by Tom Burghardt
[globalresearch.ca] Prussian
military theorist Carl von Clausewitz once famously wrote that "war is
the continuation of politics by other means." A century later, radical
French philosopher Michel Foucault turned Clausewitz on his head and
declared that "politics is the continuation of war by other means."
In our topsy-turvy world where truth and
lies coexist equally and sociopathic business elites reign supreme, it
would hardly be a stretch to theorize that cyber war is the
continuation of parapolitical crime by other means.
Through the Wormhole
In Speed and Politics, cultural
theorist Paul Virilio argued that "history progresses at the speed of
its weapons systems." With electronic communications now blanketing the
globe, it was only a matter of time before our political masters,
(temporarily) outflanked by the subversive uses to which new media lend
themselves, would deploy what Virilio called the "integral accident"
(9/11 being one of many examples) and gin-up entirely new categories of
threats, "Cyber Pearl Harbor" comes to mind, from which of course, they
would "save us."
That the revolving door connecting the
military and the corporations who service war making is a
highly-profitable redoubt for those involved, has been analyzed here at
great length. (more on globalresearch.ca)
