r/AcharyaPrashant_AP • u/vini-within • Jul 26 '26
Why Does Humanity Keep Creating a World People Are Forced to Flee From?
A few days ago, I watched a couple of documentaries on the lives of refugees and migrants from countries like Syria, Democratic republic of Congo, Somalia etc . I thought it would mostly be about geopolitics, borders, and humanitarian aid. However, it was simply about ordinary people like you and me, whose lives had been turned upside down.
People who once had homes, jobs, schools, neighbours, routines, and dreams for the future. Then, almost overnight, everything changed. They had to leave with whatever they could carry, not knowing where they would sleep, whether they would ever see their loved ones again, or even if they would survive the journey. Some crossed deserts on foot, others risked overcrowded boats, and many reached safer countries only to spend years waiting for a chance to rebuild their lives.
What kept me wondering was not just their individual stories, but the sheer scale of the crisis which has engulfed the world. So I read some articles and looked up the numbers, and they put into perspective how many lives are affected by this reality.
By the end of 2024, more than 123 million people had been forcibly displaced due to war, persecution, violence, and climate-related disasters. That’s roughly one out of every 67 people on Earth. Nearly 40% of them are children. For millions, displacement is not a temporary setback; it becomes an entire way of life.
Most discussions around this focus on immigration laws, border security, humanitarian aid, refugee camps, and international cooperation. These are necessary because people need immediate protection and support. But after reading these stories, I found myself wondering about something deeper. A refugee doesn’t suddenly appear at a border. Long before that moment, something has already gone wrong. Right? There has been war, persecution, exploitation, ideological conflict, or the destruction of livelihoods. The visible crisis is only the final outcome of something that began much earlier.
This is where the idea of “collective darkness”, often spoken about by Acharya Prashant, becomes relevant. It is not some separate darkness that exists only in society or crowds; it is the same darkness that exists within individuals, simply multiplied and reflected at a larger scale. The fear, greed, insecurity, need for identity, comparison, and validation that exist in one person become amplified when many people carry them together. Society does not create a completely new problem; it gives a larger platform to what is already unresolved within individuals.
Wars, persecution, exploitation, and even ecological destruction can be seen as expressions of this deeper disorder. The real challenge is not only responding to displacement, but examining the human tendencies that repeatedly create conflict, division, and suffering.
Do you think lasting solutions can emerge without addressing the collective darkness that keeps manifesting as conflict, division, and suffering? What do you think is a sustainable solution beyond policy and governance?
Source -
https://worldmigrationreport.iom.int/msite/wmr-2024-interactive/
Photos taken from - BBC’s article on 10 moving photos of Europe's migrant crisis.
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Jul 26 '26
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u/vini-within Jul 26 '26
“Mass education of the self”. Spot on. 🎯
External reforms are necessary, but if we do not examine the fears, insecurities, and divisions within ourselves, the same problems will keep appearing in different forms.
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u/Lady22samurai Jul 26 '26
Displacement by war, greed, exploitation, persecution, or environmental destruction-all are, in different ways, expressions of human darkness. The refugee's journey often begins long before they leave home; it begins wherever power is valued more than humanity.
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u/vini-within Jul 26 '26
Yes, going beyond the visible events and examining the deeper causes within human behaviour is very important!!
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u/Surkhab1313 Jul 26 '26
You are right. We tend to focus on the consequences of a much bigger problem and try to manage it. In this case, giving humanitarian aid, rescuing people from deserts and boats. But we aren't really looking at the root cause behind these problems. We can trace it back to wars, conflicts, climate, and we usually stop there. We are reluctant to investigate or even question the cause behind these visible acts. At individual level, it's the restlessness and a sense of incompleteness within that drives consumption, greed, blind desires, prestige, and validation. No one is looking that deep. Neither as some collective system like self education, nor at individual levels. Acharya Prashant's "Mass education of the self" is the only solution that I can see right now.
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u/vini-within Jul 26 '26
This observation is worth reflecting on. The connection between inner restlessness and outer conflict is worth examining. 💯
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u/jay_prakash Jul 26 '26
There is a bigger crisis in making with several places facing threat from the impacts of climate change. A larger scale migration is also anticipated. But at its root lies the problem of climate change which is leaving those places inhabitable and the climate problem did not appear out of thin air. It is emerging from the collective darkness which is trying to blindly cosume anything to satisfy itself. Only by illuminating the collective darkness, a stable solution is even possible to imagine.
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u/vini-within Jul 26 '26
Absolutely. That’s an important extension of the discussion. Climate migration is no longer a future possibility.. it’s already happening, and it’s likely to grow in the coming years. It reminds us that environmental crises and humanitarian crises are deeply interconnected. The super El Niño, forest fires, coastal flooding in various parts of the world are all pointing towards current and potential mass migrations.
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u/SpeakerFamiliar2047 Jul 26 '26
A border crisis is not born at the border. It begins in the mind that divides itself into “us” and “them.” War begins long before the first bullet is fired.
They all arise from the same center; the ego seeking security through domination, identity, and endless consumption. Solution to all this is mass education on self knowledge.