“Weaponize!”
“Weapons!”
“Gun!” or “bomb!”
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A few more would surely get my YouTube video demonetized.
What’s weird is that this is actually a thought process derivation; the thought went “weaponize” → “weapons” → “gun” or “bomb”.
The issue being: the thought of weapons will inevitably trace back to violence upon a quick glance. Whether you scale your weapons from ArmaLites to moltovs to airborne viruses — your thought when you hear weapon is: violence; physical pain; death.
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And then today they — not we — they, will declare we are at all-time highs of peace. We’ve gone a long time without global conflict. There’s been skirmishes of course, over in those countries near those rivers in the desert. Obama sent drones, Trump sent drones, the media will blast it loud to hear for each side, and then continue on to say that we better be careful to not disrupt our delicate balance of freedom/democracy/capitalism/peace.
So, where did we end on our scale-up? We have nukes and I know the viruses could be possible given recent indications of preparedness. Did we reach the point of mutually assured destruction and quit: because I bet we can figure out something to stop their nukes and viruses from working: of course we didn’t quit. The weaponization will have to continue, it’s what competitive weaponization must do: weapons must compete until one has lost; there cannot be a room full of winners in a competition of weaponization when the scoring is done by the losses.
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The difference between then and now, the reason we have this peace: war movies have been on television for 80 years.
You think weaponization must mean violence because war movies have taught you that war is violence and death. I have never been to war, but I promise you: war is logistics, politics, and accounting more than violence but those don’t sell as well on screen. Sell me the screenplay: 4 month castle siege until everyone inside starves, no blood. Better write a good backstory.
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“Why would you think the rock could feel? You can see clearly where the ocean has been slashing into it; has the rock moved yet?”
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