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I’m beginning to slowly recognize the full extent to which the culture wars are being fought with the seriousness, strategizing, purposes, and resources of real wars. The worst mistake you can make is to be out in public social media imagining it is just a metaphor.
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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 Killing is obsolete means to do that, like printing on paper.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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“War is a trial of moral and physical forces by means of the latter... In the last analysis it is at moral, not physical strength that all military action is directed.” ~Clausewitz Social networks cut out the need for physical force to attack your enemy’s morale.
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This is 100% “on the money” especially the insight that killing is obsolete, although this statement should be modified to “mass killing”. Open question: is a focus on moral warfare / information warfare a substitute or precursor to traditional armed conflict?
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Killing is obsolete not just because it’s cheaper but because it inspires the enemy to become aware of the assault and then resist. If you can effectively bring the enemy under your “will” without inspiring any response or counter-attack this is ideal. Violence undermines this.
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