Margaret Levi in Noema Magazine
The keystone is generating an âexpanded community of fate.â For societies to survive and thrive, a significant proportion of their members must engage in reciprocal altruism
âOur goal is a form of farsighted reciprocal altruism in which members are willing to make costly sacrifices on behalf of those with whom they believe their fates, and their descendantsâ fates, are entwined but who may never be able to directly reciprocate.â â reminds me a lot of Bentoism, specifically the âfuture usâ square
A lot of very similar values to Unions and mutual aid, e.g. âAn injury to one is an injury to all.â
Heresthetics: using rhetoric, storytelling and strategy to redefine the situation in a way that changes the choices for a significant proportion of the populace (see also: fiction)