9/ Step 1: amplify natural tendency of information landscapes to pollute and undermine themselves via truth --> bullshit pathways
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10/ Step 2: Argue for a solipsistic extreme relativism denying that any basis for 'truth' is possible at all
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11/ Step 3: Accumulate hard-power advantages and wait, hoping time is your friend as world goes backwards towards 18th century chessboard
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12/ This is why, ultimately, it's futile to argue about whether Trump's shadowy links with Putin or whether Russia influenced the election
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13/ So long as you analyze things in terms of the nation-state global order, you're fitting the Surkovian narrative and playing their game
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14/ Where 'they' is not Russia, but the entire allied network of actors around the world who want to regress to a classic nation-state order
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15/ This means the actual conflict is between those who want to unwind all evolution in the global political order since roughly 1975 and..
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16/ ...Those who want to double down on it and get through to the other side of a world order solidly centered in digital, soft technologies
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17/ So not just Putin and Trump, but Bernie too, and many other leaders on the nationalist side. On the cosmo side: mainly neoliberal MNCs
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18/ "Election influence" thing is a sideshow not because undermining of liberal democratic institutions and process is not important but...
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19/ ...but because retro-nationalists don't want to undermine them back to Stone Age, only to pre-digital form where they serve hard power
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20/ Using adversary's frame is to lose before you start, so what's alt to the Surkovian frame (doesn't matter if attrib is apocryphal btw)
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21/ It is to recognize that the way battle lines are drawn, to choose a *nation* to be loyal to is to already side with Putin-Trump axis
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