Scott Mann

And I don't know how that ends, but right now it's the only place to go for anything involving truth, I think, are these long-form interviews.

It's crazy.

And I think institutions the same way.

You know, institutions are, I can tell you during Pineapple Express, and I'm not alone in this, there are several volunteer groups that have told me similar things.

I got calls from the chairman's office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a special advisor to Kamala Harris, several congressional leaders, all asking for Pineapple Express to get out their favored Afghan.

Now, these are institutions within the United States government that are doing this, calling the cell phone of a frigging retired SF dude that's been a playwright for 10 years.

I'm not exactly your top pick for personnel recovery.

But that's what was happening.

And I think that's continuing to happen.

I think if you look at Ukraine, if you look at Haiti, if you look at what happened in Gaza, anytime now you see a noncombatant evacuation or a mass personnel emergency, you see these veterans groups rushing into the fray.

And there are these pre-illuminated networks now that are getting all this shit done.

And they're tied into these apparatuses on the ground.

I've never seen anything like it.

but I think it is here to stay.

I think you're gonna see now these networks, these bottom-up networks doing amazing things to fill the gaps when nobody else is coming.

And going back to your original question of what's that gonna look like at a community level?

What can individuals do?

I can't speak to the very specifics, but what I can say is I think you'll see those same networks rise up as long as the comms stay in place.

that you saw in Afghanistan, that you'll see these just really organic networks that are both formal and informal working together at light speed to get stuff done.

Why not connect them now?