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Helperman is apolitical, asexual and "a" any other controversial subject man can take different stands for. He respects and accepts people from all over the world, regardless of their beliefs and opinions. Our Helperman mission - to promote helpfulness all over the world because "helping out makes us happy" - is aimed at good people, bad people and people that disagree whether a good guy is indeed a good guy or not.

 

Helperman.org is a relativity-based theory for each and every individuals free participation in the making of a better world. Whoever helps people in its daily sorroundings a little bit more today than yesterday (= relatively), is participating in a chain of favors, one of many that circles our planet. Our plan for promoting this (there are thousands) is not more nor less important than anybody elses (but it does wear a cape!).

 

The long-term effect of all these movements for a better macro picture by increasing interhuman micro-behaviour - has and will continue to change our world to the better.

 

What if less stressed people always gave up their spot in the line to people obviously - and momentarily - more stressed?

 

Well, as time goes by, we would all wait the same amount of time but it would be portioned out to suit us better.

What if you gave up your parking-spot to someone else? Just for the fun of it. (I never have, but will try to remember to try it soon.)

 

People that can, helping people that dont expect it - is an efficient way of distributing our resources. It is also proven that it provides a short-term happiness-kick of the addictive kind to the helper and a humble feeling of gratitude to the helped... leaving that person very likely to pass it on. 

 

Helping people we dont know and not being socially indifferent are of course fundamental values for our societies. And as we grow bigger, more global, more intertwined and complex... simple values become more and more important to make sure we always take decisions based on being humans before basing them on the "general guide-lines on how to act in this given situation".

 

Governments, schools, parentes and organizations all over the world make sure to teach us that when we are young, to make sure it sticks even though we are (I think) born with a kind instinct.

 

Promoting helpfulness is as old as anything, we just put a blue cape around it... and in fairness it didnt even start out like that, it was just supposed to be a cheap PR-trick.

 

But, when seeing these peoples reactions, we realized that there was a place for someone doing something so obvious as helping people in the street.

 

If we were as helpful to each other as we should and could be, no one would care for Helperman. After all, a man in tights is not new, nor is it particularly sexy.

 

I am not particularly helpful. I am fairly lazy when it comes to running my own arrends, carrying my own stuff and mending my own dripping toilets... helping others isnt much more fun. But I am trying. Since almost accidentally being a part of Helperman.org, I am reminding myself on a daily basis to try to do a little bit more for other people.

 

I have helped out ONLY because our work with Helperman, things that have taken my time and cost my money.It is a great - and increasingly so - feeling. I must still learn more from Helperman and I am sure I will benefit from that in the short, mid and long term.

 

We are committed to growing Helperman.org.

 

All this might sound cheezy, silly and/or ridiculous. But its not. And until people tell us Helperman is as ridicolous as "Breathingman": "Cmon, we all breethe anyway", and until people stop telling us that what "He is doing is amazing", we will see a purpose for him.

 

I think that I am a fairly rational guy. I dont know if altruism is indeed that per se. Helping out might be an act of self interest for all I know. I dont care as long as its an act of selfishness far better than other kinds we hear and read about on a daily basis.

 

Modern societies offer everyone participation in ownership, decision-making and leasure time. Not long ago those were utopic ideas, envisioned by the masses and suppressed by the kings.

 

By becoming more helpful socities we have created more wealth, efficiency, life-expectancy etc. etc. than ever before.

 

Politics - I belive - should no longer be about socialism or capitalism, left or right. Its getting old all over the world. Old and dangerously "inherent", killing possible creative plans covering broad topics. It offers a rigid and "intra-related" way of thinking":

 

"Mrs X believes in lower taxes and therefore also supports death-penalty?" I dont see the link except in politics.

 

"Mr Y doesnt support unions and is therefore against same-sex marriage?"

 

They want us to make assumptions like that. To be like that. Its easier to understand us like that and if you are selling a presidential campaing like a product, having one over-all brand and a simple tagline sure makes it easier to sell to someone like that.

 

If you ask me, taking decisions as a Country shouldnt be easy, and hopefully never bound to out of context beliefs.

 

What if politics was a science? Outcome measured with rulers. Like football. People might disagree on how to do it but if we win the superbowl, our team won and everyone is happy indenpent of how we won. Period.

 

Politics is not like that. Some fans feel like winners when other fans to the same team feel like loosers.

 

So until we agree on what outcomes to measure, what the numbers should be and how to measure them to know if WE won or lost, we must unfortunately vote for what we believe (or want to believe).

 

Anyone who seems to belive more in human values, in just pragmatically making stuff better for people and in what makes sense right now - rather than in some old "handbook to decisions topic by topic based on what this guy said back then" passed on from generation to generation - is my pick.

 

In this case, I believe Obama is less tied to "what should be" and he seems more open to "what could be".

 

And I think Helperman - if he knew - would believe the same thing.

 

Obama might turn out to be a guy that talks the talk without walking the walk. Or I am wrong about supporting his assumptions. Or the size and complexity of the mission he is facing and the time he is given might turn out to drown his "Change we Need" into "Things weve seen". 

 

But id rather have that disappointment portioned out in pieces, than see him loose on Tuesday.

 

Good luck Barack Obama!

 

Oskar