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I think the core capital infrastructure of the US is more secure than ever from social movements as threat. Disruption is a science now.

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"Disruption" as in top-down monitoring like this oneeyedman.net/misc/social_mo

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Thoughts fleshed out a bit: Perhaps we lack the vocab to conceive of what's coming. Networked movements don't work the same way.

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Scribus interruptus. Brb.

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Back. Disruption works against anything exhibiting centralized nodes or infrastructure. Networked movements seem antifragile in this regard.

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You could argue the alt-right has already subverted by certain white supremacist and intelligence factions, for example, but I suspect...

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... the truth is there is simply nothing to subvert. No true authority, no figurehead, no power base. It's a thing unto itself.

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The main weakness of the Left so far has been its clinging to outmoded means of organization/being leftists -> lacking much organization.

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How does this relate to what we were saying before? I don't know. I suspect it's too early to say. We need to see revolutions play out.

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I think you're right in the sense that OODA loops are applicable for organized actors. However, distributed actors can still have strategy.

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In the end, the strategy is about outcomes. Will you get a white nationalist govt., or will you not? Will you subvert capitalism, or not?

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Conceptually, the OODA loop still seems relevant in that context. But maybe it's a bit flat now, in light of the added complexity.