Sat 26 July
Peace & Ecology Festival
St Luke's Church (bombed out church)
Top of Bold St, Liverpool
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So Much For Selfishness
If you listened to some commentators, all that motivates humanity is self interest. Anything which acknowledges other motivations other than greed and self promotion are scoffed at as ludicrously naive.
I can't help but feel some pity for people who hold such a cynical world view. It must be horrible to live in a world where you can only view other people as competitors at best, or aggressors at worst.
Thankfully, I don't see the world that way. It might well be easy to find examples of greed, self interest or even horrific aggression, but I find many more examples of the exact opposite - people going out of their way to help somebody even though there is absolutely no benefit to themselves.
Like the person who handed in a friend's mobile phone when it was lost at Parr Street recently. Not just an altruistic act, but an anonymous one too. If we are motivated by greed and self interest, this mobile phone would have been an opportunity for profit. Yet it was handed in - as these things invariably are in such circumstances.
I'm reminded of the goodness in people all the time. A friend of mine hasn't been too well of late. The response when seeking advice from strangers across the internet who will never meet me has been simply overwhelming. For no benefit, and at much cost to their own time, people have been hurling helpful advice at me.
One professional even offered, without prompting, to send me a load of DVD's free of charge - even though selling such DVD's is a core part of her business.
The cynics can propound their theories of self motivation with whatever intellectual might they can muster. Sadly for them, the generosity of ordinary people continues to disprove them daily.
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