The breakdown with the single-ego scenario you depict is that, if there is but one ego and it is your own, than you cannot solve the worlds problems by solving your own. Neither can you solve your own problems by solving those of the world. If you solve your own (internal) problems, your external (the world's) problems remain; and if you solve the world's problems without solving your own, you have solved neither. What the single ego scenario really says is that the worlds problems are your own to solve. It changes responsibility, but not the necessary action.
Krishnamurti said that in order to change the world, we need to experience an instantaneous internal and external revolution. A personal revolution on its own is necessary but not sufficient to cause change in the world. Instantaneous means in the present moment, every moment, which means that only by experiencing continual revolution on an individual level and constantly acting for the collective revolution do we have any hope to truly make any lasting change in either.
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