Executive M-Capture

Canonical definition

The condition in which an Individual occupying an executive level of formal institutional authority is M-captured, that is, operating with an integrated valuation in which PM is the dominant component, and uses institutional levers to raise per-transaction PM-load and transaction frequency across the entire governed population. Executive M-Capture operates through five institutional channels: extraction-favourable regulation (reshaping the legal architecture to lower friction of extraction and raise friction of contribution); status-elevation of extraction pathways (directing state honours, media, and appointments toward extraction-derived figures); suppression of Knowledge Patch dissemination (restricting, defunding, or capturing the educational, journalistic, and academic channels through which AIM Vocabulary propagates); propaganda apparatus (institutionalising the Confabulation infrastructure to produce Reciprocity narratives at scale); and narrative-authority capture (the above-threshold counterpart to the Leadership Compression Principle, in which the executive's expressed Beliefs receive disproportionate Bayesian weight due to office-attached PM-valuation). Executive M-Capture is the principal accelerant of cumulative PM in human history and the principal mechanism by which long-build societies cross the supercriticality threshold within historically compressed timescales (years to decades rather than centuries). Institutional defences against Executive M-Capture, term limits, separation of powers, judicial independence, free press, antitrust enforcement against media concentration, civil-service protections, are the principal Subcriticality Maintenance mechanisms operating at the executive scale.