I think this is a very important article because it points to the most crucial and uniquely human aspect of our being: free choice.

In order to free choice to exist there has to be two possibilities.



As the article suggest human beings have a "double sided" nature.

Our basic matter is a desire to receive satisfaction, fulfillment for ourselves.

As our ego developed this nature self-calculating nature of ours have developed to its maximum, dominating "our being", creating the present human society where exclusive an exploitative competition reigns. Today we want to succeed, profit, enjoy at the expense of others.



Even the initial, "fair" paradigm of "what is mine is mine, what is yours is yours" have been distorted to "what is mine is mine, what is yours is mine".



But as the author describes we have another side, our compassionate, even altruistic side.

So far as self-preservation, the "survival of the fittest" was in primary focus in our development, this compassionate side of ours have been naturally suppressed.



But now evolution put us into completely new conditions. In the new, global and integral human system where everybody is interconnected and interdependent the "homo economicus", or "cancer-like" human cannot survive.



As it happened with single cell organisms gradually merging into multi-cellular organisms for survival, now humanity also have to create a single, global "human being" in order to build a sustainable future. Sine human beings are not above, outside of the evolving natural system but are part of it, this evolutionary switch, change from individualistic, self-serving humanity to a globally, mutually cooperating, complementing one will happen without our choice. But if we leave this change to natural development, it will take many crisis situations, probably wars and incomprehensible suffering to convince us to change.



But uniquely to human beings capable of critical self-assessment and self-change, we have a free choice. We can increase the dominance of our compassionate side over the dominance of our self-serving nature, thus paving the way of a new human society that is mutually responsible, mutually cooperating instead of the exclusive competition.



Any sustainable change requires positive motivation, all similar social experiments based on trickery, or terror have failed. And positive motivation and fundamental, sustainable change can only be achieved with a special education program and by changing the values of society.

This is what we have to start working on without any hesitation.