Is the world going to be okay?
Time：2011-10-17
Secretary General of Zheng Weining Charity Foundation
Mr. Liang Shuming, known as the last Confucian, had a conversation in his later years with Aikai, a professor at the University of Chicago, which was later collected into the book "Will the World Be Alright".
Nowadays, in this noisy and chaotic era, the old order is collapsing, no matter in the East, West, South or North. Many people have begun to ask from the bottom of their hearts: Will the world be alright?
Will the world be good?This is an era of business, if everyone becomes a businessman, so all industries become business, healthcare, education, public services ......, all are profit maximization, the whole society will be cancerous. The sins of the media that are filled with eyeballs are too numerous to mention. We know very well that everything to money has come to the end of the road.
People began to pay attention to the well-being and interests of the public. Thus, there was a call for the public good.
The term "public welfare" only appeared after the May Fourth Movement, which means "public interest". The term "public interest" only appeared after the May Fourth Movement, meaning "public good", and "public welfare" is its abbreviation. Western textbooks say: public interest is a study of practice.
The so-called modern public welfare is the public welfare that everyone participates in, no matter it is individual or collective, people participate in the public welfare through various public welfare activities, public welfare funds, public welfare websites and other ways, through direct participation, donations and other ways to participate in the public welfare.People aspire to improve society through the public good, to stop the deterioration of social culture day by day, and to realize the correction and rescue of society. Can the modern public good achieve this goal?
Will the world be a better place? I pose this question to the wise, and the answer is: hard to say. I pose this question to the strong, and the answer is: too much thinking. I pose this question to those around me, and the answer is: I haven't thought about it.Will the world be better? I pose this question to publicists.
The publicist said: it is to make the world better, so I start from myself, from the small things around me, do as much as I can, and then let more people come together to do it, I believe that in this way the world will be better.
Do small things with big love. This is a famous quote from Mother Teresa. Many public welfare organizations and people also take this as their motto, all in the hope that the world will be better, day by day.Will the world be good?
The public interest people have been answering with their own actions, and Jing Daily has also answered with the launch of "Public Interest Weekly". Will the world be better?
A question for you too.