Culture wars are to shooting wars as ebooks to books. The goal is to efficiently gain control of territories, minds, societies. Killing is obsolete means to do that, like printing on paper. The body count is lower because that’s cheaper, not because combatants got more humane.
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Attention is territory.
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Especially because it's partially a Russian psyops proxy culture war.
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Ender's War was prophetic, but with social media instead of video games.
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As I say: Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages were really about those materials being used as weapons. And so too, the Information Age.
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Bet on a day-to-day basis the iron pot got a lot more use than the iron sword.
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