I'd say people are at a place where they need a change of heart more than a change of mind.

One doesn't have to be a fan to say shooting people you disagree with is not social behavior. The fact so many people did far worse than that is a kind of really psychotic barometer. I had heard of Charlie Kirk in passing before his assassination, but I wasn't really a follower since much of what he was doing was/is stuff I'd all ready done a lot of. I think it is still useful for people of a certain age, but usually as you go along, you start to learn that debate doesn't generally change anyone's mind.

I'm not especially picky or demanding on the point. As you get to it is fine, or if you don't get to it at all, that's also fine.

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@SimpleStacker The next one in line, if you have a line!

Thanks for the syndication!

Totally unintentional fulfillment on my part. Glad it worked out though.

Does the home server federate?

hmm. The ending of the EO is not what I'd call "pretty" but it is conclusive.

I have a different idea for why we don't see the ending like the book has but the tragedies only. It has to do more with human nature and what it has faith in.

I understand your points, though, about "priming" a population.

These things aren't scripted and produced year ahead of actual news cycles by happenstance. Clancy's novels are more thematic, which allows them to hold up over decades.

What I'm saying is that after a thing happens, everyone calls it predictive programming or soft disclosure. Instead, I think it is more a kind of collective wish-fulfillment that people allow to play out by inattention. The ending of this work, for instance, so far hasn't happened. I wonder why that is?

Odds are for people who aren't interested in making it happen.

I'm familiar with both. What do you think that means?

Sure. However, intelligence has many branches with many purveyors of "soft disclosure". None of them are hitting on the cylinders that this work is. It might be that everyone decided to use it as a subconscious kind of script more than it is that intelligence is driving the narrative. I suspect much of what happens in America has more to do with the population becoming greedy and lazy than it does with an evil, small cadre controlling the world. If the people are energized, that kind of crap won't fly.

It depends. Net Force's cover doesn't do that: https://booklight.top/posts/2025-06-24-tomclancy

I'd just take the Tom Clancy in big bold print off and make it small. If it ain't Clancy, it is gonna show.

Just make sure it isn't ghost written. That's my main advice.

I remember the movie being good.

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