Benjamin Radd
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first heard Jul 2025
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So kinetic is uh when I refer to kinetic, I mean using actual physical memes, bombs, missiles, tanks, um, soldiers, that type of thing.
And it's less now and it's more now moving towards other forms where it you can now destabilize a government or a system of government or a society using
a server farm and twenty people sitting in a room thousands of miles away and you don't necessarily need
Weapons to do that, where information becomes weaponized, where digital tools become weaponized.
And that's far different than anything we saw in the 20th century.
So I think that the rise of the internet in the late, you know, beginning late 1990s through the 2000s, we've seen now this become industrialized at scale.
And I think the threat comes now from the ability of re of countries and regimes to destabilize and interfere with others.
In a way that they simply couldn't do.
years ago and now you don't even need to fund it massively to do that.
It's basically warfare on the cheap.
One of the things that's been evident to us, especially since the 2016 elections here in the United States, is this idea that we live in a post-truth society.
And with so much information available to everybody on every platform, through every means and channel, there is now no monopoly on objective truth or fact.
And so with that comes the ability to distort, to propagandize, to mislead, to misinform.
And people do this to aggregate power, to bring power to themselves.
And so when we live in a world where everyone thinks they know everything or they are afraid that they don't know enough, you have a constant state of tension and anxiety.
And people are uncertain about their place in society.
There's a you know a wealth gap comes into play.
And with that, you feel like there's threats or perceived threats or conspiracies around every corner.
And this is why I think lies and misinformation and conspiracy theories take hold in times like.
This, when people are anxious, frightened, uncertain about their place in society, about what's coming next.
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