{"id":71786,"date":"2023-12-22T11:00:08","date_gmt":"2023-12-22T17:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/?p=71786"},"modified":"2023-12-22T06:29:21","modified_gmt":"2023-12-22T12:29:21","slug":"doug-casey-with-some-thoughts-on-phyles-islam-and-warfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/22\/doug-casey-with-some-thoughts-on-phyles-islam-and-warfare\/","title":{"rendered":"Doug Casey with Some Thoughts on Phyles, Islam, and Warfare"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Doug Casey with Some Thoughts on Phyles, Islam, and Warfare<\/a><\/h1>\n

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I trust you\u2019ll excuse some \u201cstream of consciousness\u201d style writing on my part. My crystal ball showing what we\u2019ll see in the years to come is a bit cloudy. But I think the concepts below will tie together in disturbing ways\u2026<\/h2>\n

Let\u2019s start with the subject of phyles.<\/h2>\n

The concept of phyles originated with the sci-fi writer Neal Stephenson, in his seminal book\u00a0The Diamond Age<\/em>. I\u2019ve always been a big fan of quality science fiction. There\u2019s no question sci-fi has been an excellent predictor of both social and technological trends.<\/h2>\n

The book, set mostly in China in the near-term future, posits that while nation-states still exist, they\u2019ve been overwhelmed in importance by the formation of phyles. Phyles are groups of people who are bound together by whatever is important to them. Maybe it will be their race, religion, or culture. Maybe their occupation or hobby. Maybe their world view or what they want to accomplish in life. Or it might be a fairly short-term objective. There are thousands\u2014millions\u2014of possibilities.<\/h2>\n

The key is that a phyle might provide much more than a fraternal or beneficial organization (like Rotary or Lions) does. Phyles might provide insurance services very effectively, since a like-minded group\u2014held together by peer pressure and social approbation\u2014eliminates a lot of moral risk. It might very well offer protection services; a criminal who might not fear taking out a citizen \u201cprotected\u201d by a state, would think twice before attacking members of the Mafia.<\/h2>\n

People are social. They\u2019ll inevitably organize themselves into groups for all the reasons you can imagine. In the past, technology only allowed people to organize themselves by geography\u2014they had to be in the same area. That\u2019s changed over the last century, with the emergence of the train, the car, and especially the airplane. The same with communication. The telephone and television were huge leaps, but the Internet was the catalytic breakthrough. It\u2019s now possible for people to reach out all over the world to find others that are their actual countrymen\u2014those with whom they have a real kinship\u2014not just some moron that shares a piece of government ID with them.<\/h2>\n

As things develop, people will discover\u2014or create\u2014places where their loyalties lie. The nation-state has mostly been an inefficient, counterproductive, and expensive nuisance; it\u2019s rapidly becoming completely insufferable. And dangerous. The people living off the State (which is to say acting as parasites upon their \u201cfellow citizens\u201d) are, however, going to resist having their rice bowls broken. Undoubtedly they\u2019ll use the coercive powers of the State to try to maintain the status quo. The military and the police (whose loyalties are first to their coworkers, then to their employer, and only then to those whom they\u2019re supposed to \u201cserve and protect\u201d) will be out in force wearing riot gear.<\/h2>\n

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Doug Casey with Some Thoughts on Phyles, Islam, and Warfare   I trust you\u2019ll excuse some \u201cstream of consciousness\u201d style writing on my part. My crystal ball showing what we\u2019ll see in the years to come is a bit cloudy. But I think the concepts below will tie together in disturbing ways\u2026 Let\u2019s start with…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5581,6853,3786,5445,2280,2004,5944,2726,6265,5729,5770,398,399,118,498,10,1898,7357],"tags":[5001,658,750,11752,259,3147,16936,8989],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71786"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71788,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71786\/revisions\/71788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}