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Is This Why Our Societies Feel So Unstable Right Now?

The Hidden Art Of Ideological Subversion

MediaVSReality
7 min readJan 18, 2022

“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting” — Sun Tzu — Chinese Military Strategist (500 B.C.)

Do things seem a little unstable recently? No, I’m not talking about COVID19. I’m talking about everything else.

There seem to be tensions and divisions in almost every area of our society (western democracies: USA, UK, France, Australia etc). Between the police and the public. Between races. Between generations (Millennials VS Baby Boomers), between the sexes, between political ideologies, between doctors and their patients, between students and teachers, between the media and the public, between employees and employers.

Now there are plenty of good reasons why these divisions may be occurring. Filter bubbles also play a huge role in why all of these divisions have widened across every single section of our society. But what if another force was at play? What if an outside force was intentionally destabilising your country from the shadows?

What if much of the chaos you’ve seen inside your own country wasn’t an accident, but instead encouraged by outside forces?

You might believe that we live in a state of global peace. That wars between major…

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