THE NEED
“Modern” culture is based on anthropocentric – the belief that the human is the highest creation and everything else is inferior to them. Even some people have the power of privilege over other people. Strongly associated with this belief is competition and the pursuit of power and supremacy. The modern education system develops in children and young people a desire to be “the best”, to take part in competitive sports, knowledge assessments, tests, following the promises of success if you are better, faster, and richer.
The mainstream understanding of success is being more than others.
This belief is the basis of human development in recent millennia (fueled by science, education, religions, esoterics and the overall social environment).
Many of the crises and challenges we face – wars, intolerance, genocide, ecological catastrophe, mass extinction of species, social inequality, violence are a result of the narrative of Superiority, and the same is the case for many of the unhealthy behaviors: consumerism, entitlement, conformity and materialism.