The world is fucked up and continues to be ever more fucked up because of the kind of wars we're already in and continue to be. Wars strategically are becoming evermore personal having long ceased to be in its state-driven "conventional format."Gary Childress wrote: ↑Mon Jan 30, 2023 1:05 am If you want that badly to be in a war, then knock yourself out. Just be aware that all of it is in your head. Or don't be. I won't be joining your folly. You'll have to wing it yourself. Just don't fuck up the world any worse than it already is.
Wars advance consistently, clandestinely into areas they've never been before due to all the invasive technologies causing armies of opinion among the citizenry with major consequent disruptions; and that's just part of it, it's effects being both internal and external to a society. We're all in that war, the media itself proves it in all its miscellaneous, often agenda based manifestations creating in its wake a war of perception in how to sift the veritable from the purposely false.
War and peace perceptions within the so-called Fourth and Fifth-Generation Warfare scenarios are now not nearly as dichotomized as they historically used to be when the state itself subsumed all power. Though non-combatant, the citizen has become a member of an army conjoining to one or another kind of perspective as programmed or preferred causing the latest generation of warfare to be the most insidious of all...a battle of mental memes.
In short, it's knocking all of us for a loop even if you can't feel or fail to acknowledge it.