5GW: War Without Consent
All are the targets and the operators simultaneously.
This makes for an Original Sin aspect of 5GW in that every single individual is participating in the combat with or without their consent. All are the targets and the operators simultaneously. Schrödinger’s Soldier.
One of the reasons I started writing was to share how I approach certain problems or situations with the hope of helping others find their own ways out of their own personal hells.
This is one topic that I need to write about 👇
Now that 5th Generation Warfare (5GW) is commonplace, it’s time to talk about what you will need in order to survive and thrive the ‘combat’ of this evolution of warfare.
Bear in mind this war is WAR, just like any other. There will be casualties, destruction of property and livelihood, and there will be collateral damage.
The side with:
the most resources
reliable logistics & effective management
highest adaptability
honest assessment of the environment
the will to fight
the intent to succeed
will win this war.
5th Generation Warfare may be warfare of a higher technological age, but it is still a war of attrition. 5GW may involve less casualty of the physical space (on its face) but it involves more casualty of the psychological, emotional, philosophical, and the spiritual. You may be curious, how? How would these casualties be accomplished? How are there more casualties than in warfare of earlier generations?
The imposition of costs. And the breadth and depth of those costs.
The Costs
By weighing down an individual with a mountain of costs, the individual has less resources to dedicate towards the acquisition and accumulation of information. What do these costs look like?
— ⌚Time Cost: overload the individual with tasks that soak up time throughout the day. Make information difficult to differentiate between real & fake by interlacing fake stories with morsels of truth, but leading to a conclusion that the individual WANTS to believe. This seeds the Brandolini Effect in bad actors’ favor.
— 📉 Economic Cost: weigh down the individual with ever increasing difficulty to fund a desirable or comfortable lifestyle. Keep The People ever-competing, and ever unsatisfied with their social status. This will contribute to increasing Time Cost as well as increasing consumption, often for goods that the individual does not actually need (let alone want).
Increasing Economic Cost can be successfully deployed through currency debasement, swelling of regulatory bodies & doctrines (increasing the price of goods & services), and an unholy matrimony of both former approaches by removing meritocracy and replacing it with DEI strategies.
— 💥Energy Cost: fatigue the individual, and effectively starve The People of the willingness to challenge dictates. Producing the two prior costs frankly exhausts the individual; more time required to make more money to pay off more costs. Less time to observe, process, and reflect which are requirements for critical thinking (and living in accordance with reality).
— ✍ Psychological Cost: weigh down the individual with heavy Time Cost and Economic Cost and the psychological health of the individual can begin to become vulnerable. The individual will struggle to find time to engage in activities that are necessary for holistic health such as hobbies, passions, fitness training, and family formation. Diminishing psychological health due to heavy Psychological Costs feeds back on its own problem, as well as the others, making it more difficult to alleviate.
— 👁🗨 Spiritual & Philosophical Cost: with all of the aforementioned costs, the individual no longer has the capacity to effectively implement or contemplate matters of the spiritual or philosophical. The individual must know WHY they hold their beliefs in order to not only understand them (and themselves) but have the confidence to stand by their beliefs when the moment calls upon them to do so.
Gaining this level of awareness typically requires Time. Which beckons the ability to loose the chains of their daily life. Some have the capability to do so while dealing with these Life Costs, but unfortunately, most do not. We will discuss methods to loosen these chains.
When the individual does not have enough resources to fight in 5th Generation Warfare they cannot deduce The Truth from fiction, so they rely on the path of least resistance. What provides this path?
Emotion.
Bumper Rails
Emotion can act as a lubricant for processing and action. The problem is that emotion will also block aspects of critical thinking, which can hinder proper processing in order to streamline straight to action.
Making the emotionally charged individual weighed-down with costs – what I call a ‘rabid goldfish’. Lacking the resources required to filter information adequately these individuals are directed throughout the pond they call ‘Life’ by taking the bait of the next emotionally charged headline or falling in-line with the next crusade of the Zeitgeist. Not realizing they have been swimming in circles, in their own filth, and never actually accomplishing anything.
Casualties of 5GW
By now I’m sure you have begun to deduce who the casualties of 5GW are…
These casualties of 5GW are those who have been duped by suggestive nudging and conditioning.
🔽The Nudged
don’t become casualties, however, until they realize they have been duped. The Nudged require time to ‘recover’ from the realization of their being led astray, needing to process how this was accomplished. Oftentimes the most inquisitive of The Nudged will take a longer recovery period as they sift back through their history for evidence of other times in their past that they may have been led astray without knowing. Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!
⏬The Shattered
fall into depths of depression or complete dissociation upon piercing the Veil of Truth. Having their understanding of the world fractured can have deep and implicative effects on an individual. Our understanding of our place in the world relies upon our view of our world. The Shattered are a more extreme version of The Nudged. Their recovery can take much longer than The Nudged, and their rehabilitation will require the processing that The Nudged engage in. However, The Shattered require a lengthy time of complete dissociation to allow their psyche and soul to settle down and acquire clarity. Strong opinions loosely held; for a rigid position in a purely dynamic existence is the wrong kind of persistence.
Other participants will include the
❔Usefully Ignorant
participants on our battlefield. There will be some overlap with the ‘useful idiots’ phraseology in popular circulation today.
These individuals make up the largest percentage of the rabid goldfish population mentioned earlier. They are easily steerable, blissfully ignorant. If you aren’t paying for the product, you are the product.
Now… the Usefully Ignorant are often misidentified as non-participatory innocents in this war. Like civilians caught up in a firefight just outside their bedroom window. However, they are more aptly comparable to unwitting soldiers or future weapons – this is why in the blockbuster story The Matrix allows for Agents to ‘hop’ into the body of a non-playable character (NPC). These individuals can become your enemy or ally at the drop of a hat. This makes for an Original Sin aspect of 5GW in that every single individual is participating in the combat with or without their consent. All are the targets and the operators simultaneously. All it takes is the right trigger to make someone into the next keyboard warrior, mewling blue-haired blow-hard, or school shooter. Schrödinger’s Soldier.
*A tact clearly appreciated by the Federal Bureau of Investigations in producing and spooling-up active shooters.
There will be casualties of life in this form of warfare. 5GW encompasses all individual aspects of war, from the shedding of blood on the battlefield to the very minds of the populace back home. Influencing the ways that a large group of people think and reason can allow for the steering of economic behavior and the predicting of future reason and decision-making. Making each civilian on the home front a target of equal value to the civilian in enemy territory. It’s not ‘propaganda’, it’s marketing for the government.
Individuals will lose their way of life, and some will lose their very lives themselves. But lives will also be lost economically, as behavior outside of the Zeitgeist can not only result in loss of employment but can also result in entire shifts of an economy. Where whole industries are impacted and some companies go out of business. That ultimately means that there will be loss of life through bloodshed as steering the behavior of a population will result in the steering of culture and political ideology, which can influence the war activity of a nation.
From our vantage point we can see that every single soul of a nation is grounds to become a casualty of this form of warfare. The casualties are far reaching, diverse, dynamic, and overwhelming.
Casualty Control
Okay. Now that we have discussed this aspect of the reality of our situation that we find ourselves in, contending with 5GW. Let’s look to the future. How do we avoid becoming a casualty in such complicated and chaotic times?
🦾 Do we ‘grind it out’?
🧘♂️ Do we meditate?
🔆 Do we manifest?
We seek out individual security and and promote exceptionalism. In order to establish both, discipline is required.
We have to begin with the costs that are most within our reach. For example, that could be making adjustments towards eating more natural foods, or shaving off time from our TV consumption, phone time, or socializing in order to get a more proper volume of sleep each night. Whichever requires the smallest effort to implement; that is our first step. We want to make a change that allows us to get in reps, of sticking to a discipline that invites minimal resistance. Work hard if you want to beat your head against a wall. Work smart if you want to climb over the wall.
Each of these tasks we know would be in our best interests, but we decide to sacrifice our sleep quality or volume for the sake of ‘fun’ or ‘work’. Such justifications steal from tomorrow. This is playing on credit or BNPL in the game of life. When we steal from tomorrow we are not investing, we are siphoning the capacity of the unseen day before the sun can even rise. Making sure we start the next day at a deficit. A recipe for diminished future performance is a recipe for failure.
Making such adjustments as those listed above provide us with more individual security as we accumulate the disciplines like fortifying our health. Strengthening our individual position. Which can provide us with ever increasing freedoms from stressors so that we possess a bandwidth with which we can begin to chase exceptionalism. This can take the form of investing time into understanding more about improving physical fitness training, or learning how to meditate, or contributing more time to a new hobby like painting, writing, or woodworking. This can also include freeing up time to date properly, allowing for ourselves to experience intimate human interaction and form loving relationships is an absolute necessity.
Make the time. Take 5 mins on the way to work to just be present where you are. Appreciate getting to be outside in the sunlight. Enjoy the rebelliousness of standing in the rain while everyone else hides away from a little water. Your situation can always get worse than where you are now, appreciating that it is not can lift a massive weight. This is comparable to a psychological and spiritual fitness exercise. It will fortify one against getting too high strung which increases likelihood for poor decision-making, reduced cognition, burnout, and anxiety.
Securing our own positions together is how we resist becoming casualties to 5GW.
Making sure we improve control over our emotions and we are not acting hastily, nor reactively, is how we resist becoming casualties of 5GW.
Staying vigilant and persistently improving our understanding of the world around us is how we resist becoming casualties of 5GW.
Staying vigilant and continually working to improve our understandings of ourselves helps us become resistant to pitfalls of 5GW.
Strengthening our individual bodies will support our mind and vice versa, this is how we resist becoming casualties of 5GW.
We all play big roles on this battlefield. The smallest of moves, magnified tens of millions of times, make for very large outcomes. Let’s make sure we play a part in producing good outcomes.