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For centuries Europeans have been building the Tower of Babel, each on his own side of the world, but the process of building it has turned into an unmanageable form of crisis.
Every crisis suggests the need to reconsider the meaning-making basis of the system, and until that basis is found, the state of humanity and the standard of living of people will steadily deteriorate.
Today’s crisis is different from the crises of past times; it has become a global crisis. History shows that nations unite around problems that threaten them, forgetting all internecine strife.
And such a unifying problem of the modern world could be the global, civilizational crisis that has engulfed all of humanity, which should rally people to find ways out of it and transition to a new level of functioning.
But to do this, we need to start looking together for solutions to the world’s problems, as the world has become global, and rebuild the system, according to a common understanding of what it should be?
The solution to the crisis in unification
Politicians are scattered to national corners and each is confident that separately from the others will survive the crisis more successfully and cope with their own and the world’s problems themselves. This individualistic approach was inherited from our ancestors.
The fact is that for hundreds and thousands of years people have lived with their consciousness only of their own societies or countries, which were not physically connected to the rest of the world by the economy, the banking system, the Internet, etc.
People lived in their familiar surroundings, without connecting themselves with the rest of the world. They existed autonomously, and even if one part of world society died at all, the others hardly felt it. And their immediate neighbors could even benefit from this by taking over territories, etc.
In today’s world, all countries are physically connected, and even if one country imposes sanctions on another, they are nevertheless within the same system.
However, there is no connection between people, although humanity as a system is a single whole, but people do not feel each other as a single society. The problem arises – physically we are all connected, but on a relational level everyone hates everyone. Hence the crisis.
Imagine a family or a small village where all the inhabitants are relatives and hate each other – it’s a terrible condition!
The world is a big village
The modern world is a big village, with all humans genetically belonging to the same ancestor, all of us including, belonging to the same species. But people still don’t have a common understanding of what the purpose of our development is, what we are developing for, and where the final stop is? Consequently, there is no common understanding of how to overcome the crisis?
If the process of societal development from apes to modern humans had a beginning, there is an end, i.e. some kind of goal is achieved. The logic of human development suggests that we do not develop aimlessly, for a reason.
Mankind goes through a spiral of social evolution, and at each turn society becomes more complex. Social relations change, social orders replace each other, and humanity, as a system, each time becomes more united and unified.
I.e. Evolutionarily, people evolve from sparsely connected communities – clan, village, city-state, to multi-connected ones – states, organizations of united nations, etc. The future of humanity is a single world without borders between people.
It is impossible to oppose the trend of unification, it is an evolutionary process, no one in the world can turn against evolution and close themselves off in their country from the rest of humanity. Otherwise, this is where the history of this state will end and it will die, slowly and painfully.
The crisis cannot be overcome otherwise; it is not an economic, ecological or other crisis – all of these are only particular manifestations of the main crisis of humanity – the crisis of relations between people. Relationships, social ties in society are where the real crisis and the place that needs constant work.
It is useless to plug endless economic distortions or fix environmental problems without changing people’s attitudes toward each other and the environment. When will people realize this?
First the man himself must change, and everything else will change automatically under the influence of the new logic and the new laws of human relations.
What kind of laws are these? The laws of unity, the solidarity of humanity over all separateness, over selfishness – just as in nature all elements are united in a single biological family.
