Antonio Galdo frames this book as a meditation on love and our need for connection with others, anchored in Aristotle's insight that "no one can be happy alone."
Altruism is wired into us from childhood—in humans and animals alike. Yet for decades we have built our lives around the self, ignoring the energy that flows through a community in genuine interaction. The economic crisis now shows us that selfishness fails as a tool for progress and shared well-being.
Galdo offers diverse stories and situations where altruism and human connection take center stage: in how we design cities, run public transport, live and share spaces, tend urban gardens. He explores it in how we work and exchange ideas too.
Wherever this method of sharing and altruism is put into practice, it yields remarkable results—not only in solving operational and economic crises, but chiefly in raising people's quality of life. Is it utopian? Galdo asks. Surely it is the dream of a new civilization.
We might answer: it is an ancient method—one Jesus Christ proposed two thousand years ago.
Rita Massi, 2013