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In a sufficiently advanced civilization, warfare becomes stochastic, invisible. Your enemy no longer has to attack you outright; he can simply increase your probability of death.
Releasing violent criminals, placing incompetent people in lifesaving medical roles, allowing public infrastructure to decay to dangerous levels, importing fighting-aged men who hate you.
This is what war looks like now: a bunch of local news headlines all around the globe, hundreds of seemingly disconnected tragedies every week. These events are in fact connected; you are in fact in an existential struggle; your ranks are being attacked from all sides, at all times, everywhere.
You are not an atomized, doomscrolling individual inundated with unfortunate news stories; you are a combatant at war
For the past six years I have been telling others that it is my fixed opinion that:
“World War Three wil be fought t determine those peoples and nations that wil be free to choose to not become Moslem.”
Yes, we are in a war. Those who have no religion see all religions as equivalents. So, to the non-religious, the Presbyterians, Buddhists, Zoroastrians, Baptists, Shintos, and Moslems are all equivalent.
But only the Moslems believe that, if you do not submit and convert, they have religious permission to kill you, enslave you, rape your wife or daughter, and if they want to be generous, to let you live amongst them (but without any outward sign of your religion) if you pay them a 25% income tax for the privilege to not be killed/enslaved/raped, etc.
Yes. At war. A la “The Matrix”.
Unfortunately, for all the insight this work by the Wachowski brothers provides us for these times, they themselves have fallen prey to the “reality-is-what-I-choose-it-to-be” mentality. Ironic.
Good observation.