“You don’t need physical weapons these days… you can directly foment violently lethal divisions in target populations… with little more than media. And, over time, you can fan those flames until those populations start killing themselves… with their own hands.

Imagine if you could covertly convince someone to attack themselves with their own fucking hand. You don’t need guns or bombs, and you can emerge entirely free of blame or even suspicion. Absolute bliss for any enemy, whether foreign or domestic… cheap, too — far less expensive than armed conflict.

This is the situation in the modern infosphere. And yes, there is an antidote, but we’ve yet to invent it and are not yet listening to those sounding the alarm that demands we do so… 20 years ago. Or, at least, now.”

— infraheard