After reading the post on forever wars, one could conclude that the third root cause of war is missing:
The accumulating hoarding behavior expressed by the bourgeoisie.
Accumulation is not a disease; it is the symptom of a conditioned mind running ideological software
The Replaceable Object of Desire: Human beings are not biologically hardwired to hoard capital; they are conditioned to maximize whatever their belief system values.
The Capitalist Golem: Accumulates wealth, market share, and monopolistic control.
The Crusader Golem: Accumulates religious glory, conquered relics, and spiritual merit.
The Imperial Golem: Accumulates geographic territory, physical resources, and vassal states.
The object of obsession changes, but the underlying mechanical failure—the bird-brain completely identifying with a fabricated system (Root Cause 1)—remains identical.
The common denominator is not the object being accumulated. The common denominator is the conditioned mind identifying with a belief system and pursuing success within it. Thus accumulation is not a third root cause.
Instead, accumulation is one of the most important expressions of the first root cause. Becoming the best in the group by accumulating the most of the highest valued ideas within the belief system.
The Catalyst, Not the Root If you destroy capitalism tomorrow but fail to cure the underlying identification and distraction, the herd will simply install a new belief system. A communist, feudal, or theocratic Leviathan will still centralize power, reach its own physical limits, and eventually require an external "forever war" to vent its internal pressure. Capitalism does not cause war on its own; it is merely the current, highly efficient iteration of the disease that allows the concentration of power to reach critical mass.
Root Cause 1 (Identification) is the combustion of the fuel, and Root Cause 2 (Distraction) is the failing cooling system. Endless accumulation is the lethal heat and friction generated when the engine is run at the redline for too long. That friction is exactly what eventually detonates the valves all over the place, but it is the outcome of the mechanical failure, not the origin.
You could write it as:
Root Cause 1: Conditioned mind identifies with belief system
↓
Defines what is valuable
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Seeks expansion of that value
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Accumulation
(power, money, status, followers, territory, etc.)
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Root Cause 2: Distraction preventing awareness of that conditioning.
Everything else is an effect of the 2 root causes:
- imperialism,
- oligarchy,
- polarization,
- dictatorship,
becomes an outcome of those two mechanisms operating over time.
Note that Golemism also solves this apparent third root cause, that does exist in large parts of the west, because it simply redistributes the accumulated capital:
Too much capital = too much power
In the West there are a lot of believers unconsciously believing in the capitalistic belief. It allows them to hoard. They could just as well be conditioned to focus on the afterlife or be conditioned that sharing everything like houses, tools, husbands etc. is a normal and entertaining thing. These believers could also try to learn what is happening in their minds when they are hoarding. Seeing this hoarding system at work is a major part of the Peace Protocol.
When the European colonizers, running the early capitalist accumulation script, encountered indigenous populations running a communal sharing script, the societal hardware crashed. The Europeans interpreted communal use as theft purely because their conditioning made them physically incapable of comprehending a society without property hoarding. It perfectly illustrates how Root Cause 1 dictates reality for the bird-brain, leading directly to violence when two incompatible operating systems collide.