Tigerhawk Does Not Understand Warfare
Tigerhawk offers a compelling read, but then moves into a flawed understanding of what should come next. The core of this misunderstanding is that he does not understand superempowered individuals and, as a result, warfare. This embracing of nationalism is indicative of those lacking a framework.
As individuals are progressively empowered, which is to say progressively accentuated as humans, large scale collective movements – like nationalism – die. This is the divergent nature of multiple empowered decision cycles. This is what is termed “a sapping of national will”. The only way to force the millions of decision cycles into one, once residual nationalism dissipates, is to become a police state.
Instead, as described in Brave New War, a better option is to scale down the amount of decision cycles involved. Let warfare, as it has for hundreds of years, define the state.
Empowerment is inversely proportional to the size of the collective. It is time our state structures reflected that.
-Shlok
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