Comments | kucheekybadkuya: "The barrier to change is not too little caring; it is too much complexity."

kucheekybadkuya

"The barrier to change is not too little caring; it is too much complexity."

Jul 12, 2007 21:08

Happy birthday to distilled and palpable, and early birthday wishes to chappy-pill (a few hours shy of July 13 at the time of writing)! I hope all of you are in good spirits ♥

( And maybe you do care in some ways. Will you take the time to read and absorb this though? )

bill gates, speech, philanthropy, ideals, birthday

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dystopianday July 12 2007, 14:05:52 UTC

When you told me that pretty figurines > alcohol on the worthwhile human endeavours graph, you didn't much like it when I replied that donating to charity > figurines, did you? I didn't much like saying it, but it had to be said, even if our donations end up light and our figurine shelves heavy.
Kudos to Bill for pointing out what's really important, even if only a little good will come of it, and I guess there's that little Bill and Melinda Gates foundation thing too, lol.

I met Melinda Gates once. My mother was trying to secure funding to manufacture a herbal remedy that was billed to miraculously cure all diseases.
Melinda threw us out on our asses, and she made the right decision - but my normally quite strong-willed mom getting hoodwinked by a charismatic Native American witch doctor is a story for another day. :nuts

kucheekybadkuya July 12 2007, 16:29:05 UTC

The idea of giving money to people that need it more than I do over buying things to please myself isn't something I'll always like - this is true for most people, otherwise there'd be many more Mother Theresas than the average working Joe. I won't be in a hurry to remind people being charitable is more worthwhile than their new golf sets. I've never pretended to be noble or altruistic.

Having a steady capacity for care and concern with no self-interest attached - that's important to me. How visibly it's expressed doesn't matter. This much I might have learned from my mom, who's so remarkably sensible about the "good" things she does it's easy to mistake her refusal to indulge any doe-eyed children who beg (who most of the time turn out to be tools of syndicates using them to rake in thousands a day, much love for Malaysia again) as callousness.

...I'm really glad the richest man in the world is Bill Gates. Even if IE is a piece of shit.Alternative medicine - I'm afraid the first associations that come to mind are the number of ( ... )

tsundere July 12 2007, 16:25:27 UTC

XD Thanksss

kucheekybadkuya July 12 2007, 16:29:43 UTC

You're most welcome *pets Ikkaku's shiny head*