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On War and Civil Unrest – Part 2 – Murderbots

This substack article here covers quite a lot of the current state of affairs with regard to the latest weapon that you would need to be aware of in the event of war or even just “skirmish/guerrilla” level “troubles”, namely: Drones.

Any serious conflict has now made almost all infantry obsolete if you have enough drones.

Pretty soon, it may well be which side has more murderbots to throw at the other side that wins. All the humans involved may well just become collateral damage.

Philip K Dick in one of his short stories basically had predicted an Earth where the murderbots, in all their guises, including looking like humans for some types, had essentially wiped out humanity and the story ends with one of them basically flying off to the Moon, where the last human colony exists. The murderbots can replicate themselves or build other types, so once you get one in an area… they multiply.

Add a bit of bioweapons warfare, nanobots and so on, and well… before you can hope for your AR or even sniper rifle to become useful again, you may have to wait for a really large solar flare, or the total collapse of civilisation long enough that the murderbots fall into disrepair through lack of maintenance. Of course… how you live that long, except maybe by being underground behind blast doors, Fallout style or Paranoia RPG style for those of us that are old enough to recall pen and paper roleplaying Games and the hilarious (but very murderous) Alpha Complex run by your friendly Alpha Complex Computer, is anyone’s guess.

So… along with learning terrain, map-reading and so on, you also want to learn how to hide your thermal signature (hint: An umbrella does wonders, but forget having ANY electronic devices on you at all), use your own drones and drone-making skills, and maybe, even “invent” a drone killer gun, electronics jammer and so on. Though military drones are unlikely to be stopped by anything a civilian can put together, and using such devices may well give your position away for miles.

I am not technical enough to really give you much advice beyond: Build an underground shelter you can hide in that is deep enough to survive basic bombs. And maybe do a rain-dance for hail and solar flares, as you sharpen your sword in preparation for a return to medieval times after the last automated gunpowder factories fall into disrepair.

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By G | 19 December 2024 | Posted in On War And Civil Unrest

On War and Civil Unrest – Part 1 – Human IQ

This post on Substack is worth reading: https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/yes-individual-iq-matters-in-war

In fact, his whole Substack is pretty cool. And his points in that post are absolutely worth keeping in mind.

And in case you want to take part in an really fun and funny idea that used to actually happen in the 1980s, you might want to get together with a bunch of friends and play this role playing game.

(Cheaper if you just want the PDF here)

Then you might want to make it even more entertaining by using the actual terrain you find yourself in to play it out as a LARP. That is, an actual Live Action Role Play. The way you would do this is NOT by running around with actual guns, obviously, but rather, use say your phone camera to take a picture of the “enemy”. If the person has a body part that falls exactly in the centre of a cross that is the middle of your photograph (draw a cross on your screen if you need to in some way that rubs off) then they could be considered to have been “sniped”. Or if they get in their car and you had taped a piece of paper with written on it “bomb” and they drive off, you could be considered to have achieved a kill on your enemy.

You can, of course, play this game with unsuspecting strangers without molesting anyone, as long as you don’t break any laws, you could take a picture of “enemy combatants” (say anyone wearing any item of clothing that is red) to show your friends you achieved a hit, then delete the image. Or possibly only indicate to your friends how you would avoid or engage such “enemies” by your movements. All done without acting in ways that disturb people who have better things to do than get annoyed by people running around playing at “war” (but really learning some important things about reality even as you play).

In the long-ago of 1981, this game came out called Killer that introduced Live Action RPG.

You can even buy a copy of one of the various iterations of the game here. Or find a free PDF at the archive here.

Today, you could use similar gaming principles to practice reading maps, hiking over terrain and learning how to move about in your local area with a view towards being a small unit in a civil war scenario.

Silly as the idea may sound… are you really telling me such an exercise would not be:

A) Educational, and

B) Hilarious

Because you know it would be both. So what are you waiting for? Start practicing, because learning as you play is the way you REALLY learn.

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By G | 19 December 2024 | Posted in On War And Civil Unrest, StCZA - Module 0, StCZA - Q.O.R.G.

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