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I updated this today, 14th February 2025, as it became news again. I added the entry of JD Vance on to the list, whose name was included following his nomination for US Vice President in July 2024.

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So, the weapons of war are deployed against us, within countries and they currently need not be kinetic. This was predicted: “ World War III is a guerrilla information war with no separation between military and civilian participation “ marshal McLuhan. Please notice the current tense, IS. He thought we were already at war in the 1960s.

The tide is not about to turn, the future is information warfare, millennia long information battles. McLuhan’s teachings: the technological shift is the message, it reorders our world unbeknownst to us and how we use technology, the content, it beguiles us, it is not the point. This is war waged through information, the battlefield will be defined in these terms henceforth.

This is an excellent article, and it is a clear explication of the phenomenon of information war. This will be the state of play for humanity, for maybe 1000 years until our next extension.

Our inventions control us. We do not control our inventions. Electricity usurped time and space, collapsed our world, an implosion after 1000 years of explosion and specialization of the mechanical paradigm.

Please, I have no expertise, but, I studied under Eric McLuhan and I am quite certain the premise of the medium being the message is undervalued

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