When everything is failing, what makes people show up for each other?

By: Cole Hanson

Outlets: Minnesota Reformer

Published: March 12, 2026

Words: 1,126

Last Updated: 4 months, 3 weeks ago

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It is not love to my neighbour — whom I often do not know at all — which induces me to seize a pail of water and to rush towards his house when I see it on fire; it is a far wider, even though more vague feeling or instinct of human solidarity and sociability which moves me.

– Peter Kropotkin: “Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution,” 1902

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