fschmidt wrote

Great post, Drealm.  I have been thinking a lot about these issues myself
recently.  At present, CoAlpha Brotherhood is simply inactive, not even
level 2.  The reason for this is exactly to your point, that a level 2
organization is basically useless, so why bother.  Better to just leave
CoAlpha as an inactive group gathering members until we can figure out how
to make it more like a level 4 group.

One key question is how closely tied values are to ideas.  You describe
level 4 as having "severe restrictions on ideas", but my question is can't
the restrictions be on actions as determined by values rather than be on
ideas themselves?  Most civic law regulates actions, not ideas.  But most
religions regulate ideas.  One fascinating exception is the Noahide movement
.  This is based on religion but primarily regulates action.  I have been
studying this recently to see if it may be useful to CoAlpha.  One of the 7
Noahide laws is the requirement to have and enforce laws.  I see this as
absolutely key to having any meaningful group that is more than just talk.