Biography

Hello, I am 29, I served in the Royal New Zealand Navy as an Electronic Technician, and while I remain interested in being a part of the solution, I regrettably came to the conclusion that my intuitions would be stifled in an organization that is still trying to find it's feet in a "transformed world", and after departing the role, for the past three years, i have researched very broadly, the world, the human condition, and technology, without vacation.

In the 'The Future of Societal-Military Relations' Panel, with Professor Rory Medcalf, he poses a question at the 55~ minute mark:

(paraphrased)
"how do we reconcile the dichotomy between preparing the population immediately for a transformed world, national service, rapid social mobilization on the one hand, and on the other hand, seeing a lack of awareness, or expectation from society, that a small professional government apparatus will take care of all eventualities"

Transparency.

This answer, to me, seems obvious, as one who is acutely aware, and personally grappling with the same issue, from a point of view that is not carrying the same debt that your institutions know yourselves by, must abide, or metabolize.

Transparency in conversations about what "the West" stands for, and a continual rigorous conversation about what drives those who "stand" otherwise inclined.

Is it enough to believe in freedom? how deep will complexes like Anduril and Palantir need to peer into the patterns of a population to anticipate what emerges? how much of the authoritarian playbook can you build around the west under the veil of private sector shells? what determines what remains current as "currency" in this flux of nuts bolts environment and organism? for the failures in onboarding and inspiring movements to revitalize the spirit of it, how much corruption and distortion will be necessary in order to make up for the lack of engagement from the economic industrial base? how can any of this game be justified if it is a billion people now and two billion tomorrow, where we subject factory farms to imprisonment and torture of entire species and lineages, ever expanding, because our felt meaning demands ever expanding industrial base to contend with an "adversary" who does the same?

The great powers are not enemies, they are scarred memory complexes, who are yet unknown to themselves, born of a failure in bearing, and now more importantly, clash in a resultant failure of communication.

Everyone who would suggest themselves author in this space, who would inspire movement or change, will only be heard if bearing scars from discussing the evolution of the human identity in the global arena of all eschatologies, and the West most of all, holds the responsibility of managing what emerges next, with advancing technology, access to information, evolution of ideas, and genetic engineering; never has there been more capacity for shamanic expansion than now, and never has there been more capable surveillance to make it insecure, is it probably for the best? most will maintain the control group in this experiment.

So, how do you cultivate trust? it's not about onboarding people through modules that outline enemies to prepare for, it's about honesty, starkly and relentlessly illuminating all aspects of your own paradigm, all paradigms that inspire you, and all paradigms that incentivize you.

The task at hand, to my mind, is to know all uninvited attempts at shaping our minds.

And when i see governments and militaries have honest open conversations about how humans are programmed, I will know them as allies, at the next frontier.

(Obviously corruption and accountability is a very nuanced topic with regard to military and black operations, but there is far more distortion than necessary in our institutions, and if people knew them more intimately, an adversary would have a much harder time dividing us, though i doubt that all "western" leaders are interested in fueling "unities" at this point, given the opportunity to rise up against conscription etc (it's complicated, I have a lot more to say but this was just an initial intuition I had while watching, thanks for reading))