Whenever you hear people talk about war usually you think of two nations or groups with arms fighting each other until one side gives up and the other takes over the side that lost, however this form of warfare is dying out. Nations no longer fight nations with bullets and guns because with the invention of nukes and individual grunts gaining an upward trend of killing power, a war between two big nations becomes a war that ends all nations. Instead a new form of warfare has taken its place, instead of bullets and guns as the weapons it is now information and ideas. Information warfare.
There are two primary methods of warfare that utilizes information warfare. One is invading the opposing nation's media and academics and beginning to spread your ideas and information to counter the popular information and ideas of the opposing nation. For the sake of writing I'll shorten "information and ideas" to "meme." As your nation's meme starts to take hold and shape the new generation this generation now begins to uprise and fight the old generation. The new meme fights the old meme through civil unrest, people protest for rights, for change, etc. This process begins chipping away the nation's original meme, the foundation of the country begins to be replaced with that of another by the one that initiated this war. And as time moves on eventually that nation starts opening up to the one that began this war, and over time the opposing nation eventually disappears and the nation that initiated the war has won. It has not taken any territory of resources yet now controls all of its opposing nation's resources and territory. Now take this and expand upon it further, instead now apply it to the whole world. This is globalization.
Globalization is one big information war, the first of its kind. For the first time in human history one nation may be able to control the whole world simply by word of tongue and the exchange of information. What nation has initiated globalization? I won't answer this but I assume we all know who is responsible.
The second method of information warfare is proxy wars. What happens when a nation refuses to open itself up to memes other than its own? How can you combat an enemy with impenetrable defenses? Simple, you get the enemy to dismantle the defenses for you. You must begin igniting civil unrest via funding various political groups. The political groups grow in power, they begin fighting first with words but eventually with guns. The unrest usually stays contained if there is a competent government, but the government is both the water to douse the flame and the wick to start it. A simple assassination or coup dtat and then all hell breaks loose. The civil war starts and this is when you make your move. You either begin supporting one rebel group with a leader in cahoots with your government who you get to create a new government that is purely your puppet, or you move in and establish your own. Once peace is restored and the puppet government is in place you once again just took control of an entire nation without ever firing a single shot.
Now of course this has been happening all throughout human history. Information war is not exactly new but it has evolved considerably with the invention of the Internet. Information is so easily accessible and so easily exchangeable that the Internet has ignited this new global information war. Memes are so easy to create and propagate that information war is so trivial to conduct literally one smart enough person could do it.
But how do you propagate memes on the Internet when the Internet itself is so abstract and, ironically, disconnected? Simple. When you want a lot of cows you don't run around trying to find them, feed a bunch of random dispersed ones, and hope they breed. Instead you get them to come to you, cage them, and then they breed.
This is what many popular social sites like Reddit, tumblr, Facebook, Twitter, and etc are. They are big pens designed to entrap people and spread memes useful to whatever political entity needs it for. This is where half-truths are propagated. Only a little information is ever given to the people in this pen on an issue which usually leads to one, and only one, conclusion which is agreed upon and spread amongst the whole pen, and those who disagree are quickly put down and ignored. These half-truths become memes that spread to other pens until it becomes the agreed upon "truth" and if you disagree you are put down, ignored, and insulted.
This is the ultimate weapon of information warfare. To create a meme that displaces all other memes to the warring nation until the whole world becomes his because the whole world will agree with him that the world is his.
This is how the world ultimately ends, with "truth." The world ends and the warring nation becomes the victor of a socially, idealistically, and informationally dead husk of a world because only one truth exists with no others.
World War 3 is happening right in front of us. If action is not taken it will mean the end of humanity.
Isaac Cox
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Asher Flores
If multiple words somehow make a proposition completely invalid then that should practically make language itself invalid.
If one word triggers you so intensely you've obviously not mentally matured beyond five years old.
Mason Hill
Well at least you didn't post "magick"
William Ross
And? Again if words trigger you, you are the mental equivalent of a five year old and/or SJW.
Hunter Campbell
You do know it is actually possible for anons to simply not like your thread as opposed to being "triggered" by it?
Nicholas Wood
Is this how you think you attracted readers?
Xavier Sanchez
You never stated what was bad about anything I posted aside from screaming about how many of "X" words were contained in it.
Not to mention I think you're actually samefagging now which is adorable.
Lincoln Scott
Attacking enemy morale has always been a fundamental concept in conventional war. I think you're a bit confused though, war features violence. There is no violence in the exchange of ideas. It's more like cultural competition. But what you say might be true it's a matter of degree when competition for power turns into competition for survival.
