Very good, unfortunately the people Borg is appealing to can only think in slogans and thirty-second sound bites.
It is fascinating how collectivist/socialist societies have killed off the charitable impulse (”I gave at the office”).
Same deal for culturally collectivist societies the very concept of charity is an alien western import in places like Japan, China, and India.
I’m just reading a great recent book “Shutting out the Sun,” about the recent Japanese phenomenon of boys and young men shutting themselves up in their rooms, and the concurrent “parasite singles” female phenomenon. Among other things, it describes the only people who are tending to Tokyo’s growing number of homeless are the handful of Christians.
It also goes on to speculate that Korea’s strong Christian presence may have had a good deal to do with the dynamic way they overcame their late-nineties economic shock (”asian flu”) by opening up their economy contrasted to Japan’s frozen-in-amber non-response to it’s own seventeen-years-and-counting economic doldrums.
The author’s daring to include religion his sociological speculation has brought down much flak on him in the Amazon reader reviews. section.