territorial activities - government, religion

• not Agri Culture - 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 Tribal Ism Homi Cide 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 [Science News]

    • 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

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