OH "The next American civil war will be fought inside Fortnite, so it won't be that bad."
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If we avoid an actual civil war, it may well be because most military age US males can't run a mile and then shoot an AR accurately. Or have drug or criminal problems that bar them from service. Plus, there's a new Netflix special on. This is fine.https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/19/pentagon-buildup-troop-recruiting-shortage-351365 …
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It's all great until the barbarian Huns show up. And then you've got to either pay them off, or find other barbarians to defend yourself with, and then it all falls apart when they realize there's nothing keeping them from just taking what they like.
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Pretty dumb of the Huns to bring guns to a dronefight
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Yes, that's the bet of the West. Whether against foreign enemies, or domestic ones, they just hope that the same automation that creates economic turmoil at home and abroad neatly solves the problem by making wars and law enforcement cost only money, rather than political will.
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I think such hopes are wrong for two reasons: 1. The harm of automation (and everything else going wrong) will make itself felt faster and stronger than the possibility of simply ignoring it via automated organized violence.
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2. Pacifist societies incapable of physically defending themselves are skittish ones, quick to surrender. I lived in Northern Spain when ETA was still kidnapping and blowing up the odd public space. The social impact of a bomb was astonishing. All fight disappeared in a moment.
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And this was in a society that had endured Europe's most violent and brutal civil war within living memory (the local parliament building still had fascist bullet holes in it). But they had no appetite for a war of attrition, and folded, and gave the Basques what they wanted.
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