I think these are effective & moving because they speak to who we are at our core...once you strip away all the bullsh*t that builds up with Red/Blue - Capitalist/Marxist- Straight/Gay - Pro Life/Abortion - etc./etc. - who I am loves people...but we have to spend time, distracted & playing defense to the assaults upon what would otherwise be a caring, serving culture where we truly have each others backs...
...but lines have been drawn & positions entrenched.
Those assaults come because a number of people, at their cores, aren't people who love people. They are people who see other people as property. As things to be exploited for their own ends. If you strip away the bullsh*t, they will still be narcissistic, selfish, sociopathic, non-introspective A-holes looking out only for #1. I would also suspect that 80-90% of the population fall into this category. As such I do not "love people" - I know what people are (Wild panicky animals. ).
I can love a person. I will never again be able to love people. People can only become good through acknowledging something greater than themselves, and allowing that to modify their behavior. They become good only when they are empathetic enough to understand you do not steal because you might be caught and punished, but because that action would hurt others. They can only become good when they can be introspective and honest enough with themselves to see their own failings.
I enjoyed the video, but found it.. dunno. Just a little too obvious in its attempts to pull at heart strings, and a little too insincere and muddled about its message? (spoilers ahead)
A story about an Angel (or Christ himself?) that can see all ends, and help the world with a handful of change, doesn't seem to relate much to the day to day doings of Human beings. If the message of the film is simply that Angels exist, or that God is watching over you and the smallest things can be bent to serve his will, then sure I am fine with it -but it seemed to be trying to go for more. The interaction with the boy seems to suggest that normal flesh and blood humans could do as much with as little effort. Change the world with a pocketful of change. (or less than 1/100th as much if you want to take the boys symbolic donation at face value..) and the liberal "easiness" of it grated on me a bit.
Attend this concert and change the world!
Feel good! You Care because you gave $1 to a homeless man.
Angels can take a handful of change and know in advance the boy will pick up a penny and this will land his mother a job ( as if she wouldn't be seeing every help wanted sign on her own..) Angels can give payphone money to a runaway and get them to call home. Angels can mend a relationship in fifteen seconds with a flower and an apology. People CAN'T. Even when its good people interacting, its simply not that easy, and most of the time you aren't interacting with good people, but the narcissistic, selfish, sociopathic, non-introspective A-hole looking for a way to exploit your charity and kindness.
Your flower, your penny, your cup of coffee will not change the world unless God wills it to, and it will have very little to do with you if he does. I am not saying small acts of kindness are unwarranted, or unneeded in this world, only that 99.999% of the time they will not make changes to the big picture, and 80-90% of the people you do them for are INCAPABLE of appreciating them and only think "there goes another sucker" as you walk away. It takes a miracle to make anything else happen. Maybe God needs such seed money to make miracles occur, and its like buying a lottery ticket and hoping it pays off ( doesn't the Bible say something about not gambling?)
A "caring, serving culture where we truly have each others backs" is a wonderful ideal, and I think those of us who are awake to the greater powers of this realm know, at our cores, that this is the way its MEANT to be. But the reality is -- its not, and its not because of "people"