Today, we're fighting a global pandemic as a bunch of selfish individual humans, selfish individual groups of humans, and selfish individual nations, each with our own agendas as individuals.
In the US, we’re taught that the best way of life is the way of competition. Rampant individualism is the order of the day. This extreme individualism is a spiritual pathology. It pushes us to act in selfish ways, in the misguided belief that selfishness is a) moral, b) natural and inevitable, and c) will best enable our genes to reproduce. At the conscious level, we believe that it’s every man for himself, nation against nation, and that somehow out of this sinkhole of interpersonal horrors will come the benefits of civilization; will come luxury and wealth, possessions, high culture, beauty and health and all the sparkling lures of a dominator culture. Instead, individualism is the straightest road to extinction.
Individualism is the disease that will kill us, not Covid-19.
Individualism is the disease that will kill us, not Covid-19.
Individualism disables our greatest strength as a species: our ability to work together for the common good. It crushes our ability to empathize, innovate and create. It wastes resources. It allows the most selfish individuals to become the greatest of the earth’s lords and masters, who then oppress us ruthlessly for their own glory and gain.
If we fought this virus as a united world, all working together for the
welfare of the species, and if money was no more and the wealthy were
cast out and we only accepted leaders of great wisdom, creativity and
compassion, then Covid-19 would be a very small threat to us, indeed.
In short: We are oppressed and kept from working together, and that’s why New York can’t get enough ventilators.
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