Thank you, kindly!

I bet there’s some ye olde English pirate’s ditty along the lines of,

We’ll go a’roving, a ‘raping and a ‘looting,

How else can Britannia

Rule, the far off waves?’

As for the naivety front…I’ve quite often been called naive, though that’s in the context of interpersonal relations, not my grasp of cross-cultural anthropological studies and related forays into the histories of regions of the world typically written off as ‘primitive’ or even , ‘savage’, by such savants of Western civilisation as Mr Winston Churchill….

If you consider how central are concepts of balance — the understanding, (gleaned from long observation of the patterns cohering in Nature) how one state of affairs, transforms and transmutes into its opposite and the recognition that when equilibrium is not maintained (whether at the micor or macro level from the individual’s personal habits of food consumption to matters of the state, we can discern there were indeed, deeply rooted philosophical, moral and pragmatic cultural strictures relating to the control of greed and selfishness.

In fact, in many so-called primitive societies, displays of generosity, mercy and kindness on the part of the richer more powerful members, gave them more respect and authority, while being mean/selfish/greedy was a surefire path to dishonour and disgrace.

We see the absolute reversal of these values ocurring under the Western capitalist mode of social organisation, where lying and cheating in order to ‘make a killing’, came to be admired.