Thinking about Wretchard’s comment that the worldly Mr Moore, he is larger at the equator than the poles, speaks without thinking. On a prior thread I was commenting on the need for Junior Officers to submit their tactical innovations to the review of their Seniors. That form of discipline, the ability to pause, reflect and then act as in OODA, is a cultural behavior. It is congruent with the value system of Capitalism and Weber’s Protestant Ethic. It is Northern European and shared by other highly productive and adaptable cultures. As such it is seen as a threat by the highly emotional and individualistic value system championed by Mr Moore and the Left. Individualistic may be the wrong term. Particularistic comes to mind. As Hofstedder showed the revolutionary process first atomizes society and then leaves the individual naked before the Totalitarian state. Note that leaders and creators of the Revolution such as Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin were in their personal focus and discipline almost Victorian.