ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at some of the film's highlights as a way of introducing the gift-giving and sacred qualities that underlie the creation of those resources of communality that appear as social capital. Moral individuals are contributors to and beneficiaries of social capital. Thomas Moore urges his patients and readers to sample the wide variety of mythologies, spiritual practices, and re-enchantment techniques in order to create for themselves a package of sacredness appropriate to their personal needs and circumstances. For Francis Fukuyama, the most significant form of social capital is spontaneous sociability. Spontaneous sociability makes loyalty, reliability, and proclivity to cooperate—which, in traditional society, are confined to long-established groups—portable, so that they work not only to maintain existing groups and associations but also to facilitate the generation of new ones. A "subset of social capital," spontaneous sociability involves "the capacity to form new associations and to cooperate within the terms of reference they establish".
