Politics is just the name we give to all the mechanisms by which we sort out and distribute power in our societies. Who does and doesn’t get power, who gets to tell who what to do, etc.

This is a genuinely life-or-death concept, and for those that are engaged with it, sometimes an overridingly powerful priority that can govern their behavior. This is just … true.

At any rate, the tools of the information age have opened it up as a front for warfare, so that’s what we’re seeing. We’ve essentially been “at war” for years now, it’s just that attacks are usually only executed with sufficient culpable deniability, because the consequences of escalating to an actual hot war are utterly terrifying for everyone with more than two brain cells. That’s my working hypothesis anyway.

That’s all.