SELFISHNESS

Selfishness is paradoxical; nature conspires against the achievement of its objectives. If we consider that the selfish pursues his personal welfare, we will find that selfishness is the worst way to find it. Let's see.

If every member of society finds his benefit in the most selfish possible way, the sum of these egos will be the progress of society, the welfare". That is the sentence of the fathers of capitalism.

The result was another: the fragmentation of society, where some appropriate the wealth and the work that belongs to others, and on such progress, it was the opulence of a very few and the poverty of many, the result is spiritual poverty for all and the impossibility to reach happiness.
What happened? Where was the error? Why humanity entered this alley that has fatal consequences?

The first fact is that happiness, the good living, human’s well-being, and it is necessarily a collective search. This nourishes its condition natural being, of natural member of the biosphere, of social animal. Let's see.

Planetary life survives thanks to the harmony of all its components, is what is called ecological balance, in short, it is based on the maxim: "the fate of all depends on the fate of each of its components, and luck of each one of its components depends on luck of all”.

It means that every animal, every plant has an important role in the miracle of life, its lack is a blow to life, it makes an imbalance, it affects all. It is not possible to affect an element of the biosphere without harming the rest.

It is deduced that in a society the welfare cannot be an individual task, it cannot have a good life surrounded by misery, the discomfort of individuals –necessarily- reverts above the whole society. Happiness is a social phenomenon, and to come true needs a balanced and harmonic society, a life in balance.

The pursuit of happiness in the selfish society of capitalism is a vain effort, it is to pursue the pot of gold at the base of the rainbow, and it is like searching only the happiness of a part of the body and leaves the rest.

We conclude that the only way to find the personal welfare, the good living, is fighting for the welfare of all, for the whole society, in other words, for Socialism.

This truth is known by men of good will since always, and Christ already -in his wisdom- left us the path to love one another, that is, to fight against selfishness, the only way to get what we now call the good living.

Socialism -which is the integration of society in the pursuit of their material and spiritual goals- is the only way to overcome selfishness as a solution to the challenges of existence, it is the only way to achieve happiness.

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