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.
