Today we must understand a fundamental fact about the world we live in: humanity has become completely interconnected and interdependent. This did not happen yesterday. The process has been unfolding for at least the past hundred years, and it began to become especially evident around the time of the First World War.

Since then, the connections between people, countries, economies, and societies have only intensified. The world has become one integral system. However, although we are objectively interconnected, we do not recognize it and we do not behave accordingly. Each of us still wants to live separately, to go our own way, and to think solely about our own benefit.

The problem is that we do not have a natural inner ability to perceive this global system. A person cannot instinctively feel the needs of all humanity or calculate the benefit of everyone in each of his actions. Our nature is egoistic. In other words, we desire to enjoy at the expense of others and the world. Therefore, when we discover that the world is interconnected, we simply try to ignore this fact. We behave as if it does not exist because we do not know what to do with it.

However, the problem does not disappear. Evolution continues to push humanity forward whether we like it or not. Human society is developing in the direction of becoming increasingly integral and mutually dependent. Since we resist such an evolutionary trajectory, we experience crises that constantly deepen. For a long time these crises seemed manageable. We saw problems in culture, education, family life, rising divorce rates, suicide, drugs, and a general feeling of helplessness. Yet as long as these problems did not directly threaten our economic stability, society learned to live with them.

When crisis directly affects our livelihood, then we are forced to take notice. Whether it is the collapse of........

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