What Are the Benefits of Social Cohesion?
Social cohesion and sparing ourselves from myriad crises are codependent.
How does it work? We live in a system of laws that govern relationships between closeness and separation on physical and biological scales. While living within these laws, the human will is the most powerful and influential force that can change how these laws influence us. Accordingly, by coming closer in our wills, desires and intentions, we can alter the very way nature’s laws influence us.
Unfortunately, we have no examples of alterations in the influence of nature’s laws on us in response to certain efforts in our wills and intentions. It is because we have yet to achieve such a transformation. However, the laws are organized such that if we change our attitudes to each other from negative to positive, then no more crises will befall us.
Moreover, sparing ourselves from myriad crises, problems and diseases are the smallest scale benefits that we experience when we change our attitudes to each other from negative to positive, thereby increasing our social cohesiveness. Beyond such a level, we unlock the way to a whole new harmonious and peaceful life that we have never known in our current lives, discovering a newfound happiness and confidence sweep through society as we become enlivened with a new socially cohesive atmosphere, one of mutual consideration, support and encouragement.
What Would Happen if Humankind United?
If humanity united positively like one big family, we would then see a whole new reality unfold, one of happiness, well-being, confidence, harmony and peace both in human society and between humanity and nature.
We can somewhat liken it to a baby in its mother’s arms. What could be better for the baby? In its mothers’ arms, the baby is in its safest place, feeling complete confidence and security. That is somewhat how we would feel among human society at large if we unite with relations akin to a single family.
In such a state, we would also each receive fulfillment from our feeling of responsibility toward humanity. How would such a feeling fulfill us? It is because, in this integral system, we each have a unique point from which we are responsible for all people, and we would then feel that responsibility and act on it. Moreover, in such a state where everyone would feel as if they live in a single family, humanity would fuel each person with the necessary energy and resources to sustain a sense of mutual responsibility.
Everyone would then have everything that they ultimately want in life. We would then discover the positive forces dwelling in nature, and they would provide us with everything we need abundantly.
Imagine if all eight billion people in the world were thinking about your benefit, that you would be happy, healthy, confident and have everything you need in life? You would then have no self-concerns, and you would then also wish to think about how you could benefit them in return.
Mutual responsibility brings us into balance with the general laws of nature. As we head into the future, we are going to increasingly want such a state to emerge because it is the destination where nature ultimately leads us. We will also see that we have no choice but to live as a united humanity if we truly wish to enjoy our lives.
I thus wish for us all to feel our interdependence as one unified globally-integrated society, and that we will reach this feeling sooner rather than later. By doing so, we will spare ourselves much suffering in the process.