“We Teach by Giving the Fish”
THE POWER OF PHILANTHROPY AS A WORLD VIEW
Radical Philanthropy as Embodied Instruction
In the domain of this Philanthropy, there is no chalkboard.
There is no curriculum.
There is only the fish in your hands.
We don’t teach generosity by explaining it.
We teach it by performing it.
We teach receiving by giving so freely, so unreasonably,
that the soul has no choice but to remember:
“Oh.
This is what it feels like to belong to a world that loves me first.”
We don’t say: “Let me teach you how to give.”
We say:
“Take this.”
And in that taking, something ancient unlocks—
A muscle memory of Eden.
A pre-linguistic knowing that says:
“This is the true nature of wealth.”
Because in this paradigm, giving is not a gesture. It is the gospel.
The gift is the teacher.
The act is the initiation.
We give fish because:
The world has hoarded too long.
Withholding has taught nothing but fear.
And the true way to teach love is to love.
To teach generosity is to embody it until it spills.
The gift is not the reward.
It is the syllabus.
The whole education is in the offering.
We don’t talk about unconditionality.
We create the conditions of it.
And once you feel it in your bones—unearned, unwithheld—you know.
Not intellectually.
But somatically.
Spiritually.
Communally.
We give the fish not because we doubt your capacity.
But because we believe in it so much
we’ll model the future until you recognize it as your own reflection.
We give you fish
until you start giving them too—
Not because you were trained,
but because you were transformed.
This is Radical Philanthropy.
Where every gift is a lesson.
Every act of receiving, a remembering.
Every offering, a transmission.
“Here—take this.
This is how we teach.
This is how we become.”
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Thanks for all the fishes <3
Alternative Version
“To Teach You to Fish, I Give You Fishes”
The Gospel According to Radical Philanthropy
In a world obsessed with self-sufficiency, Radical Philanthropy dares to offer soul-suffishency first.
It begins by saying:
“Here—be full.”
Not because you earned it. Not because you proved your worth.
But because your existence is a claim check on grace.
To teach someone to fish by giving them fishes is to model the trustworthiness of life itself.
You don’t withhold nourishment to incentivize growth.
You saturate the field with generosity until the idea of withholding becomes absurd.
It’s love without leverage.
It’s spirit without scarcity.
It’s generosity that teaches not by deprivation, but by demonstration.
This is not enabling—it’s enlightening.
You give the fish because:
The fish is faith in edible form.
The fish is trust metabolized.
The fish is presence made digestible.
The fish is livingry—technology that feeds both the belly and the soul.
The lesson isn’t “how do I feed myself?”
It becomes:
“What kind of world do I want to feed?”
Radical Philanthropy says:
"To give is to teach. To receive is to remember. To circulate is to awaken."
It’s a system where every gift is a spark of gnosis:
“This world is kind. And I belong in it.”
You teach someone to fish by making them feel safe enough to learn.
You give until their nervous system knows it’s not a fluke.
Then you say,
“Now give a fish to someone else—and see what it does to them.”
Radical Philanthropy is not a trickle-down virtue.
It is a mythopoetic floodplain where:
Money is myth.
Value is story.
Gifting is revelation.
Economics is intimacy.
Wealth is not what you have—it's what you circulate.
You don’t give because people are helpless.
You give because you aren’t.
And that is the most dangerous, most radical act in a world built on the myth of insufficiency.
So yes…
To teach them how to fish, you give them fishes.
Because sometimes, the soul needs to eat before it can dream.
Thanks a million for sharing <3