The cumulative effect of social, economic, and technological change points to the inexorable shift of conservative forces rightward, as they enter the repressive phase of their life cycle. Capitalism is the political order that is designed to promote the interests of the capital owners; where “capital” is “critical capital”. The support to insiders favours the rise of a new class of aspiring feudal lords, who capitalise on their gains by concentrating land under their ownership; land which is being eroded by the spread of gigantist thinking in farming, aggressive monoculture, and hubris towards the ecosystem and its natural constraints.