| The phrase "Me to We" brings out thoughts of | | | | We" to help cross the gap. |
| altruism and giving. It makes us think that there are | | | | Why you ask should an organization that helps kids |
| others out there we need to be thinking about too. | | | | change its slogan? Well perhaps if you read "Built to |
| It also speaks to the materialistic world around us | | | | Last" By Collins, which discusses Mission Statements |
| and helps us imagine a life with larger horizons. There | | | | for organizations and businesses you will see that Me |
| is actually an organization out there called "Me to We" | | | | and We is not an either/or situation. It should be both |
| in Canada, they help the children of the World. | | | | and all inclusive. |
| Helping the Children of the World is by far one of the | | | | If someone is all about Me, Me, Me then they fail to |
| greatest philanthropic things you can do, there can be | | | | see the WE or all of us out here. If everyone is WE, |
| no doubt about that. But, let me explain the flip side | | | | WE, WE they will too easily take away the ME inside |
| of this concept. There is a horrific hideous side to the | | | | of the individual. In that case all the ME is sacrificed |
| slogan "Me to We" let me explain. | | | | for the betterment of the whole. This causes severe |
| When I first came to their website, wow, I was | | | | civil rights violation, as the WE society takes away |
| impressed at all the wonderful things they are doing | | | | from the whole. |
| out there. I like it all and the "Me to We" is a catchy | | | | "Sometimes what is good for the one is good for |
| slogan. But then I began thinking of all the human | | | | the many" Spock |
| rights abuses that have resulted from communism | | | | Although this coincides with Ayn Rand too and many |
| and how runaway socialism moves a society towards | | | | other studies of human societies, governments and |
| communism, I was horrified. | | | | civilizations, why not also incorporate the question; |
| Indeed, I then considered how they might make a | | | | What strengthens the individual strengths the whole. |
| revision of the "Me to We" motif. You see, instead | | | | When all the whole is filled with such individuals then |
| of "Me to We" it should be "Add We to Me" | | | | the efficiency is squared. I certainly believe in helping |
| especially if they want donations and volunteers from | | | | the children of the World, but cannot support any |
| a capitalist nation. If on the other hand the non-profit | | | | organization which believes that taking away individual |
| group was trying help out in a communist country all | | | | rights to help the individual is the way to do it, that is |
| the children who were born into such a human rights | | | | hypocrisy. Communism does not work and you |
| disaster then they might use the slogan "Add Me to | | | | should not have to give up self to help others. |