Watching the social processes unfolding on Earth — the desperate attempts to patch economies through new wars, the staggering abstract debt built into the very foundation of the current monetary system, the experiments with transhumanism and all the rest — I’ve arrived at a clear conclusion.
Humanity needs to redefine its collective purpose for existence.
Until now, we’ve been running entirely on survival. Everything that human beings do at the collective level is driven by short-sighted survival thinking. I say short-sighted because many of the strategies we use to extend survival in its current form — wars, exploitation, environmental destruction — actually undermine the very conditions that make survival possible. The old satisfactions are fading, and we haven’t yet found new ones. Survival alone is not enough.
Humanity Needs a New Purpose — as Urgently as It Needs Clean Water
Survival should become what it should have been all along: something natural and self-evident — not something we spend every day anxiously scrambling to secure, with nothing broader to live for. Every civilization faces challenges, including challenges tied to its basic existence. But most of our current survival problems are ones we’ve created ourselves, through a sick social system we’re afraid to change because we can’t imagine life without it. It’s the kind of trap where the cure seems more frightening than the disease.
Our new purpose — one we would pursue both as a collective and as individuals — should be self-knowledge, self-improvement, and open-minded exploration of the universe around us. Not the kind of exploration limited by clinging to old dogmas, whether religious or “scientific,” but genuine inquiry rooted in curiosity and intellectual honesty.
Humanity needs to recognize the value of true self-knowledge and self-development — and understand the potential that lies within them. Because the truth is: all the shortages and deficiencies that currently keep us locked in survival mode are artificially constructed. They can be solved. The resources exist. What is missing is not material — it is vision, will, and a collective sense of direction.
The path forward doesn’t require a grand revolution on day one. It begins with small steps — ones we can actually take. And if we keep walking, one real step at a time, we may look back one day and realize that this method of modest but genuine progress has carried us somewhere far greater and more magnificent than we ever imagined.
It’s tempting to close this piece with that old slogan — the one on the poster featuring a certain elderly American gentleman in a distinctive hat: “We Need You!” And that really is a universal truth, independent of any particular system. We create society together through our contribution. Without that contribution, we become silent endorsers of the current order. Times have come when our actions — or our inaction — are themselves a statement of support. But there is something good stirring in us as a society: the growing awareness that we have a choice, and that choosing differently is possible.
Jakub Qba Niegowski — Extrasensory Awareness Development Specialist
