Guardian Moral Syndrome

territorial activities - government, religion. From Systems Of Survival.

• not Agriculture - that's Commercial, despite it's core raw material being Territory

Moral rules (compare to Commercial Moral Syndrome)

• Shun trading

• Exert prowess

• Be obedient and disciplined

• Adhere to tradition

• Respect hierarchy

• Be loyal (in all directions) - possibly most important

  • some scary stats about Tribalism Homicide rates among the !Kung, Inuit, and Gebusi - concluding the same organizations that gave us hierarchies, obedience, discipline, and centralized authority - all of which the !Kung and others conspicuously lack - also gave us unbreakable loyalty as an ideal moral quality. - contra Daniel Quinn

    • Jane Jacobs source: Bruce Bower article in Feb'88 ScienceNews

    • I found http://www.ncpa.org/pi/crime/pd080399f.html

      • which points to Joshua Wolf Shenk's "Guns and Roses", The Nation, June 14, 1999 (review of Mayhem: Violence as Public Entertainment, by Sissela Bok; The Dark Side of the Man: Tracing the Origins of Male Violence, by Michael Ghiglieri; Lost Boys: Why Our Sons Turn Violent and How We Can Save Them, by James Garbarino; and Bad Boys, Bad Men: Confronting Antisocial Personality Disorder, by Donald Black)

• Take vengeance

• Deceive for the sake of the task

• Make rich use of Leisure

• Be ostentatious

• Dispense largesse

• Be exclusive

• Show fortitude

• Be fatalistic

• Treasure honor