Many people think that progress from evil to good will never happen, simply because they think that people are evil by nature. They think that when trying to change human society from evil to good, it is necessary first to change the individuals, because society is a sum of individuals. Many people have been trying to do this for thousands of years, but there has been no success as of yet. Why?
This is not because people do not know the principle of union, love, peace, order, and work as the best natural principle for the survival of man and all of human society – all the people of the world have known this for ages. Today there are many movements and factions that propagate love and peace. Christianity has been doing this for two thousand years through Christ’s commandment of “Love thy neighbor”. Alas, in vain. Evil still rules the world. Again, why?
Because people do not know the practical application of the principle of love. That practical application is not a matter of the individual, as many think: “work on yourself”, “get enlightened” and become good, and when all the individuals become good the whole human society will be good. It is absolutely the opposite. Society is the one that should start “working on itself” and “get enlightened”, i.e. first it should become good, and then, afterward, the individuals will become good. Considering the fact that individuals are not born good or evil, but that after birth society brings them up and educates them (manipulates them) wanting to adjust them to itself, makes them good or evil depending on whether the society is good or evil.
There is a great difference between society and the individual. Society is not only the sum of the individuals, as many people think. Society is always a system (an organization) of the division of work and work results, and it is always the system which can be good or evil. In an evil system all the individuals that make it are correspondingly evil and vice versa. It is the same in the aforementioned story about Hell and Paradise, in which Hell and Paradise are only two different systems of the survival of individuals. In Hell, the individuals were forced to struggle with each other and to do evil in order to survive, in Paradise they had to help each other and do good because a different system ruled therein.
It is the same in human society. In order to make people start to love each other, there is no need to change people, but our current social and economic evil moral norms, laws, and systems that force people to struggle against each other in order to survive. That evil can be avoided solely by changing our current social and economic laws and systems: they should be based on the righteous division of work and work results in which the individual does only one job for the benefit of the whole society, and he/she enjoys the results of work of the whole society. It is the same with the way the cells and organs of a human body function. There are no problems for human society to follow suit. It is only a question of choice. And the question of the level of development of our consciousness regarding which of the possible natural principles and systems of our life, work, and survival is better and more efficient: the principle of division, hatred, and struggle; or the principle of union, peace, order, work, equality, love, mutual help, and cooperation?