![]() ![]() You will experience an enormous depth of connection with your co-workers that will amaze you. And you will experience a pure joy that will bubble up from within you. And you will be hungry, you will ignore the pain of your own injuries, you will be bitterly cold, and sleep deprived. ![]() According to what Rebecca Solnit has discovered from her extensive research regarding post-disaster behaviour, there is an extremely high probability that you would just get on and sacrificially do whatever was most needed in your immediate location, and then keep doing it, and keep on doing it. If you found yourself a survivor in a desperate situation, would you act the hero or act selfishly to look after only yourself?įew of us ever get an answer to that question. In a sense they are taking care of themselves, but a society in which they all ordinarily did this would be paradise indeed. Helping makes them feel needed and helpful. ![]() Giving and helping make them feel a part of something larger than themselves. Dallas Elvery reviews Rebecca Solnit’s 2009 book A Paradise Built in Hellįrom the voice of altruists, a paradox emerges: self-sacrifice as a two-way street. ![]()
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