Curt Doolittle

Form: Mini Essay

  • People Are *Very* Different from Each Other

    Apr 15, 2020, 7:47 PM by John Mark It is hard for us to imagine how different other people are to us. This has been the single hardest lesson for me to learn over my lifetime, I’m finally getting it and still getting more revelations about it. Even understanding the very thorough, very clear way that Curt lays out the “clusters” of humans (by personality/gender/moral instinct/moral division of labor), it is still very difficult for me to imagine actually thinking like, say, a leftist or a globalist or a “feminine-minded” person. Yet, I am confident in saying that George Soros sincerely believes he is doing the right thing in pushing for globalism & mass immigration for western nations as hard as he can. He is Jooish (feminine mind + “globalism & immigration means less likely joos will be persecuted” mindset). (Ironically, joos pushing these policies increases the likelihood of joos being persecuted, but as typical female-mind they are not introspective enough to know that.) As far as I can tell, Soros is not sitting there saying “Hahaha I am Dr. Evil!! I vill control zee vorld, just to be evil!!” He’s just acting like a typical joo. He is trying to control as much of the world as he can based on his biases and incentives. Is he – and/or others – “conspiring”? Depends on your definition of “conspiracy”. I think the point Curt is trying to make with his recent posts on this subject is that many times the masses intuit/impute intent to be evil onto powerful people who are doing things we don’t like, when in reality they are mainly being themselves (they are not like us) and acting according to their incentives (yes, often with awareness that they are “cheating” or “taking advantage”, and often genuinely believing they are right as with Soros & “true believer” leftist leaders & politicians). So Curt’s point is, “these people are largely just acting on incentives & calculating how to gain, and are getting away with it to the extent our system – and we ourselves – allow it.” So rather than focusing on imputing intent to be evil (feminine bias – similar to what leftists do when they impute evil intent onto rightwingers, cuz they are so different than us that they can’t fathom we are working toward our own incentives which are very different than theirs), let’s focus on changing the system and stopping the parasites. I don’t care how deep you go into the conspiracy rabbit hole, I care if you act with agency to stop the parasites and build/enforce a system that does not allow them to operate. I don’t care if you believe in Jesus or heaven or a pantheon of pink elephant-gods, I care if you act with agency to stop the parasites and build/enforce a system that does not sllow them to operate. And this (I’m pretty sure) is the big reason Curt gives the conspiracy-minded folks and people who are into certain religions, a hard time in some ways – because feminine-minded reactions/thinking tends to rob people of agency. It tends to rob them of the mindset necessary to build and enforce a system that crushes parasites into dust. Honestly, is anyone holding their breath for Christians or the “primary focus on conspiracies” crowd to lead and be the primary drivers of the revolution and salvation of America and the West? (There are many exceptions of course including possibly Alex Jones who seems to have a lot of balls to do what he’s done.) One challenge we have on the grassroots Right is that we have groups that try to demand that everyone else on the Right “speak their language” or they show intolerance.

    • Many Christians say “If you’re not Christian you’re not good enough.” (While Christian pastors/priests refuse to say what is necessary to save the West. Why would we follow or submit to them? It’s ludicrous. Don’t worry, Christians don’t follow through on this threat – 80% of evangelicals voted for Trump. They’ll always end up following the best leaders they can get which rarely come from their own ranks.)

    • The “alt-right” says “Talk about joos in every conversation/video, and tell everyone how Hitler was right, and provide me a sentimental religion around the wonderfulness of the white race, or you’re not good enough.”

    • Many conspiracy-focused folks say “If you don’t believe in conspiracies to the extent I do, you’re not good enough.”

    The problem is, none of these groups are providing a workable solution. We are, but because we don’t woo them in “their language” – because that would require catering to agency-reducing and/or effectiveness-reducing tendencies – their initial reaction is sometimes to reject us. No matter. High-agency men will always carry the day for the simple reason that no one else acts or solves problems. The low-agency people will always end up following the high-agency people. The challenge in getting “buy-in” to what we are proposing is that it removes all excuses. It demands agency. Proposing and understanding solutions and acting to make them happen is much harder and riskier than complaining & wishing everyone would “speak your language”. Thus, the high-agency people love what we’re doing. Often instantly, sometimes after a bit of learning. “At last, a solution I can act with agency toward!” (Something worth my agency’s efforts.) The low-agency people look for excuses to keep their excuses. We are building an army of high-agency men. (And some high-agency women too.) Join the army, or get out of our way.

  • The False Promise

    Apr 18, 2020, 3:43 PM

    —“That’s what it always comes down to, freedom from consequences. The false promise of freedom from consequences is baiting into hazard as ignoring consequences must necessarily result in destruction.”—Andrew M Gilmour

    —“Marxism is the tooth fairy of political beliefs. You can’t make a credible claim to being an adult and still believe in that nonsense.”–Noah J Revoy

    —“Surplus value cannot exist. It’s the greatest lie to ever ensnare humans.”—Andrew M Gilmour

    —“Even if something like surplus value hypothetically could exist, I think the more important point is that there is no way of verifying or falsifying such a claim. He just insists that it does exist and that it can be calculated in terms of socially necessary labor time per hour. He’s just describing the attributes of a mythical tooth fairy without providing any way of verifying it.”—Predmetsky Rosenborg

    The question is this, why should I, having collected the savings fo dozens of families, invest in more than one companies, when only one will turn a profit, without expecting a return from the one company, that will profit enough to invest in any company, despite all but one losing money?

    Or more differently, given that all industrial capitalization, organization, marketing, sales, production, and receipt of payment is speculative, would the common laborers equally risk their income by investing labor and then waiting to see if the income would be returned?

  • The False Promise

    Apr 18, 2020, 3:43 PM

    —“That’s what it always comes down to, freedom from consequences. The false promise of freedom from consequences is baiting into hazard as ignoring consequences must necessarily result in destruction.”—Andrew M Gilmour

    —“Marxism is the tooth fairy of political beliefs. You can’t make a credible claim to being an adult and still believe in that nonsense.”–Noah J Revoy

    —“Surplus value cannot exist. It’s the greatest lie to ever ensnare humans.”—Andrew M Gilmour

    —“Even if something like surplus value hypothetically could exist, I think the more important point is that there is no way of verifying or falsifying such a claim. He just insists that it does exist and that it can be calculated in terms of socially necessary labor time per hour. He’s just describing the attributes of a mythical tooth fairy without providing any way of verifying it.”—Predmetsky Rosenborg

    The question is this, why should I, having collected the savings fo dozens of families, invest in more than one companies, when only one will turn a profit, without expecting a return from the one company, that will profit enough to invest in any company, despite all but one losing money?

    Or more differently, given that all industrial capitalization, organization, marketing, sales, production, and receipt of payment is speculative, would the common laborers equally risk their income by investing labor and then waiting to see if the income would be returned?

  • Without the Militia Men Will Not Own the Commons.

    Apr 21, 2020, 7:40 AM The problem is getting the rest of the world into middle class manners, ethics, morals, and values. We can only do that if the self, the family, and the commons are equally valued and defended regardless of class. The minute you give up on your other classes you give up on the commons. The same is true for heterogeneity. Create conflict between groups and we give up on the commons, and devolve to self and family.

    —“There are more books published in Spanish in any one year than there have been in the entire history of Arab publishing.”—

    Feminine, present, experiential civilization. There are very few arab intellectuals. Those few, say some version of the same thing “we live in our emotions not in our reason, we can read but we are still illiterate, we have freedom but no discipline.” This is the problem with ritual-cultures. it’s extremely successful at solving the problem of social insecurity (mindfulness). It only solves part of the problem and amplifies the rest by making agency impossible. Same for fundamentalism in christianity: it makes wonderful citizens and families – perhaps the best in the world – and prepares people for commercial society – but at the cost of needing a parental martial empirical aristocracy to defend, rule, and govern them. One of the reasons the french lost to the english was the combination of their effeminacy and excessive faith – the same excessive effeminacy and faith that they demonstrate today. (although you have to read letters from the period prior to agincourt to see how faith-insane they were.) The hindus remain caste-and-family, on the effeminate side, and socially lazy and irresponsible – so they are wonderful people lacking the hostility of the muslims, but can’t end familial corruption endemic in the society, nor do they have the military like the west and china to enforce policy so that a non-corrupt bureaucracy can evolve. I don’t complain about the chinese and koreans other than their women are as spoiled and hyper-consumptive and civilization destroying as western women and their males are further gone than western men because they were further gone in the first place. The upper middle and lower upper classes around the world are all the same. This is because we are not lacking in competitive ability, or dependent upon equally ignorant or uncompetitive peers for information and opinion. Without the militia men WILL NOT OWN THE COMMONS. From there, everything falls apart.

  • Without the Militia Men Will Not Own the Commons.

    Apr 21, 2020, 7:40 AM The problem is getting the rest of the world into middle class manners, ethics, morals, and values. We can only do that if the self, the family, and the commons are equally valued and defended regardless of class. The minute you give up on your other classes you give up on the commons. The same is true for heterogeneity. Create conflict between groups and we give up on the commons, and devolve to self and family.

    —“There are more books published in Spanish in any one year than there have been in the entire history of Arab publishing.”—

    Feminine, present, experiential civilization. There are very few arab intellectuals. Those few, say some version of the same thing “we live in our emotions not in our reason, we can read but we are still illiterate, we have freedom but no discipline.” This is the problem with ritual-cultures. it’s extremely successful at solving the problem of social insecurity (mindfulness). It only solves part of the problem and amplifies the rest by making agency impossible. Same for fundamentalism in christianity: it makes wonderful citizens and families – perhaps the best in the world – and prepares people for commercial society – but at the cost of needing a parental martial empirical aristocracy to defend, rule, and govern them. One of the reasons the french lost to the english was the combination of their effeminacy and excessive faith – the same excessive effeminacy and faith that they demonstrate today. (although you have to read letters from the period prior to agincourt to see how faith-insane they were.) The hindus remain caste-and-family, on the effeminate side, and socially lazy and irresponsible – so they are wonderful people lacking the hostility of the muslims, but can’t end familial corruption endemic in the society, nor do they have the military like the west and china to enforce policy so that a non-corrupt bureaucracy can evolve. I don’t complain about the chinese and koreans other than their women are as spoiled and hyper-consumptive and civilization destroying as western women and their males are further gone than western men because they were further gone in the first place. The upper middle and lower upper classes around the world are all the same. This is because we are not lacking in competitive ability, or dependent upon equally ignorant or uncompetitive peers for information and opinion. Without the militia men WILL NOT OWN THE COMMONS. From there, everything falls apart.

  • What Is that Shift in The Force so To Speak?

    Apr 21, 2020, 8:13 PM Ok. I can feel ‘a disturbance in the force’ so to speak. What shift is it that I feel going on in the public? Exhaustion with the virus event? What’s going on? -RESPONSES-

    —“Threefold exhaustion most people couldn’t keep up with one facet. The medical face of the virus itself, the economic face of job security, and the conspiratorial face of the sinister mysteries”—Micah Pezdirtz

    That’s it. Let me see if I can elaborate: 1 – The people are addicted to the gated institutional narratives like cows being fed daily lots of hay and corn. They can’t step on the paddle and get their dose of the illusion of running with the herd. 2 – With multiple competing narratives, and exhaustion from all of them, they have lost incentive to do anything other than look elsewhere. 3 – With time at home and limited hyper-consumption they have time for direct experience and self reflection, and as a consequence they are ‘waking up’ to being in the MOUSE UTOPIA. Because that’s what’s been done to them. –BY JOHN MARK– By John Mark Yes.

    1. Normies experiencing loss of trust in authority/”safe” leaders/narratives. “How did it all go so horribly wrong?” Surveys show the left is more afraid of both virus & unemployment. The “blame Trump” narrative still brings the left some comfort (like a kid’s favorite blanket), but fact is the lefty cities are getting hardest hit & they can’t exactly feel their lefty leaders are doing great.

    2. Raw fear/negative emotion opens the door for people to learn/change their minds in a way they will never do outside such a situation. Case in point: 80% of Americans now view immigration as a threat. (That was not the case, not even close, a few months ago.)

    3. The virtue-signal economy collapsed overnight. The entire signaling value of “I love nonwhites, foreigners & immigrants” collapsed completely. China is a crappy place, interactions with & reliance on 3rd world low-trust shitholes have terrible consequences. Even MSM is writing articles on forcing China to pay reparations. The virtue-signalers now have no other way to signal other than to wear masks and report their neighbors for going outside. Which is way more annoying and obviously tyrannical than saying you love immigrants. The virtue-signalers are lost.

    Do not underestimate the importance of this point. The human accounting system is status and cheap virtue-signaling is the easiest way to raise one’s self-sense of status, and one’s status in the eyes of other shallow ignoramuses, who far outnumber truth-speakers (cuz of ’65 immigration act & 19th amendment). These people have had their entire status economy collapse. Think of how we feel – “We’ve been so right all along and everyone is having to kinda admit it, and all sorts of things we wanted for decades are happening!” – but in reverse…”Everything I’ve ever said/signaled I believe & support is falling apart”. And imagine being a low-agency normie or lefty, not accustomed to self-reflection or truth-seeking, possibly never having considered changing your mind on anything important, experiencing this. They feel lost. No ability to just follow the herd headlong, thoughtlessly, anymore. Like one of us right wing family men losing our wife & kids. No compass. Now add the real economy collapsing.

    1. Because lefty political leaders & grassroots just do “oppose Trump” like programmed robots, this leaves the door wide open for Trump to completely OWN the optimism/hope/”let’s re-open the economy” angle. My guess is he’s seeing more & more data come out that tons of people have it & never have symptoms which means the death rate is way lower than originally thought (just as was caught on White House hot muc today), and he’s making a calculated bet that re-opening the economy will not cause a disasterous level of virus cases/deaths. The left’s leaders are stuck being the negative bad news bearers that everyone hopes are wrong. The lefties now are in a position where they hope he’s right, and may have to admit he’s right about re-opening the economy, and already kinda have to admit he’s been right about trade and immigration. Very tough on their psyches. My wife also points out that with the daily press conferences many normies/lefties are seeing him directly, repeatedly, rather than thru the filter of lefty/normie news sources, and for some this is changing their view of him.

    2. As Micah & Curt pointed out, far less distraction. No sportsball. Celebrities seen as out of touch, provoking anger & jealousy quarantined in their expansive mansions with pool etc while millions are stuck in apartments, homes, crowded with kids, etc.

    3. People spending way more time with spouse, kids, homeschooling, etc. Along with the whole situation highlighting “what’s really important”.

    All this is results in MASSIVE COGNITIVE DISSONANCE. And feeling LOST. A result that then follows for many, is a significant amount of mind-changing and attitude/priority-shifting for NPCs/normies most of whom have never gone through it before. (Most of us on the Smart Right have gone thru it multiple times in our lives, of our own volition, as we learn.) I mean, the data shows it. Compare attitudes on immigration before and after. Huge shift. I’m not saying the lefties are all gonna start voting right wing now. But they are reeling. The normies are shifting more right/nationalist out of sheer brick wall of reality slamming the world. Institutional trust is lower than ever (in modern America). Weimar was emerging anyway, now virus (regardless of its actual seriousness as a disease, the govt reaction was very severe, making it a very serious situation). Our leadership’s handling once again ludicrously bad & out of touch & corrupt – “trillions for bankers, $1200 for you!” along with congress shoving pork into it etc. Maddening to normies who normally don’t care much or pay attention. Opportunity. Been slammed at work having to work a ton of extra hrs, but hopefully I can get a video out on it soon.

  • What Is that Shift in The Force so To Speak?

    Apr 21, 2020, 8:13 PM Ok. I can feel ‘a disturbance in the force’ so to speak. What shift is it that I feel going on in the public? Exhaustion with the virus event? What’s going on? -RESPONSES-

    —“Threefold exhaustion most people couldn’t keep up with one facet. The medical face of the virus itself, the economic face of job security, and the conspiratorial face of the sinister mysteries”—Micah Pezdirtz

    That’s it. Let me see if I can elaborate: 1 – The people are addicted to the gated institutional narratives like cows being fed daily lots of hay and corn. They can’t step on the paddle and get their dose of the illusion of running with the herd. 2 – With multiple competing narratives, and exhaustion from all of them, they have lost incentive to do anything other than look elsewhere. 3 – With time at home and limited hyper-consumption they have time for direct experience and self reflection, and as a consequence they are ‘waking up’ to being in the MOUSE UTOPIA. Because that’s what’s been done to them. –BY JOHN MARK– By John Mark Yes.

    1. Normies experiencing loss of trust in authority/”safe” leaders/narratives. “How did it all go so horribly wrong?” Surveys show the left is more afraid of both virus & unemployment. The “blame Trump” narrative still brings the left some comfort (like a kid’s favorite blanket), but fact is the lefty cities are getting hardest hit & they can’t exactly feel their lefty leaders are doing great.

    2. Raw fear/negative emotion opens the door for people to learn/change their minds in a way they will never do outside such a situation. Case in point: 80% of Americans now view immigration as a threat. (That was not the case, not even close, a few months ago.)

    3. The virtue-signal economy collapsed overnight. The entire signaling value of “I love nonwhites, foreigners & immigrants” collapsed completely. China is a crappy place, interactions with & reliance on 3rd world low-trust shitholes have terrible consequences. Even MSM is writing articles on forcing China to pay reparations. The virtue-signalers now have no other way to signal other than to wear masks and report their neighbors for going outside. Which is way more annoying and obviously tyrannical than saying you love immigrants. The virtue-signalers are lost.

    Do not underestimate the importance of this point. The human accounting system is status and cheap virtue-signaling is the easiest way to raise one’s self-sense of status, and one’s status in the eyes of other shallow ignoramuses, who far outnumber truth-speakers (cuz of ’65 immigration act & 19th amendment). These people have had their entire status economy collapse. Think of how we feel – “We’ve been so right all along and everyone is having to kinda admit it, and all sorts of things we wanted for decades are happening!” – but in reverse…”Everything I’ve ever said/signaled I believe & support is falling apart”. And imagine being a low-agency normie or lefty, not accustomed to self-reflection or truth-seeking, possibly never having considered changing your mind on anything important, experiencing this. They feel lost. No ability to just follow the herd headlong, thoughtlessly, anymore. Like one of us right wing family men losing our wife & kids. No compass. Now add the real economy collapsing.

    1. Because lefty political leaders & grassroots just do “oppose Trump” like programmed robots, this leaves the door wide open for Trump to completely OWN the optimism/hope/”let’s re-open the economy” angle. My guess is he’s seeing more & more data come out that tons of people have it & never have symptoms which means the death rate is way lower than originally thought (just as was caught on White House hot muc today), and he’s making a calculated bet that re-opening the economy will not cause a disasterous level of virus cases/deaths. The left’s leaders are stuck being the negative bad news bearers that everyone hopes are wrong. The lefties now are in a position where they hope he’s right, and may have to admit he’s right about re-opening the economy, and already kinda have to admit he’s been right about trade and immigration. Very tough on their psyches. My wife also points out that with the daily press conferences many normies/lefties are seeing him directly, repeatedly, rather than thru the filter of lefty/normie news sources, and for some this is changing their view of him.

    2. As Micah & Curt pointed out, far less distraction. No sportsball. Celebrities seen as out of touch, provoking anger & jealousy quarantined in their expansive mansions with pool etc while millions are stuck in apartments, homes, crowded with kids, etc.

    3. People spending way more time with spouse, kids, homeschooling, etc. Along with the whole situation highlighting “what’s really important”.

    All this is results in MASSIVE COGNITIVE DISSONANCE. And feeling LOST. A result that then follows for many, is a significant amount of mind-changing and attitude/priority-shifting for NPCs/normies most of whom have never gone through it before. (Most of us on the Smart Right have gone thru it multiple times in our lives, of our own volition, as we learn.) I mean, the data shows it. Compare attitudes on immigration before and after. Huge shift. I’m not saying the lefties are all gonna start voting right wing now. But they are reeling. The normies are shifting more right/nationalist out of sheer brick wall of reality slamming the world. Institutional trust is lower than ever (in modern America). Weimar was emerging anyway, now virus (regardless of its actual seriousness as a disease, the govt reaction was very severe, making it a very serious situation). Our leadership’s handling once again ludicrously bad & out of touch & corrupt – “trillions for bankers, $1200 for you!” along with congress shoving pork into it etc. Maddening to normies who normally don’t care much or pay attention. Opportunity. Been slammed at work having to work a ton of extra hrs, but hopefully I can get a video out on it soon.

  • We Differ in Priority Not in Purpose

    Apr 22, 2020, 6:21 PM My argument is that the faithful cannot abandon belief, and the rational cannot adopt faith – and that the tendency in favor of either is demonstrably genetic as well as cultural in origin. We cannot legislate belief or unbelief. So all we can do is trade. Traditionally european civilization has practiced trifunctionalism: the militiary-masculine(dominance)-political, and the commercial-judicial, and the religious-feminine(submissive)-familial. And as such we can trade loyalty to one another under natural law. The law is empirical and reciprocal and trade is the only possible means of reciprocity between the aristocratic-martial and the noble-faithful. The purpose here is to (a) remind both parties that we have always been tri-functional, and it is part of our success, (b) that the difference is priority between Pagan (heroic) martial, heathen(scientific) legal, and christian (subservient) faithful – not a difference but a difference in priority. (c) that we can trade loyalty to one another (d) that this is what we have always done. (e) and that I can only write the law that moderates dominance-force and submission-resistance with scientific law. I am a heathen(judicial-nature) first, a pagan(martial-war) second, and a christian(faith-love) third. But I am all three. Because that is my ROLE in civilization. Each of us that ‘cares’ fulfills a role in the hierarchy of the three competing groups of elites. We advance a strategy under elites of Martial-Defense, Legal-Scientific, or Faithful-Resistance 

    Six Permutations of Priority:
M=Martial .. L=Legal .... F= Faithful
M L F .... .... L F M .... .... F L M
M F L .... .... L M F .... .... F M L

    We divide the labor of our civilization, not by exclusivity but by priority of our three weapons of influence.

  • We Differ in Priority Not in Purpose

    Apr 22, 2020, 6:21 PM My argument is that the faithful cannot abandon belief, and the rational cannot adopt faith – and that the tendency in favor of either is demonstrably genetic as well as cultural in origin. We cannot legislate belief or unbelief. So all we can do is trade. Traditionally european civilization has practiced trifunctionalism: the militiary-masculine(dominance)-political, and the commercial-judicial, and the religious-feminine(submissive)-familial. And as such we can trade loyalty to one another under natural law. The law is empirical and reciprocal and trade is the only possible means of reciprocity between the aristocratic-martial and the noble-faithful. The purpose here is to (a) remind both parties that we have always been tri-functional, and it is part of our success, (b) that the difference is priority between Pagan (heroic) martial, heathen(scientific) legal, and christian (subservient) faithful – not a difference but a difference in priority. (c) that we can trade loyalty to one another (d) that this is what we have always done. (e) and that I can only write the law that moderates dominance-force and submission-resistance with scientific law. I am a heathen(judicial-nature) first, a pagan(martial-war) second, and a christian(faith-love) third. But I am all three. Because that is my ROLE in civilization. Each of us that ‘cares’ fulfills a role in the hierarchy of the three competing groups of elites. We advance a strategy under elites of Martial-Defense, Legal-Scientific, or Faithful-Resistance 

    Six Permutations of Priority:
M=Martial .. L=Legal .... F= Faithful
M L F .... .... L F M .... .... F L M
M F L .... .... L M F .... .... F M L

    We divide the labor of our civilization, not by exclusivity but by priority of our three weapons of influence.

  • The Dependence on Land and The Variation in Group Strategies

    Apr 24, 2020, 12:15 PM

    –“I was working the rather large winter garden this afternoon I have planted with my father. Thinking about the respective Peloponnesian and Delian strategies. It got me thinking about two things. Agricultural productivity / output and the concurrent effervescence of commercial activity, economic growth, and thus civilisational expansion (consider this also in a Rome vs Carthage context too). The second angle was the context of one’s own personal independence and self-sovereignty, in this sense as a landowner, either large or small scale. Be it in terms of food supply, land as a hold of value, and also as an individual / family / community area with which to defend one’s own assets. Whilst Australia and America have different cultures and expressions of “homesteading” there are some similarities too, you might call it a “dying frontier of the self-owned man”. Do you have any pointers or suggestions from a Propertarian standpoint?”— A Friend

    Yes, you have the correct insight, that I would translate as “If a man is dependent upon the land, he intuits others are also dependent upon the land, and that he cannot defend his land nor can others without collective defense of land, and collective defense by almost everyone. This is the opposite of migratory pastoralists and disaporic traders (Carthage), or diasporic usurers (Jews), or diasporic thieves(gypsies), or diasporic raiders(muslims), diasporic rent seekers(russians, mongols), but not the same as settled(germans, spartans) or diasporic producers (europeans, chinese – and what should have been hindus). That is because we specialize in different strategies and our value of territory, built capital, institutional, and cultural commons, differs by where our revenue comes from and the composition of our ‘armies’ and the strategy that these men use for control of predation (raiding), parasitism (extractive rule, usury, theft), or domestication (productive rule, settlement, common capital production.)