War 2.0
Wars are no longer waged on the ground. Or at least not just there. Conquering Invasions are not necessary when what you need to conquer is the mind . Inflicting human losses via bullets is so counterproductive. Dead people can't contribute to the monetization of online content, after all. Corpses can't be groomed online nor harvested for profit , you see. Now, battles are waged in the ethereal realm of the internet. It is there where ideas spawn, linger, are nurtured, get amplified , and most importantly, morph into radicalization. The decadence of traditional media (with the disintegration of its grip on the collective conscience), has given way to this new (and dynamically fluent) status quo: people get their daily dose of information from the internet. They interact with each other, and experience an increasingly broader share of their daily lives there. Physical interaction no longer exists. The public square is now dead. And so is the mall . For all the wacky talk