Make Pirates Great Again?
Wanted: Positive Deviants
Your neighbors. We want them, we take them.
Your rights. Not for you. We take them.
Your oil. We want it all. We take it.
Your country. We take it.
Today’s U.S. actions are not accidental. ICE at home. Military pressure and oil seizures around Venezuela. Strategic moves toward places like Greenland.
This is piracy.
It reflects how centralized power systems, what Buckminster Fuller called the GRUNCH of Giants, use legal, military, and economic force to control resources and influence.
Fuller warned that the world is not run by governments, but by vast, invisible systems of corporations, finance, and resource control. He called this the GRUNCH, the Gross Universal Cash Heist, where wealth, energy, and power are quietly extracted from people and planet, scarcity is manufactured, while responsibility and accountability disappears.
The Giants are not just villains with faces.
They are systems that grew so large they no longer serve humanity, only their systems interests.
Fuller’s message was blunt. Humanity is not failing because we lack resources. We are failing because we have allowed giant systems to control them.
The future depends on whether we keep feeding the Giants or redesign the system entirely.
This is where the meaning of pirate vs. piracy splits.
There is a difference between piracy and being a pirate.
Piracy is what empires do when theft is dressed in flags and law.
Piracy is extraction with paperwork.
Piracy is taking while calling it order.
Piracy says, we deserve this more than you.
Piracy hides behind borders, banks, and bombs.
That is not serving all of life’s best interests.
That is monopoly with muscle.
Being a pirate is something else entirely.
Buckminster Fuller used the term Great Pirates to describe people who learn how nature really works and use that knowledge to redesign human systems.
They are not cons or thieves.
They are ethical navigators.
They are positive deviants.
Instead of fighting giants head on, they outthink them. They understand the sense of nature, flows of energy, money, and information and redirect them toward shared benefit.
Great Pirates do not rely on violence or politics.
Their tool is design and an intuitive instinct attuned to earth’s DNA*.
They make monopolies obsolete by creating systems that are more efficient, more humane, and harder to control.
Where giants hoard, pirates circulate.
Where giants dominate, pirates innovate.
Where giants demand obedience, pirates rely on literacy in systems, flows, and consequences.
A Great Pirate does not overthrow the Giant.
They make it irrelevant.
They build something lighter, faster, and fairer.
Something that works so well the old system collapses under its own weight.
This is why the word pirate had to be poisoned.
We have been taught that pirate means bad.
That is not history. It is empire branding.
The word pirate was used to label anyone who disrupted monopolies. Many so called pirates were escaped slaves, exploited sailors, and outsiders who refused to serve violent trade systems.
Some of the earliest democratic practices at sea came from pirate crews. Shared decision making. Equal pay. Mutual aid.
They were not enemies of order.
They were enemies of rigged order.
History remembers them as criminals not because they lacked ethics, but because they challenged power.
So when we hear the word pirate, it is worth asking:
Who was really stealing, and from whom?
When a system takes your labor, your land, and your future, is that order?
Or is it piracy with better branding?
And when someone breaks an unjust rule to build a system that actually works, is that theft?
Or is that navigation?
The age we are entering does not need more conquerors.
It needs sailors who can read the stars and refuse to sail in circles for the benefit of Giants.
Progress does not come from taking the world.
It comes from learning…
how not to steal it from ourselves.
*Exploring Earth’s DNA as living metaphor
When we speak of Earth’s DNA, we are not talking about molecules under a microscope nor a genetic claim.
We are talking about pattern memory.
Earth’s DNA is the set of instructions that has been running for billions of years, long before human law, long before markets, long before borders. It is the intelligence of self-organization, regeneration, balance, and adaptation.
It is the way rivers find the most efficient path without a blueprint. The way forests share nutrients through underground networks. The way reefs build complexity by cooperation, not command. The way life recycles everything and wastes nothing.
Earth’s DNA is encoded in cycles, not hierarchies. In feedback loops, not top-down control. In resilience, not endless growth.
It favors diversity over uniformity. Relationship over extraction. Sufficiency over accumulation.
To be attuned to Earth’s DNA is to recognize that systems thrive when they align with these principles. When they do not, they collapse. Not as punishment, but as correction.
Great Pirates sense this instinctively.
They design in harmony with natural rhythms rather than against them. They read energy the way sailors read wind and tide. They sense where culture, like water, wants to and needs to flow.
Earth’s DNA does not reward domination.
It rewards coherence.
It does not optimize for profit.
It optimizes for continuity of life.
When human systems break from this code, they become brittle. They hoard. They harden. They extract until they fracture.
Great Pirates intervene before collapse.
They do not fight the system directly.
They introduce designs that restore circulation, feedback, and balance.
This is why their work feels intuitive rather than ideological.
They are not inventing new laws.
They are remembering old ones.
Earth’s DNA is not something we own.
It is something we belong to.
And when design listens to that deeper code,
systems stop stealing from the future…
and start participating in it.
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