Our species, in its very rare healthy state, has a great gift for being inventive, ingenious practical idealists. As things stand, we are usually unable to employ ourselves in the exercise of our very best capacities even for enlightened self-interest. As for pure altruism, this is a condition we are so heavily inoculated against from birth that few of us ever experience it at all. For most of us, unless the current manipulators of humanity want our specific talents as fodder for the disease-machinery of Consumptive Lifestyles, we are out of luck. There are, of course, happy exceptions to this general catastrophe.
Some people find a way through and manage to be themselves, live as themselves, and give their best.
There is much to hope for in these demonstrations of individuals managing to overcome Cog World.