World War 3, as the other
“world” wars, will be evident to a certain side when the enemy side's entire
civil populace is seen to be invested in a certain conflict:
especially when some conflict becomes a highly dominant social and
political agenda among the enemy nation's lower class population.
World Wars do not just play out in between politicians and through diplomatic decisions taken by the few, but rather they involves the
masses and the masses' own ways of perceiving the conflict: it could be
trench warfare, but it could also be a war in many fronts and
settings, for the exact nature of the war will be dependent on the
masses. A “world” war is dependent on a mass movement and a popular support for the war effort, because
“world” does not imply the different nations' standing armies,
but suggests the entirety of the world's armed forces and
civilian populations.
An important factor
creating a mass-mobilized war is the effectiveness of the enemy's
propaganda. The enemy's propaganda turns lower classes into
philosophical subjects and objects through a kind of rapid education, and because
it makes them philosophical and educated the lower classes have
immense appreciation for this propaganda. The object of propaganda
is never just instruction, but also education, for the goals of
propaganda are more longer term than the immediate enlistment and
fighting in the war. Propaganda turns men and women towards
investment in fighting for abstract and lofty ideas such as “human,”
“nation” or “belief” so that they are not just ready to fight in armed war
today but in the “war of ideas” of the future. As the enemy's
philosophy is considered most threatening, the enemy's philosophical
lower classes are attacked extensively, hence a World War concerns itself
with mass-scale destruction.
Ultimately, the masses,
once “made philosophical” extensively, will themselves shape the
nature and style of war that they wish to engage in. They are not
dictated by the elites to take up arms, rather, they make these and
other decisions, for they have finally received a serious education
directed towards them, albeit that this education is dismissed as
biased propaganda by elites. And that lower class' initiative in
shaping the nature of war is precisely the true intention of the
elites: to not get their own hands and minds dirty in the war but rather see it
play out, as if automatically, among the lower classes. In World
War 3, the masses will learn to read through propaganda posters, they
will learn to understand the concepts related to a war context, their
education will be heavily influenced by the war. It is very
possible that a kind of more non-violent “cold war” will take
place, or that all “world” wars will in the future be “cold”
because the philosophical masses choose not to “weaponize”
themselves, but rather to express hostility in mass protests which
are then publicized to the enemy. After propaganda has made them
philosophical, they themselves will then develop propaganda to
support one another, and the quality and effectiveness of propaganda
will itself determine who is winning and who isn't. Propaganda
posters, books, films, plays and other such products will be the
medium of education, especially for those young ones born into
warring times and regions, and so education will be dominated by
“heavy” ideas even at the primary level. Another form of
non-violent mass mobilization is the war on a “knowledge-based
front,” such as the “space race” between USA and USSR, where
the masses participate in a war where amounts of knowledge gained
rather than territory gained become of importance, given that
propaganda has turned the masses into philosophers rather than soldiers.
