Thank you, this is a low-BS site overall but I did already go take some look at your site, I think you're doing good work. The site admins have my name, mail, & I'm not bouncing around any. I'm open to more privately than publicly, but I need the tripwires of pseudo-anonymity too. With a lot of what I do if you know who I am then I'm doing it wrong, so it's something of a habit too.
In your earlier post, when you said "technology -> technology" can you clarify what you meant by that? I'm not sure quite what you mean there, although I follow the earlier synopsis a bit better.
Quite frequently even today when you talk about destroying either a piece of tech, or a system that relies on it, technologists greet the idea with surprise. There are two types of surprise that come up, one is surprise at a method, the other more common one is surprise at the possibility of doing such a thing. That latter one I encounter the most. I encounter it a lot less frequently in any discussions with military people, but it still happens because everyone has a tendency to take technology for granted until it's gone. Figuring out the implications is difficult a lot of the time too, and it's taught me to be able to feel very comfortable listening to someone & then saying "I did not know that".
I think that an awful lot, and not all, but very many technocrats do not understand warfare, and very little of war. A lot of them don't understand government, or that order & anarchy can both be extraordinarily destructive when they are taken to extremes of implementation. It would be very easy for me to go off on a long, long & detailed rant about all the ways that's true, but I'll just add that it's the same problem as seen between civilians & their governments & their military in most countries. Technology people, & geeks of all flavors, can be personally abstracted from basic hygiene so I think it helps to keep in mind sometimes that their limitations in those areas can cause a wide variety of understanding problems, & military matters are part of the pile, not an exception.
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