The Garden Club London

In an interview promoting their new book, On Kindness, authors Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips were asked:

There seems to be this idea that during difficult economic times like this one, people are more inclined to be kind to each other. What’s your take on that notion?

To which they responded:

‘When Adam and I set out to write the book, of course, we had absolutely no idea that we were going to be publishing it in the middle of a global financial meltdown. Pushing the book out into the current situation has been fascinating because there’s clearly a great deal of moral questioning going on and a lot of anxiety about the mentalities that have been encouraged over the last quarter-century: this whole “greed is good” and “me first” and the kind of triumphalism that has accompanied capitalism.’

So what do you think people?