Outer Edges (Session 1)

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• 00:00:00

  Hello and welcome to the first session of Outer Edges with Nick Lyon. So this will be a two-part course where we discussed the first seminar last week. So if you haven't seen that, it's on our archive. And yeah, so without that, without saying too much, I'll pass it to Nick and Nick can begin. Okay, thanks Tony…

• 00:34:36

  That the armed citizen becomes, at the asymptote, nothing in this new country. The new calculus is purely about industrial capability, technological advance. There is at the end no consequence at all to mass mobilization of the populace in armed defense of the regime. That model, I think, has a horizon. And I mean…

• 01:05:17

  And this sort of opens the space for guerrilla and decentralized warfare and for all of these smaller entities, which then capital comes in at the last minute and provides the military robotics to hyper-enable. Right. And the F-35 is also a fantastic example of this complete bureaucratic dysfunction…

• 01:36:39

  I suspect, I don't know, it's difficult because it all goes super non-linear, doesn't that? I mean, you could have a bunch of different fragments in this Archipelago that would themself, you know, be very different. But I think that's a very important thing. I think that's a very important thing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah…

• 02:04:37

  And that's the sort of thing where you could actually, I guess, this exit itself or something like this would be, yeah. Yeah. I mean, I don't think that that's because, you know, maybe we gave everything to them. Like maybe we gave everything to them. Like maybe we gave everything to them. Like maybe we gave…

• 02:36:08

  So I do actually buy that basic argument, but there's an interesting thread in the history of the state about how – Yeah. – well into the modern era, the state didn't really have full – very full control of the territory that you would sort of think of today as the way that countries work on a map where you sort…

• 03:01:05

  It's not nothing. And actually the other thing I didn't want to totally get lost is when Adam was talking about the mercenary thing, that is also really relevant. And what's Eric Prince's thing? He keeps changing the name of his company. Obviously it used to be Blackwater, but I think they've changed the name…

• 03:35:13

  All right. Okay. Well, I'm going to go. See you guys next week. Thank you all. Yeah. Thanks, Nick. It's been great. Okay, bye-bye. How can I do? Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye.