> If you believe that the long view matters, ask yourself: what will carry forward these ideas after you and I have left the stage? Multi-generational thinking

> If you believe that the long view matters, ask yourself: what will carry forward these ideas after you and I have left the stage? Multi-generational thinking is, after all, a multi-generational endeavour. So the argument is that to preserve a tradition of long term thinking, rituals would enable the propagation of a community that shares similar goals.