[TEX Video] wouldn't be a form of present STO way of thinking/acting ?

[Kios]

Just felt on that video : _http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpyc84kamhw


Description of the video

Nipun Mehta is the founder of ServiceSpace (formerly Charity Focus), an incubator of projects that works at the intersection of volunteerism, technology and gift-economy. What started as an experiment with four friends in the Silicon Valley has now grown to an global ecosystem of over 350,000 members that has delivered millions of dollars in service for free. Nipun has received many awards, including the Jefferson Award for Public Service, the President's Volunteer Service Award and Wavy Gravy's Humanitarian award. He is routinely invited to share his message of "giftivism" to wide ranging audiences, from inner city youth in Memphis to academics in London to international dignitaries at the United Nations. He serves on the advisory boards of the Seva Foundation, the Dalai Lama Foundation, and Greater Good Science Center.

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Seems to me like an interesting approach of a STO way, no ? (or like many times before I missed the "little detail" ? )

What do you think ?

[seek10]

Just felt on that video : _http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpyc84kamhw

What do you think ?

 Thank you for sharing. Very interesting, though nothing new.

Motto of Giftivism

consuption to contribution : Appreciate what you receive and pay it forward

transaction to trust : Rely on your interconnectedness

Isolation to community : cultivate the network of  gift ties

scarcity to abundance : Experience the generative power of the gratitude

last example of kid robbing  is very entertaining. so, why world is as it is despite 80% normal people. As usual blindness to pathology.

I remember seeing some hit movies under the  same concept in india.

Hero starts a movement of "help one and other should help 3 people". some girl falls for him and wants to marry, but the movement lands some pathologicals in water, who plans for killing
the hero and hero ended up killing the villians and troops of goons with magical super strength and end in Jails for nominal period, while the herion waiting for the hero to come back from jail".
You will see crying woman at the nd.

Unfortunately Movie's pleasant ending is the generosity of the script writer for the sake of the producers profits.

Many of the  internet projects like wikipedia which takes huge time started by that generosity, but soon coopted by pathologicals.

There are some decent examples in these lines in  current economy hit areas

Is it STO ?. - If One is doing this for feeling good . that won't be pure STO. May be one step towards it. But when we consider how our
false personality works, this could be a complete couter productive self deception. So many factors to consider before one can define it STS or STO and too many levels of deception exist.

Look at the mother Theresa. every body publicized her as  greatest woman in the world. So much drama went on around her, later it found to be she is just mean tool for the  Church's PR.

Do you remember email scams during early years of the  internet emails - late ninties and early 21th century . you get a email and you read and you should forward it 8 more people, else some thing bad will happen. So people loose interest in this type of thing.  That's how pathology counters this type of generosity, I think.

[Kios]

Thx for sharing your opinion