 When they announce World War III, let's just say, nah. Notes from the edge of the narrative matrix. All of human civilization is being organized around a great power competition between the US centralized empire and the China-Russia-Iran bloc, and that competition stands to benefit ordinary humans in no way shape or form. It will hurt all of us and help none of us. There is no valid reason why powerful nations can't simply work together toward their mutual benefit. But what it would mean is that the US empire would have to give up its plans of total global domination, so it's not even being considered. This conflict is slated to last throughout the 21st century, and it already has a massive body count. The war in Ukraine is a direct result of this great power competition, and the economic warfare between the empire and Russia will starve many more. This is a terrible thing. Our world is being steered toward a dark and dangerous path full of impoverishment, starvation, and proxy warfare, and fraught with the possibility of nuclear exchanges. They are playing games with our lives, and because we've bought into the propaganda, we are letting them. One of the most asinine things about US foreign policy is that there are Republican wars and Democrat wars. Republicans cheer lead more for escalations against China and Iran, while Democrats cheer lead more against Russia and Syria. They each facilitate different imperial agendas. When Republicans were in power, we saw the Iran deal shredded. When Democrats took power, we saw the proxy war in Ukraine. When I criticize US warmongering against China, I get Republican morons yelling at me. And when I criticize US warmongering against Russia, I get Democrat morons. They each think their wars are better than the other side's wars, but in reality the opposing sides are an illusion. And it's all the same unified agenda, the agenda of planetary domination. They're just trained by propaganda to cheer lead more for different aspects of that agenda. How about when they announce it's time for World War III, let's all just be like, nah, we're not doing that. The prevailing worldview of our day would have you ignore the unequaled criminality of the most powerful government on Earth to focus on the far lesser criminality of governments on the other side of the globe. Friendly reminder that the prospect of revolution will become far more remote once there are bulletproof AI guided robot armies who will fire upon the locals without a moment's hesitation. Revolution has a pretty definitive use by date. The more things heat up with the Russia-China-Iran block, the more we're going to find ourselves hammered with culture war wedge issue bullshit by the social engineers of the oligarchic empire so we don't start asking inconvenient questions and making inconvenient demands. Inconvenient questions like why are we being impoverished so that you can wage a proxy war in Ukraine that we stand nothing to gain from and inconvenient demands like stop endangering all our lives with nuclear brinkmanship or we'll fucking eat you. The generation gap between Gen Z and millennials is wider than any generation gap ever. Spending their entire lives with their own culture online has made them much more different from the rest of us than we are from each other, so different we can't really even grasp it yet. They're inventing their own culture all on their own and using their own means of communication to express it. This culture is developing exponentially faster than any other in history and we're completely out of the loop with it because it's happening silently on their screens. And, I mean, thank fuck, right? It's not like we've been doing a great job holding down the fort on this planet. If ever there was a generation that needed a drastic deviation from the previous trajectory, it's this one. The world will never know peace as long as there are systems in place which financially incentivize war. Helping for peace without opposing those systems is like jumping off a cliff and hoping gravity doesn't do what it always inevitably does.