with two or more kids of ages that are close to each other would know that the kids’ egos regularly flare up, making them fight and argue with each other, and the mother continually tries to stop her children from fighting, trying to make them be good and play nicely with each other. We should also adopt a similar kind of approach to each other in order to improve our connections.