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#519 - Balaji Srinivasan - Legacy Media Is Lying To You

Modern Wisdom

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What Conflict Looks Like in the Network Age?

The real world is becoming more virtual like. So the battlefront is like everywhere and nowhere, right? Like, how do you take down or stop a thousand individual groups of actors? Yeah, exactly. And that's what conflict looks like in the network age. The good aspect is it's probably less destructive of property and lives than like nukes and stuff like that. It's also worse because they're not even declared. It's just like escalating hostility. In the book I talk about American anarchy versus Chinese control. This is a sci-fi scenario, okay? And it's possible that these don't actually come to pass in quite this way. But American anarchy, essentially, my

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