strange fruit
Too tired to develop this thought fully, but what if it turns out that the growing potence of technologically empowered terrorism and systems disruption represents a democratization of mutual assured destruction, and so ends up creating a kind of long nervous peace?
posted by Chris Bray @ 2:06 AM
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I don't think that balance can really emerge until most sides in the conflict have a sufficient stake in the successful maintenance of infrastructure... in other words, until the "non-state actors" are sufficiently tied to the networks that their hands are bound by them as well.
By then, other non-state actors will have emerged...
The way things are headed -- and I'm talking many Friedmans from now -- I can see the emergence of a world in which we all just constantly scare the shit out of each other with how much destructive power a small group can have. I don't think it's about infrastructure stakes so much as it will be about how easy it will be to die or sink into Lord of the Flies. When the choice boils down to order or death...
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