The battlefield of everywhere

I have been working on a project dear to my heart.

It involves being cleverer than Putin's Russia to immediately support and protect Ukraine, and then as a result the rest of us.

I started these ideas whilst in Stockholm, on and off, last year:

As befits a Nordic space, I built the ideas around making society's building-blocks — we, the citizens — more resilient, and fearing less the consequences of battling with authoritarianism wherever we should find it.

Yesterday and today I built these same ideas based on my experiences of cognitive warfare on the street, in my home, and in my digital devices — all being at an all-too-personal level to date — around, this time, the battlefield which is currently being waged in Europe: the wholly illegitimate invasion by Putin's Russia of sovereign Ukrainian territories.

The slide-deck that follows now bears witness to these new tweaks to ideas I had last year.

I have included a story about Ukrainian ingenuity and intelligent parsimony when destroying Russian tanks with drones. I was told this story the other day, though have not verified it as yet. But I have included it because if it is true, it deserves to be included. And if it's not true, it deserved to have happened — and equally, illustrates the point I choose to make with the wider presentation.

In a world where cognitive warfare bleeds into all areas of life more and more — not just the soldiering battlefields that appear on TV and in the newspapers but also in the European Parliament and its members, as cases of spying begin to raise their ugly heads — we have to accept that we cannot stop any of this if we don't start to value intuition in radically different ways: firstly, simply, to see it as a real and useful dataset worthy of truly new validation systems.

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