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Desmond Tutu - Find Your ‘Bing’

When Desmond Tutu starts talking you may not have a clue where he’s headed this time ...untill he get’s there. Then all of a sudden his enlightened brilliance puts a cheek to cheek smile on your face. And may just touch a chord. In this case, no matter how small a role you play. You are significant!

If you have the time, watch the entire one hour closing session of the economic forum. With Desmond Tutu, John Bryant and Pekka Himanen

Tutu’s input in the complete ‘Believing in the Dignity of All’ session summarized:
Adam being created from Eve is a story about how we complement eachother. We are interdependent as people and therefore we are family. We live in a world that’s connected in so many ways. What happens on one side also effects the other side. What happens to you happens to me. We are family. That’s why the entire world is experiencing the economic and environmental problems. In a family we live according to a family ethic. We don’t ask the baby about it’s contribution to the family budget and give him accordingly. In the ethic of family this is the rule:

From each according to their ability
To each according to their needs

But in modern day society there’s cutthroat competition. Succes is what we strive for. While we should be striving for compassion. We have seemed to ask : ‘is it profitable’, god is saying that what we should have been asking is ‘is it right’. When we are at heavens gates, god won’t ask how much you’ve prayed or gone to church. He will ask ‘did you give water to the thirsty, did you clothe the naked, did you feed the hungry?’

We live in a moral universe. There is no way in which injustice and oppression will have the last word! You will have to account for your actions. You’ve been created for family, for togetherness, as brother and sister. Where are your brother and your sister?

At 35 minutes John Bryant, Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Operation Hope, USA; Young Global Leader starts talking. Great stuff. Pekka Himanen, Philosopher, Helsinki Institute of Information Technology (HIIT), Finland; Young Global Leader, also has a few things to add.

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