Claim. The coming era is one of interdependence, mutual prosperity, and universally shared values; the era of self-assertion will pass, and the ideal social form mirrors the cooperative organ-structure of a single body.
Elaboration. “When the time comes the era of self-assertion will pass away, and we will enter into a new era … the world of interdependence, mutual prosperity and universally shared values” (2.2. The society of interdependence, mutual prosperity and universally shared values, 24-298, 1969.8.31). The body analogy supplies the mechanism: “Does the left eye work in unison with the right eye or not? This depicts mutual prosperity. Every part of the body is living for one purpose, and this is how every human faculty works” (ibid, 24-300, 1969.8.31). The ideal disposes of zero-sum competition: “the success of one person would be the success of everyone and the joy of one person would be the joy of everyone” (18-102, 1967.5.28). The implication: SMM’s social ideal is organismic rather than contractarian — relationships of mutual flourishing succeed precisely where atomistic competition fails to generate happiness even for the winners.