Connection, Wealth, Health & Evolution

     This morning on CBC radio's "The Current", social psychologist Paul Piff reviewed research that consistently shows how the wealthy tend to be disconnected from ordinary folks, tend to intellectualize (rather than empathize with) human suffering, and give a lower proportion of their wealth to charity than average folk. Wealth appears to act as a buffer - wall, armor, blockage - between the wealthy & reality.
     Yet isn't up-to-date accurate information about what's going on in society, preferably globally - connection - highly valued by astute business people, politicians, talk-show hosts etc? Isn't the ability to quickly fill a need in society - interbeing - the critical feature of successful start-up companies? Don't companies that "loose touch" with what's current & relevant, quickly become irrelevant & bankrupt?
     Isn't poor communication - with adjacent cells in an organism; between mind & body; between individuals in a couple, family or country; between nations, etc, etc, - at all levels of existence - pathological?

     Prioritizing or achieving great wealth & power seems to impede normal human evolution - food for thought in a culture obsessed with the "rich & famous".

     "... it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God."

     See also: http://www.johnlovas.com/2013/05/healing-central-goal-of-life.html
     and: http://mindfulnessforeveryone.blogspot.ca/2012/08/162-cheating.html

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