1 00:00:01,720 --> 00:00:10,760 Speaker 1: Cal Zone Media book Club book Club, book Club book Club. 2 00:00:11,760 --> 00:00:14,120 Speaker 1: It's the cool Zone Media book Club, the book club 3 00:00:14,160 --> 00:00:16,120 Speaker 1: where you don't have to do the reading because I 4 00:00:16,160 --> 00:00:19,400 Speaker 1: do the reading for you. Except this month a cool 5 00:00:19,440 --> 00:00:21,840 Speaker 1: Zone Media book Club. We're doing something a little different. 6 00:00:22,239 --> 00:00:25,759 Speaker 1: You see, we here at cool Zone Media received a 7 00:00:25,840 --> 00:00:31,000 Speaker 1: missive from the future episodes of our own podcasts from 8 00:00:31,080 --> 00:00:33,800 Speaker 1: thirty years from now from the year twenty fifty four, 9 00:00:34,920 --> 00:00:40,120 Speaker 1: and we're happy to share them with you. Welcome back 10 00:00:40,120 --> 00:00:43,160 Speaker 1: to cool Zone twenty fifty four Reports from the Dinoh War, 11 00:00:43,400 --> 00:00:46,120 Speaker 1: your weekly source for everything World War three point five, 12 00:00:46,479 --> 00:00:49,040 Speaker 1: everything from the World Civil War, or as we like 13 00:00:49,120 --> 00:00:52,760 Speaker 1: to call it, the Dinoh War. I'm your host, Margaret Kiljoy, 14 00:00:52,800 --> 00:00:55,440 Speaker 1: and this week is our once a year recap of 15 00:00:55,480 --> 00:00:57,680 Speaker 1: where we are in the year of our Lord twenty 16 00:00:57,720 --> 00:01:01,080 Speaker 1: fifty four and how we got here. Don't worry. Next 17 00:01:01,120 --> 00:01:02,720 Speaker 1: week we'll be back with all your favorite on the 18 00:01:02,720 --> 00:01:05,720 Speaker 1: ground reporting. But this week we're going to speed run 19 00:01:05,760 --> 00:01:08,840 Speaker 1: the last I don't know, ten years or so of 20 00:01:08,880 --> 00:01:12,880 Speaker 1: world history. We're two years into the Dinoh War and 21 00:01:12,959 --> 00:01:16,039 Speaker 1: it is worth understanding what got us here, or, as 22 00:01:16,120 --> 00:01:19,440 Speaker 1: General Lichterman always says, you can't know what direction you're 23 00:01:19,480 --> 00:01:21,440 Speaker 1: going to go if you don't know what direction you 24 00:01:21,480 --> 00:01:24,880 Speaker 1: were already going. But first, it wouldn't be the year 25 00:01:24,920 --> 00:01:26,920 Speaker 1: twenty fifty four if we didn't shout out our most 26 00:01:26,920 --> 00:01:31,200 Speaker 1: generous sponsor, Dino Cadence. If you're serious about learning to 27 00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:34,240 Speaker 1: fight from reptile back, you need to get with Dino Cadence, 28 00:01:34,280 --> 00:01:38,119 Speaker 1: the fastest growing franchise of combat schools in the internationalist world. 29 00:01:38,240 --> 00:01:40,600 Speaker 1: If you want to save the world, get your butt 30 00:01:40,720 --> 00:01:43,280 Speaker 1: into a saddle and learn how to kill Nazis today. 31 00:01:43,640 --> 00:01:46,720 Speaker 1: Enrollment is free, but spots are limited, So apply now, 32 00:01:47,240 --> 00:01:54,240 Speaker 1: Dino Cadence. Now where were we world War Three? For 33 00:01:54,280 --> 00:01:56,880 Speaker 1: the one hundred and twenty years between World War Two 34 00:01:56,920 --> 00:02:00,440 Speaker 1: and World War Three, people figured World War three would 35 00:02:00,520 --> 00:02:02,800 Speaker 1: end all life on Earth. It would be the last 36 00:02:02,800 --> 00:02:07,000 Speaker 1: war ever. For the whole second half of the twentieth century. Yeah, yeah, 37 00:02:07,040 --> 00:02:09,560 Speaker 1: some of us are old enough to remember the twentieth century. 38 00:02:10,320 --> 00:02:14,360 Speaker 1: People lived in fear of nuclear armageddon. Figured the next 39 00:02:14,360 --> 00:02:16,720 Speaker 1: war would be nukes dropping this way and that way, 40 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:21,079 Speaker 1: end of the world as we know. It turns out, no, 41 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:23,480 Speaker 1: no one really wanted to blow up the entire world 42 00:02:23,520 --> 00:02:26,480 Speaker 1: as it happened. World War THREI didn't kick off as 43 00:02:26,480 --> 00:02:30,280 Speaker 1: a hot war until the autonomous weapon platforms got going 44 00:02:30,320 --> 00:02:33,799 Speaker 1: in Earnest. We didn't get a nuclear war. We got 45 00:02:33,840 --> 00:02:37,840 Speaker 1: the AWP War, the op War, the Sixth Month War, 46 00:02:38,320 --> 00:02:42,360 Speaker 1: the robo War, World War Terror Long twenty forty four, 47 00:02:43,200 --> 00:02:47,079 Speaker 1: call it what you want. We here at cool Zone 48 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:49,080 Speaker 1: Media tracked the roots of World War three to all 49 00:02:49,120 --> 00:02:53,280 Speaker 1: the usual sources, the long Russian stalemate in Ukraine, the 50 00:02:53,280 --> 00:02:57,840 Speaker 1: Palestinian genocide, and the failed Turkish annexation of northeastern Syria. 51 00:02:58,639 --> 00:03:01,280 Speaker 1: After the US formally left both NATO and the UN 52 00:03:01,320 --> 00:03:04,320 Speaker 1: and twenty forty one and the world's premier military power, 53 00:03:04,360 --> 00:03:08,120 Speaker 1: Salt's economy fall into a tailspin, there was a terrifying 54 00:03:08,160 --> 00:03:13,040 Speaker 1: power vacuum. November twenty forty three, or Murder Month as 55 00:03:13,080 --> 00:03:15,720 Speaker 1: our own Robert Evans probably shouldn't have called it. Saw 56 00:03:15,760 --> 00:03:20,320 Speaker 1: world leaders, CEOs, human rights activists, and media influencers all 57 00:03:20,320 --> 00:03:24,200 Speaker 1: assassinated at a terrifying rate. Some of those people all 58 00:03:24,240 --> 00:03:28,240 Speaker 1: mourn some of them I won't. Then all of December 59 00:03:28,440 --> 00:03:32,720 Speaker 1: was eerily quiet. Then with the fireworks of the New Year, 60 00:03:33,360 --> 00:03:38,160 Speaker 1: the war started. In Earnest. Turkey invaded Kurdistan, Germany rolled 61 00:03:38,160 --> 00:03:40,800 Speaker 1: tanks into Poland again, though to be fair, this time 62 00:03:40,840 --> 00:03:43,880 Speaker 1: it was to liberate the country from Russia. The US 63 00:03:43,880 --> 00:03:48,080 Speaker 1: invaded Mexico in Ireland, Mexico invaded the US. The Second 64 00:03:48,120 --> 00:03:50,600 Speaker 1: Chinese Revolution kicked off, taking them out of the fight 65 00:03:50,760 --> 00:03:55,200 Speaker 1: more or less completely. All in one week. It was 66 00:03:55,240 --> 00:03:58,520 Speaker 1: a four way war, the US and its proxies like 67 00:03:58,640 --> 00:04:01,080 Speaker 1: Israel and the UK. We're at war with the EU. 68 00:04:01,200 --> 00:04:04,480 Speaker 1: We're at war with bricks minus China, We're at war 69 00:04:04,560 --> 00:04:07,160 Speaker 1: with the US, and of course the Alliance of the 70 00:04:07,200 --> 00:04:11,720 Speaker 1: Global South declared war. Quote anyone who attempts to station troops, materiel, 71 00:04:11,920 --> 00:04:16,240 Speaker 1: or infrastructure in any of our territories, which meant they 72 00:04:16,240 --> 00:04:19,279 Speaker 1: were at war with everyone else too. That's how the 73 00:04:19,320 --> 00:04:22,960 Speaker 1: war looked if you zoomed out far enough on the ground, 74 00:04:23,680 --> 00:04:27,360 Speaker 1: it was just a war of machines versus people. If 75 00:04:27,360 --> 00:04:29,240 Speaker 1: you're old enough to listen to this podcast, you're old 76 00:04:29,320 --> 00:04:31,560 Speaker 1: enough to remember the war, and you probably don't want 77 00:04:31,560 --> 00:04:33,760 Speaker 1: to be reminded in detail. So we're not going to 78 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:36,880 Speaker 1: linger too long on those six terrible months. It was 79 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:41,320 Speaker 1: nasty drones everywhere, killing all kinds of people. Despite all 80 00:04:41,320 --> 00:04:44,359 Speaker 1: the claims world leaders made about the higher moral standards 81 00:04:44,360 --> 00:04:48,039 Speaker 1: of artificial intelligence, all the claims made of the precision 82 00:04:48,120 --> 00:04:53,920 Speaker 1: targeting available to autonomous drone swarms and quadruped AWPs, it 83 00:04:53,960 --> 00:04:55,760 Speaker 1: was the civilians who got at the worst in the 84 00:04:55,800 --> 00:04:59,320 Speaker 1: Op War. Same as always, all four sides of the 85 00:04:59,360 --> 00:05:03,680 Speaker 1: war targeted journalists, doctors, and civilian engineers with at least 86 00:05:03,720 --> 00:05:07,640 Speaker 1: as much ferocity as they targeted enemy soldiers, drone programmers, 87 00:05:07,680 --> 00:05:11,479 Speaker 1: and drones. More than one hundred years ago, during World 88 00:05:11,560 --> 00:05:15,560 Speaker 1: War One, the anarchist data artist Hugo Ball spoke pruscient 89 00:05:15,600 --> 00:05:19,960 Speaker 1: words quote the war is founded on a glaring mistake. 90 00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:24,520 Speaker 1: Men have been confused with machines, as true in twenty 91 00:05:24,560 --> 00:05:28,040 Speaker 1: forty four as it was in nineteen sixteen. That's the 92 00:05:28,120 --> 00:05:30,880 Speaker 1: quote you so often here attributed to him these days. 93 00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:34,800 Speaker 1: But a year earlier he said something similar, yet fantastically 94 00:05:34,839 --> 00:05:39,400 Speaker 1: fatally wrong. In nineteen fifteen, he wrote, quote, the war 95 00:05:39,480 --> 00:05:44,120 Speaker 1: is based on crass error. Men have been mistaken for machines. Machines, 96 00:05:44,160 --> 00:05:47,440 Speaker 1: not men. Should be decimated. At some future date, when 97 00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:51,000 Speaker 1: only the machines march, things will be better. Then everyone 98 00:05:51,040 --> 00:05:53,680 Speaker 1: will be right to rejoice when they all demolish each other. 99 00:05:55,400 --> 00:05:58,240 Speaker 1: If the machines had only fought the machines, the world 100 00:05:58,279 --> 00:06:00,280 Speaker 1: would be a better place, and so many of more 101 00:06:00,320 --> 00:06:03,360 Speaker 1: of our friends would be in it. It is, of course, 102 00:06:03,600 --> 00:06:07,200 Speaker 1: simply terrifying how efficiently machines can kill without resorting to 103 00:06:07,279 --> 00:06:13,040 Speaker 1: nuclear weapons. A billion dead. That's never happened before. A 104 00:06:13,080 --> 00:06:16,440 Speaker 1: billion dead. The population of the Earth didn't even hit 105 00:06:16,520 --> 00:06:19,400 Speaker 1: one billion into the year eighteen oh four, and two 106 00:06:19,520 --> 00:06:23,200 Speaker 1: hundred and forty years later, a billion people died in 107 00:06:23,320 --> 00:06:27,960 Speaker 1: six months. What a great place to transition to ads. 108 00:06:28,279 --> 00:06:30,320 Speaker 1: I've been doing this for thirty three years now and 109 00:06:30,360 --> 00:06:33,480 Speaker 1: it never gets old, transitioning to ads and inappropriate places. 110 00:06:34,720 --> 00:06:37,760 Speaker 1: Are you tired of your militia issued saddle slipping while 111 00:06:37,760 --> 00:06:40,760 Speaker 1: you're on the march? Is your dino companion schafing from 112 00:06:40,800 --> 00:06:44,480 Speaker 1: the cheap, scratchy saddle blankets? 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If your dinosaur shows symptoms including, 130 00:07:42,080 --> 00:07:44,440 Speaker 1: but not limited to, fatigue, vomiting, joint pain, or feather loss, 131 00:07:44,520 --> 00:07:47,320 Speaker 1: cease consumption of meat slabs, immediately ask your paleo veterinarian 132 00:07:47,400 --> 00:07:49,080 Speaker 1: or quarter master if meat slabs are right for you. 133 00:07:49,800 --> 00:07:53,320 Speaker 1: Meat slabs and then I don't know whatever these other 134 00:07:53,360 --> 00:08:12,600 Speaker 1: ads are, and we're back. Forty million soldiers were killed 135 00:08:12,600 --> 00:08:16,120 Speaker 1: in combat, two hundred million civilians were killed by bullets 136 00:08:16,120 --> 00:08:20,200 Speaker 1: and bombs and mortars, and mines. Five hundred million people 137 00:08:20,560 --> 00:08:23,720 Speaker 1: were taken to their grave by the deer flu. The rest, 138 00:08:23,760 --> 00:08:25,880 Speaker 1: of course, died of hunger and thirst and lack of 139 00:08:25,960 --> 00:08:30,119 Speaker 1: access to medical care. A billion people, about ten percent 140 00:08:30,160 --> 00:08:32,920 Speaker 1: of the human population, died in twenty forty four, and 141 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:36,880 Speaker 1: I am certain that includes someone you know. Only six 142 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:39,319 Speaker 1: nukes went off over the course of the war, killing 143 00:08:39,400 --> 00:08:42,440 Speaker 1: about a million people, a tenth of a percent of 144 00:08:42,440 --> 00:08:47,280 Speaker 1: the total war dead. Washington, d c, Tel Aviv, Saint Petersburg, 145 00:08:47,920 --> 00:08:51,959 Speaker 1: those cities simply aren't there anymore. Two more blasts went 146 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:54,960 Speaker 1: off at weapon facilities in Pakistan, and of course the 147 00:08:55,040 --> 00:08:58,679 Speaker 1: sixth blast was the Idaho incident, when a white Christian 148 00:08:58,760 --> 00:09:02,760 Speaker 1: nationalist organization called God's Hammer failed to prove the superiority 149 00:09:02,800 --> 00:09:05,920 Speaker 1: of the white race, stealing a warhead from a US facility, 150 00:09:06,040 --> 00:09:09,160 Speaker 1: only to accidentally detonate it in their own compound outside 151 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:13,800 Speaker 1: of Wallace, Idahom. It was civilians who suffered under the war, 152 00:09:14,240 --> 00:09:17,559 Speaker 1: and it was civilians who ended it. Vishnu freyer Eloheim, 153 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:21,400 Speaker 1: or VIFI for short, was an international consortium of engineers 154 00:09:21,440 --> 00:09:24,160 Speaker 1: from every side of the war that met in secret 155 00:09:24,280 --> 00:09:27,760 Speaker 1: and developed the suite of weapons that rendered autonomous weapon 156 00:09:27,840 --> 00:09:32,080 Speaker 1: platforms obsolete. Most famous of these, of course, are the 157 00:09:32,080 --> 00:09:35,480 Speaker 1: two weapons that ended the war. In April, they unveiled 158 00:09:35,480 --> 00:09:39,400 Speaker 1: the tactical EMP a weapon that destroys electronics without harming 159 00:09:39,480 --> 00:09:42,960 Speaker 1: life or non electrical infrastructure. At the end of May, 160 00:09:43,440 --> 00:09:46,760 Speaker 1: they released the first prototype of the Vishnu Shield, a 161 00:09:46,760 --> 00:09:50,240 Speaker 1: static EMP field that can shield an entire geographic area 162 00:09:50,280 --> 00:09:53,120 Speaker 1: from electronics that can run for hours at a time 163 00:09:53,640 --> 00:09:57,440 Speaker 1: on a shockingly low amount of power. By month four 164 00:09:57,520 --> 00:10:00,679 Speaker 1: of the war, soldiers from every army, both enlisted and 165 00:10:00,800 --> 00:10:05,560 Speaker 1: officers regularly mutinied and deployed tactical EMPs supplied by Vifi, 166 00:10:05,840 --> 00:10:09,920 Speaker 1: stationing themselves at population centers and attacking drones from every army. 167 00:10:10,800 --> 00:10:13,679 Speaker 1: By month six, the Vishnu Shield had been deployed by 168 00:10:13,720 --> 00:10:16,880 Speaker 1: desperate civilians in nearly every country in the world, and 169 00:10:16,920 --> 00:10:20,800 Speaker 1: the war ground to a halt. The governments of India, 170 00:10:20,960 --> 00:10:24,839 Speaker 1: the Scandinavian Federation, and what's once more called Palestine were 171 00:10:24,880 --> 00:10:28,760 Speaker 1: immediately overthrown, while every government in the world, especially those 172 00:10:28,800 --> 00:10:32,680 Speaker 1: of the major belligerent powers, faced crises of legitimacy that 173 00:10:32,679 --> 00:10:39,199 Speaker 1: they have yet to recover from. So ended World War three. 174 00:10:39,360 --> 00:10:41,959 Speaker 1: For eight years or so, we had something resembling peace. 175 00:10:42,840 --> 00:10:45,600 Speaker 1: Very few cities opted to keep their Vishnu shields running 176 00:10:45,600 --> 00:10:49,280 Speaker 1: full time. Of course, modern life, especially in an era 177 00:10:49,400 --> 00:10:54,640 Speaker 1: of extreme heat, requires regular access to power, although clockmakers 178 00:10:54,679 --> 00:10:57,280 Speaker 1: have advanced some amazing new marvels like the self powered 179 00:10:57,280 --> 00:11:02,240 Speaker 1: clockwork insulin pumps. Imborg, Sweden, was the largest municipality to 180 00:11:02,280 --> 00:11:05,480 Speaker 1: declare itself a non electric space by a three quarters 181 00:11:05,480 --> 00:11:08,840 Speaker 1: majority vote of its citizens, and ten years later it 182 00:11:08,920 --> 00:11:12,920 Speaker 1: remains the most famous large scale example of conscious deindustrialization 183 00:11:13,400 --> 00:11:15,559 Speaker 1: and is a hub for the neo lutite movement. And 184 00:11:15,600 --> 00:11:17,719 Speaker 1: we're not just saying that because their tourist board is 185 00:11:17,760 --> 00:11:22,360 Speaker 1: one of our sponsors. For eight years after the war ended, 186 00:11:22,920 --> 00:11:26,760 Speaker 1: journalists and ideologues called World War three the last possible 187 00:11:26,880 --> 00:11:30,160 Speaker 1: World War. I might have slipped up and said as 188 00:11:30,200 --> 00:11:33,440 Speaker 1: much on this very show. Daniel informs me that I 189 00:11:33,480 --> 00:11:36,320 Speaker 1: said it on our August sixth, twenty forty seven episode, 190 00:11:36,640 --> 00:11:38,680 Speaker 1: the one where I went to that new anarchist pacifist 191 00:11:38,679 --> 00:11:41,199 Speaker 1: town in Germany that they named Omlas built in the 192 00:11:41,280 --> 00:11:44,160 Speaker 1: ruins of Munster. It's a good episode anyway. It gets 193 00:11:44,200 --> 00:11:46,439 Speaker 1: into the deep radical history of that city and also 194 00:11:46,880 --> 00:11:50,520 Speaker 1: has clips of me asking like fifteen German pacifists in 195 00:11:50,520 --> 00:11:53,559 Speaker 1: My really Bad German Why the hell they named their 196 00:11:53,600 --> 00:11:56,120 Speaker 1: town after a thought experiment about how not to have 197 00:11:56,160 --> 00:12:01,520 Speaker 1: a utopia? World War three was the last possible war 198 00:12:01,960 --> 00:12:04,319 Speaker 1: because it was a war between states that was ended 199 00:12:04,320 --> 00:12:08,400 Speaker 1: by the courage that the people themselves, both civilians and soldiers, 200 00:12:09,080 --> 00:12:12,640 Speaker 1: had to stand up to those states. It was the 201 00:12:12,679 --> 00:12:16,080 Speaker 1: war that declared for once and for all that people 202 00:12:16,120 --> 00:12:19,800 Speaker 1: power was more powerful than state power. How could you 203 00:12:19,840 --> 00:12:22,360 Speaker 1: have a war without a state? How could you have 204 00:12:22,400 --> 00:12:25,320 Speaker 1: a war without the ability to deploy electronics on a 205 00:12:25,320 --> 00:12:32,240 Speaker 1: modern battlefield? Where there's a will, there's a way, much 206 00:12:32,320 --> 00:12:34,040 Speaker 1: like there's a way for me to transition to ads 207 00:12:34,120 --> 00:12:39,199 Speaker 1: right now. I didn't just bring up Helsenborg because their 208 00:12:39,200 --> 00:12:41,480 Speaker 1: tourist board is one of our major sponsors of the show. 209 00:12:41,679 --> 00:12:45,200 Speaker 1: I promise you, but they are. Are you tired of 210 00:12:45,200 --> 00:12:49,040 Speaker 1: the electrical life, tired of doom scrolling, tired of online dating? 211 00:12:49,600 --> 00:12:51,960 Speaker 1: Do you long for the simple life, the good life? 212 00:12:52,440 --> 00:12:55,120 Speaker 1: Do you dream of chopping wood to heat your apartment, 213 00:12:55,440 --> 00:12:58,240 Speaker 1: working cooperatively to meet your needs without the hub and 214 00:12:58,400 --> 00:13:01,240 Speaker 1: the bub of the modern world, But you still like 215 00:13:01,360 --> 00:13:04,320 Speaker 1: city life. Do you want to spend your evenings at 216 00:13:04,360 --> 00:13:07,320 Speaker 1: tea houses and saunas, talking of the issues of the 217 00:13:07,400 --> 00:13:11,600 Speaker 1: day through word of mouth. Helsenborg, Sweden is the largest 218 00:13:11,600 --> 00:13:15,199 Speaker 1: de electrified urban area in the world, and the Scandinavian 219 00:13:15,240 --> 00:13:18,760 Speaker 1: Federation is open to all immigrants, regardless of national origin. 220 00:13:19,400 --> 00:13:22,000 Speaker 1: Thanks to the wonders of Fast Turnaround Vinyl, you can 221 00:13:22,040 --> 00:13:24,640 Speaker 1: even keep up with your favorite podcasts on only a 222 00:13:24,640 --> 00:13:29,200 Speaker 1: two day delay from the electrical world. Helsenborg, Come on over. 223 00:13:30,080 --> 00:13:32,520 Speaker 1: Remember to write cool Zone Media on your visa application 224 00:13:32,559 --> 00:13:34,360 Speaker 1: where it asks where you heard of them to help 225 00:13:34,360 --> 00:13:37,280 Speaker 1: support the show. Do not consider moving to a vision 226 00:13:37,320 --> 00:13:39,280 Speaker 1: shielded area if you rely on a pacemaker or other 227 00:13:39,320 --> 00:13:41,800 Speaker 1: electrical aids. Three year mandatory service in the armed or 228 00:13:41,800 --> 00:13:44,200 Speaker 1: civilian forces of the Scandinavian Federation required of all new 229 00:13:44,200 --> 00:13:47,080 Speaker 1: residents over the age of sixteen. All Scandinavian residents between 230 00:13:47,080 --> 00:13:49,240 Speaker 1: the ages of sixteen to seventy required to participate in 231 00:13:49,240 --> 00:13:51,480 Speaker 1: the defense of the territory in the event of nationalist incursion. 232 00:13:51,720 --> 00:13:53,880 Speaker 1: Offline life does not guarantee to solve depression by polar 233 00:13:53,880 --> 00:13:56,040 Speaker 1: disorder or any other mental health condition. There is no 234 00:13:56,040 --> 00:13:57,840 Speaker 1: such thing as a climate haven, and natural disaster can 235 00:13:57,880 --> 00:14:03,280 Speaker 1: strike anywhere in the world. If you're not tired of 236 00:14:03,280 --> 00:14:07,240 Speaker 1: online dating, though, try Gorga. Gorga is the only online 237 00:14:07,280 --> 00:14:11,040 Speaker 1: dating app that's specifically designed to match postgender tryads with 238 00:14:11,120 --> 00:14:16,360 Speaker 1: transgender die ads for board game nights and board game nights. 239 00:14:16,520 --> 00:14:21,200 Speaker 1: That's what a wink alike. Gorga's open source recursive not 240 00:14:21,440 --> 00:14:24,920 Speaker 1: ai is capable of guiding you and your loved ones 241 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:28,600 Speaker 1: to your perfect match. Gorga, like all online dating services, 242 00:14:28,640 --> 00:14:30,720 Speaker 1: is not guaranteed to alleviate the foreboding sense of isolation 243 00:14:30,760 --> 00:14:33,240 Speaker 1: caused by world war and climate apocalypse. Proof of prior 244 00:14:33,320 --> 00:14:35,920 Speaker 1: or active civil service, whether military or mutual, aid required 245 00:14:35,920 --> 00:14:38,320 Speaker 1: to sign up. For all users within certain jurisdictions, Gorga 246 00:14:38,360 --> 00:14:40,520 Speaker 1: cannot guarantee that your dating match is not a Nazi assassin. 247 00:14:40,760 --> 00:15:02,240 Speaker 1: Use Gorga at your own risk, and we're back. World 248 00:15:02,280 --> 00:15:08,640 Speaker 1: peace couldn't last. It probably never will. Some people say 249 00:15:08,720 --> 00:15:12,080 Speaker 1: that World War three point five started in Mexico in 250 00:15:12,160 --> 00:15:16,280 Speaker 1: twenty fifty five. Years into the Maganesta and Zapatista revolt 251 00:15:16,320 --> 00:15:19,800 Speaker 1: against the cartels, Suddenly a huge chunk of the ostensibly 252 00:15:19,840 --> 00:15:23,400 Speaker 1: democratic government stopped siding with the cartels and started siding 253 00:15:23,480 --> 00:15:26,160 Speaker 1: with the rebels, and an all out civil war broke out. 254 00:15:27,400 --> 00:15:30,720 Speaker 1: Other people say that World War three point five started 255 00:15:30,720 --> 00:15:33,880 Speaker 1: in the Turkish regions of Kurdistan, when in twenty fifty one, 256 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:37,680 Speaker 1: the YPJ announced the expansion of the Rushavan Project, declared 257 00:15:37,720 --> 00:15:41,840 Speaker 1: for democratic confederalism, joined by Iranian feminists and other leftists 258 00:15:41,840 --> 00:15:45,320 Speaker 1: from across Swanna, just as the Turkish government collapsed under 259 00:15:45,360 --> 00:15:49,520 Speaker 1: the weight of popular protests in favor of multiculturalism, only 260 00:15:49,560 --> 00:15:51,840 Speaker 1: to pave the way for the far right Gray Wolves 261 00:15:51,880 --> 00:15:54,720 Speaker 1: to ascend into power in about half the territory of 262 00:15:54,720 --> 00:15:58,240 Speaker 1: the former country. Still, others say that World War three 263 00:15:58,240 --> 00:16:01,560 Speaker 1: point five started in Idaho buffoons blew themselves up with 264 00:16:01,560 --> 00:16:05,240 Speaker 1: a nuke, becoming martyrs to ultranationalists of every stripe around 265 00:16:05,240 --> 00:16:08,160 Speaker 1: the world, none of whom I am sad to say 266 00:16:08,480 --> 00:16:11,440 Speaker 1: have thus far followed the specific tactical president set for 267 00:16:11,480 --> 00:16:14,920 Speaker 1: them by God's hammer. It's made for a good update 268 00:16:14,960 --> 00:16:18,040 Speaker 1: of the old follow your Leader graffiti, that graffiti which 269 00:16:18,120 --> 00:16:20,200 Speaker 1: used to feature a stencil of Hitler blowing his own 270 00:16:20,200 --> 00:16:23,680 Speaker 1: brains out, and now features a stencil of Henrik Olafson. 271 00:16:23,960 --> 00:16:26,240 Speaker 1: That's not his real name. He was born Tony Rossi 272 00:16:26,320 --> 00:16:29,680 Speaker 1: in Brooklyn, New York, holding a nuclear bomb and staring 273 00:16:29,720 --> 00:16:34,320 Speaker 1: at it incredulously. World War three point five is the 274 00:16:34,360 --> 00:16:38,440 Speaker 1: first World civil war or the First World Revolution, depending 275 00:16:38,480 --> 00:16:41,440 Speaker 1: on how you look at it. Civil war and revolution 276 00:16:41,560 --> 00:16:46,800 Speaker 1: are functionally synonyms. No longer are nation states duking it 277 00:16:46,800 --> 00:16:50,480 Speaker 1: out with other nation states like the twentieth century, nor 278 00:16:50,520 --> 00:16:53,240 Speaker 1: are nation states duking it out with non state actors 279 00:16:53,400 --> 00:16:57,800 Speaker 1: like the early twenty first century. This war, our war, 280 00:16:58,520 --> 00:17:02,760 Speaker 1: is a war between nationalism and internationalism, a war in 281 00:17:02,800 --> 00:17:08,200 Speaker 1: the heart of every country on Earth. Still, it's hard 282 00:17:08,240 --> 00:17:12,040 Speaker 1: to fight a modern war without modern technology. So I 283 00:17:12,160 --> 00:17:14,320 Speaker 1: don't pin the start of World War three point five 284 00:17:14,400 --> 00:17:17,960 Speaker 1: on the Maganestas and the Zapatistas in Mexico. I don't 285 00:17:17,960 --> 00:17:21,040 Speaker 1: pin it on the Democratic and Federalists in Swanna. I 286 00:17:21,080 --> 00:17:24,520 Speaker 1: don't pin it on the accelerationist bozos and compounds in Idaho. 287 00:17:25,160 --> 00:17:27,400 Speaker 1: I don't pin it on the Baltimore Commune. I don't 288 00:17:27,400 --> 00:17:30,200 Speaker 1: pin it on the Pan African Alliance for Democracy and Cooperation. 289 00:17:30,880 --> 00:17:33,240 Speaker 1: I don't pin it on that bizarre Red Brown Alliance 290 00:17:33,280 --> 00:17:36,199 Speaker 1: in Russia, the New Soviet Red Army. I don't pin 291 00:17:36,280 --> 00:17:39,080 Speaker 1: it on Elpodor del Pueblo. I don't pin it on 292 00:17:39,119 --> 00:17:43,240 Speaker 1: the new CCP. I pin the start of World War 293 00:17:43,320 --> 00:17:47,720 Speaker 1: three point five on a group of scientists working in Helsinki, Finland. 294 00:17:48,280 --> 00:17:54,760 Speaker 1: I pinned on the people who started cloning dinosaurs. We've 295 00:17:54,800 --> 00:17:57,840 Speaker 1: covered the rebirth of dinosaurs numerous times on this show before. 296 00:17:57,920 --> 00:17:59,880 Speaker 1: Of course, if you'd like to hear us talk about 297 00:17:59,920 --> 00:18:03,160 Speaker 1: it in more depth, I recommend a few episodes. July 298 00:18:03,400 --> 00:18:06,480 Speaker 1: twenty fifty two's four part The Rise of the Dino 299 00:18:06,600 --> 00:18:09,199 Speaker 1: Rider series gets into it in more depth. But of 300 00:18:09,200 --> 00:18:12,560 Speaker 1: course Garrison Davis is excellent. Why are all the Pterodactyl 301 00:18:12,600 --> 00:18:16,440 Speaker 1: Jockeys Gay as Hell? From February twenty fifty three remains 302 00:18:16,480 --> 00:18:19,080 Speaker 1: one of our most listened to episodes ever, and Molly 303 00:18:19,160 --> 00:18:22,080 Speaker 1: Conger's episode of Weird Little Guys from December twenty forty 304 00:18:22,080 --> 00:18:25,960 Speaker 1: seven about Aldus Bentley. The third Presage is the whole thing, 305 00:18:26,920 --> 00:18:30,920 Speaker 1: so just saying more detail is available, but in short, 306 00:18:31,600 --> 00:18:35,560 Speaker 1: let's see. I've been writing history podcasts for almost half 307 00:18:35,600 --> 00:18:37,879 Speaker 1: my life now, and one thing I've learned is that 308 00:18:37,920 --> 00:18:40,520 Speaker 1: whenever there's a single person credited for this or that 309 00:18:40,680 --> 00:18:46,040 Speaker 1: scientific or ideological achievement, it's never the full story. Helemi 310 00:18:46,160 --> 00:18:49,200 Speaker 1: Koskinen is the name you'll hear most often, though, they 311 00:18:49,240 --> 00:18:53,840 Speaker 1: call her petriyan Ayete, the Mother of beasts, the most 312 00:18:53,880 --> 00:18:58,240 Speaker 1: famous molecular palaeontologist in the world, which would have been 313 00:18:58,280 --> 00:19:01,359 Speaker 1: an easy title to wind up with twenty years ago, 314 00:19:01,520 --> 00:19:04,960 Speaker 1: but as competitive as health these days. But let's be honest. 315 00:19:05,160 --> 00:19:07,720 Speaker 1: The reason she's remembered more than her team is that 316 00:19:07,800 --> 00:19:11,320 Speaker 1: she served as the spokesperson for Cold Lab Cooperative, and 317 00:19:11,359 --> 00:19:13,440 Speaker 1: that she was gunned down on television the day she 318 00:19:13,480 --> 00:19:17,159 Speaker 1: announced the first successful de extinction of a dinosaur, a 319 00:19:17,200 --> 00:19:20,840 Speaker 1: triceratops named trich, which then gored her assassin. As the 320 00:19:20,840 --> 00:19:25,320 Speaker 1: world looked on March thirteenth, twenty forty nine, you probably 321 00:19:25,359 --> 00:19:28,880 Speaker 1: know where you were that day. Cold Lab Cooperative wasn't 322 00:19:28,920 --> 00:19:31,160 Speaker 1: in the war business. They were in the climate change 323 00:19:31,200 --> 00:19:35,720 Speaker 1: adaptation business. But the technology they developed, with substantial contributions 324 00:19:35,720 --> 00:19:38,240 Speaker 1: from Coskinen, who was certainly more than a talking head, 325 00:19:38,880 --> 00:19:42,639 Speaker 1: absolutely changed the game on cloning. Pettants will tell you 326 00:19:42,720 --> 00:19:46,000 Speaker 1: that what they do isn't cloning at all, but ex vivogenesis, 327 00:19:46,560 --> 00:19:50,439 Speaker 1: but that name never really stuck, not in the popular imagination. 328 00:19:51,160 --> 00:19:54,000 Speaker 1: Soon labs all over the world were de extincting animals 329 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:57,000 Speaker 1: of every sort. Soon after that, labs all over the 330 00:19:57,000 --> 00:19:59,760 Speaker 1: world were cross breeding humans and animals into what are 331 00:19:59,800 --> 00:20:04,160 Speaker 1: called biospawn, and even resurrecting living tissue, though of course, 332 00:20:04,200 --> 00:20:06,280 Speaker 1: to date no one has brought back a human corpse 333 00:20:06,320 --> 00:20:09,600 Speaker 1: that retained anything in the way of personality, intelligence, or memory. 334 00:20:11,440 --> 00:20:15,440 Speaker 1: And soon enough after that we went to war. At 335 00:20:15,440 --> 00:20:19,720 Speaker 1: the Council in Lagos that confederated Democratic territories agreed to 336 00:20:19,760 --> 00:20:22,199 Speaker 1: a very specific set of limitations on the use of 337 00:20:22,200 --> 00:20:26,440 Speaker 1: ex vivo genesis. Only previously existing animals could be cloned, 338 00:20:27,080 --> 00:20:31,160 Speaker 1: no monsters, the rule states. The Lagos Accord was soon 339 00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:34,600 Speaker 1: agreed upon by people all over the world. Other people, 340 00:20:34,720 --> 00:20:39,080 Speaker 1: of course, refused to listen, and by twenty fifty two 341 00:20:39,160 --> 00:20:42,720 Speaker 1: the World Civil War began in Earnest. On our side, 342 00:20:42,960 --> 00:20:46,880 Speaker 1: the internationalist side, we have brave dino riders wielding non 343 00:20:46,920 --> 00:20:52,080 Speaker 1: electric firearms. On the enemy side, the nationalist side, there 344 00:20:52,080 --> 00:20:55,680 Speaker 1: are zombies resurrected from the dead, shambling across the fields 345 00:20:55,680 --> 00:20:58,719 Speaker 1: of battle to eat everything in their way. There are 346 00:20:58,760 --> 00:21:02,960 Speaker 1: soldiers twisted and bread into nightmarish creatures, ravaged by pain 347 00:21:03,040 --> 00:21:08,280 Speaker 1: and rage. They're hideous, crawling biospawn the size of houses 348 00:21:08,600 --> 00:21:12,480 Speaker 1: that shriek and sob their way towards their objectives, ridden 349 00:21:12,520 --> 00:21:16,000 Speaker 1: by cruel masters who steer them through city streets with 350 00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:20,399 Speaker 1: hooks and prods. For the first few decades of the 351 00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:23,719 Speaker 1: twenty first century, it was out of vogue to conceive 352 00:21:23,800 --> 00:21:27,760 Speaker 1: of things as either good or evil. But this war, 353 00:21:28,320 --> 00:21:32,680 Speaker 1: the Dinoh War, it's a war of the living versus 354 00:21:32,760 --> 00:21:37,720 Speaker 1: the liminal, a war of freedom versus tyranny, a war 355 00:21:37,920 --> 00:21:42,920 Speaker 1: of kindness versus cruelty, a war of dinos versus zombies, 356 00:21:43,840 --> 00:21:48,520 Speaker 1: a war we're going to win. And yeah, those of 357 00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:52,800 Speaker 1: us at cool Zone Media, we're biased. That doesn't mean 358 00:21:52,840 --> 00:21:57,639 Speaker 1: we're wrong. We're not winning right now, to be honest, 359 00:21:57,840 --> 00:22:01,359 Speaker 1: nor are we losing. The fight is fierce all across 360 00:22:01,400 --> 00:22:05,280 Speaker 1: the world. New national borders creep up and collapse every day, 361 00:22:05,680 --> 00:22:07,960 Speaker 1: and it's hard to keep up with exactly how everything 362 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:11,280 Speaker 1: is going. There are only a few true strongholds on 363 00:22:11,320 --> 00:22:16,160 Speaker 1: either side. Nigeria, the Scandinavian Federation, the Free Territory of California, 364 00:22:16,200 --> 00:22:19,040 Speaker 1: and coastal Argentina are firmly in the hands of the 365 00:22:19,080 --> 00:22:24,640 Speaker 1: internationalists and have been since day one. Istanbul, Saint Petersburg, Johannesburg. 366 00:22:25,800 --> 00:22:29,520 Speaker 1: They're on the other side. That's it. For a recap. 367 00:22:29,640 --> 00:22:31,400 Speaker 1: We hope you join us again next week for another 368 00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:33,840 Speaker 1: episode of cool Zone twenty fifty four Reports from the 369 00:22:33,920 --> 00:22:36,520 Speaker 1: dinoh War, where I'll be giving you my report back, 370 00:22:36,560 --> 00:22:40,840 Speaker 1: plus some live coverage from Helsinki Dinocon and just here 371 00:22:40,880 --> 00:22:44,240 Speaker 1: for plugs at the end, I still have my substack going. 372 00:22:44,320 --> 00:22:47,800 Speaker 1: It is thirty plus years going strong. Margaret Kildre. 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