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War is probably not possible without propaganda. Wars are strategic, but people generally won't participate in mass killing or property destruction without an (invented or exaggerated) ethical justification.

The most significant cause of global insecurity are myths like good, evil, ethicality and fairness between nations, etc.

My hope is that tracking resources and making them more abundant and distributing first-party true information uniformly might help. But I don't think there will be any "real" global security without a fully integrated political framework.

Selfishness, resource limitations, poorly distributed information about resources, dated technology, racism, and myths like I mentioned above are blockers for integration.

Maybe the crux of it is that war IS the way we do geopolitical integration. If that is the case, then one fantasy alternative might be for the leaders to fight it out instead of whole societies tearing each other apart instead.



Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will -- Joseph Goebbels


What if the propaganda gets set up to keep us always in war?




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