Me to We - A Concept Whose Time Has Come and Gone

The phrase "Me to We" brings out thoughts ofWe" to help cross the gap.
altruism and giving. It makes us think that there areWhy 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 usLast" By Collins, which discusses Mission Statements
and helps us imagine a life with larger horizons. Therefor 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 theIf someone is all about Me, Me, Me then they fail to
greatest philanthropic things you can do, there can besee the WE or all of us out here. If everyone is WE,
no doubt about that. But, let me explain the flip sideWE, WE they will too easily take away the ME inside
of this concept. There is a horrific hideous side to theof 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 wascivil rights violation, as the WE society takes away
impressed at all the wonderful things they are doingfrom 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 humanthe many" Spock
rights abuses that have resulted from communismAlthough this coincides with Ayn Rand too and many
and how runaway socialism moves a society towardsother 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 aWhat strengthens the individual strengths the whole.
revision of the "Me to We" motif. You see, insteadWhen 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 fromthe children of the World, but cannot support any
a capitalist nation. If on the other hand the non-profitorganization which believes that taking away individual
group was trying help out in a communist country allrights to help the individual is the way to do it, that is
the children who were born into such a human rightshypocrisy. Communism does not work and you
disaster then they might use the slogan "Add Me toshould not have to give up self to help others.