How to Maximize Our Free Choice

After centuries of scientific development, we're right on the verge of discovering that there are fundamental laws in our world that affect us and the quality of our lives. It's time for us to evolve in a more conscious manner and discover these natural laws in the world around us.

We're not the same as animals who are driven by their natural drives, which dictate its behavior from within. Unlike animals, we have freedom of choice with regard to our actions. But that freedom sometimes yields undesirable results. Humans sometimes harm themselves, while animals do not. They eat one another, but only to sustain themselves, not because they have an ego or are inclined to harm or dominate others.

In other words, humans have a “surplus desire” that is not subject to the laws of nature. These are desires that go beyond basic things such as eating, reproducing, and building a home. We also want to travel, to see the world, to develop science, knowledge, culture, education, and whatever else makes life enjoyable.

Throughout history, we’ve never known how to use our superior human traits. Instead of establishing happy, good lives, we’ve come to a place of depression and hopelessness.

For some reason, humans conduct their lives in a worse way than animals. Humans are constantly suffering, stressed, competing, and “consuming” themselves. When we look at others, we envy and hate them, yet we demand respect from them. Throughout history, we’ve never known how to use our superior human traits. Instead of establishing happy, good lives, we’ve come to a place of depression and hopelessness.?

Why Good Social Environments Are Hard To Find

There is an actual inversion in society’s attitude toward us. As long as we’re young, our social environment is relatively considerate and kind to us. But as soon as we grow up and join the workforce, their attitudes toward us change and become seemingly inconsiderate, while we would prefer to continue being treated like children and not committed to growth. We would like to be excused and treated as nicely as before, but circumstances have changed.

The change in attitude toward us on the part of nature is extreme. In the animal kingdom, parents guard their young until they are on their feet and can move and get to know their surroundings. After a while, the young are set free and must provide for their own food and safety, raise their own young, or become part of the pack.

It would seem that it needn’t be that way for us because our society is made up of intelligent, knowledgeable, and understanding people. We use our intelligence to constantly change and improve the world. So why can’t we make a better world where we don't tear each other to shreds?

If we would relate to our social environment properly, by building a wholesome society together - our life would be far more pleasant and safe.

Throughout history, previous generations lived in clans, like villages, where everyone cared for everyone else. The men would all hunt together to get food for the clan, and the women would stay home, to prepare the food and tend to the children. Everybody cared for each other’s children. What changed?

When Our Ego Continues Growing

What happened is that our egos grew, and as a result, we’ve drifted apart from one another. We began to look at each other as competitors, ranking people by who was worth more and who was worth less. Now we want to dominate others, by "acquiring" them as employees or slaves. We even want to steal what’s theirs because we no longer have anything in common with them, such as keeping a household together.

Our egos began to separate us and detach us from that primitive society, that primordial commune, and spoiled things for us.

The problem is that the growing ego is the one prompting us to obtain knowledge and discover new things. As long as our growing ego is to develop us and increase our desires, it's all good. But if our desires had evolved toward obtaining good things not only for ourselves, but also for our environment, it would be even better.

Because of the competition among us, we are destroying nature and ecology, since we’re using our egos to harm others.

Is that even possible? History proves it’s not. For as long as we’ve been developing, our egos have grown into a mountain of hatred, envy, lust, pursuit of honors, and a desire to dominate everyone. We have everything, yet because of our ill attitudes toward each other, we cannot establish good laws; we are unhappy, unwell, and insecure. Because of the competition among us, we are destroying nature and ecology, since we’re using our egos to harm others.

Nature, which develops us through its laws and through the environment, treats us in two ways: On the one hand, it intensifies our egos; on the other hand, it shows us how the growing ego within us constantly separates us and positions us against one another.

So what can we do if we have two opposite forces within us? On the one hand, there is an inclination within us that causes us to feel satisfaction when we benefit ourselves at the expense of others. On the other hand, in that same inclination, we feel no satisfaction because when we use it, the result is that everything—society, science, education, culture, and our personal life—is ruined by that same power of development; namely, the ego. The big question that no one is asking yet is, “Can we change how we use our egos?”

The big question that no one is asking yet is, “Can we change how we use our egos?”

Learning To Use Our Ego Properly

If we can’t find within us the power to restrain the ego, we must find in a way to use it in a positive manner. This doesn’t mean that we should stop being egoists, because it's precisely through this motivation, we’ve obtained many things beyond food, clothing, housing, and health.

If the ego has brought us to such excellence in our technological development, we must learn to use it for the best, to harness it, and steer it away from hating others and instead, use it to fix the rifts in our society. In this way we'll be able maintain our standard of living and continue to develop in every realm of life in this world.

If we only knew how to use our egoistic nature in favor of the environment and society, we would develop ourselves and our surroundings, and we would do it in a good and favorable manner.

Long ago, people considered everyone as one entity because the ego still wasn’t fully developed. But, can people today progress with their ego so that by looking slightly beyond it, they see how we're all connected?

If we find the antidote to hate and division, there is no doubt that we'll be able to continue thriving despite the crisis that is seemingly slowing down our development.

How can we can mend our relations and our attitudes toward the environment and toward humanity? If we find the antidote to hate and division, there is no doubt that we'll be able to continue thriving despite the crisis that is seemingly slowing down our development.

So we need to start thinking about where we can derive the strength to use our nature in a positive, rather than a negative, manner. If we learn to invert our attitudes and think of the wellbeing of others and the environment—then instinctively, the world would be filled with positive forces. We would look around us and see a healthy environment that everyone can thrive in. For all this to happen, we need to learn how our ego works. ?