“A political battle is merely a skirmish fought with muskets. A philosophical battle is a nuclear war.”
― Ayn Rand, “Philosophy: Who Needs It”
Contents
(1) Background
(2) What is a “hyper-weapon”?
(3) My ultimate advocacy mission: To create information warfare hyper-weapons
(1) Background
In 1990, when I began using my visualization and and graphic design, writing and creative skills to help fight for freedom, I defined my mission as such.
For more than thirty years, however, I have observed and documented:
- The uninterrupted triumph of ideas and perceptions that are demonstrably at war against freedom, and its foundations and extensions: individual rights, capitalism and limited constitutional government
- The inability of existing front-line organizations and activism models to reverse this trend, whether regarding the destruction of freedom, or the physical clash between civilization and barbarism
- With increasing speed, and amid virtually zero substantive resistance that is either visible or persuasive to them, America’s young people are being rendered historically and economically illiterate – and indoctrinated to believe that socialism is the moral and practical solution to all of our problems
If you doubt my assertions, consider the following data — and as you do, recall that that America spends more, per-student, than any major nation, on “education”:
- 58% of American Millennials say they would rather live under either socialism, communism or fascism, than under capitalism
- 61% of Americans aged between 18 and 24 have a positive reaction to the word “socialism”
- 70% of Millennials say they would vote for a socialist
- The number of Millennials who say they “approve of communism” jumped from 28% in 2018 to 36% in 2019
- 50% of American 18-34 year olds say Hamas’s October 7 murder-rape-torture-kidnapping of Jews was “justified”
- 48% of American college students do not blame Hamas for the October 7 terrorist attack
- 40% of Americans under age 35 support Hamas more than Israel (2024)
- 41% of Americans ages 18-29 say the assassination of United Healthcare CEO is “acceptable”
See more data at America At The Precipice.
After more than 25 years of trying to work “within the system,” I came to the realization that the biggest reason that freedom is being lost is not because its enemies are so effective, but rather, because the best of the “good guys,” and the vital facts and principles that they espouse, are not even on any playing field that the general public — and especially, the young — even see.
In 2018, I redefined my publicly-stated mission, insofar as what I shared with potential backers of, and partners in my advocacy, to read as follows:
Despite the tons of research data I’ve used to back up my assertions, of why the tools I describe are so urgently needed, I still failed to get the financial backing to create them.
I then further refined my ultimate mission, as articulated in follow-on presentations, as being to create “information warfare hyper-weapons.”
This page is the first time that my description of, and articulation of the need for “information warfare hyper-weapons” has ever been published in a public forum.
Jon Sutz
December 23, 2024
(2) What is a “hyper-weapon”?
In the 1996 movie “Independence Day,” Earth is invaded by aliens in city-sized spacecraft. The invaders possess weapons that are capable of exterminating humanity, and destroying everything we have built. Watch the trailer here.
National leaders have deployed their best weaponry, to no effect. Humanity is completely outmatched, and will soon become extinct, if it cannot quickly identify and exploit a vulnerability within the aliens’ weaponry, to enable a war against them to be fought – and won.
What humanity needs is a hyper-weapon: something that approaches the problem from a different perspective, and represents a fundamentally different way to solve it.
A lone electrical engineer devised a theory for such a hyper-weapon: he and a pilot will get inside the aliens’ mother ship, infect its computer system with a virus that is designed to render its attacking ships vulnerable to our weapons, then plant a nuclear bomb in its central command center, and escape. The plan was so efficient, and flawlessly executed, that humanity is saved – by two people, whose work then enabled the rest of the “good guys” to do the heavy lifting of defeating the aliens.
Here’s the scene showing how they deployed this two-punch hyper-weapon, but were unable to escape, after their ship was caught in the aliens’ clutches:
Update December 23, 2024: Another hyper-weapon, featured on “60 Minutes”: Mossad’s pager plot.
(3) My ultimate advocacy mission: To create information warfare hyper-weapons
In 2018, I further redefined the mission of my advocacy work, as being to create a total revolution in the way that current affairs, as well as cornerstone ideas and facts concerning freedom, individual rights, capitalism and limited constitutional government are presented to, and considered by the general public.
More precisely, I defined my mission as being to create breakthrough “information warfare hyper-weapons,” which I define as follows:
An information warfare hyper-weapon is a knowledge tool and/or activism strategy that delivers vital facts regarding the most important, contentious issues facing our culture, in formats that the average person can easily grasp, validate as accurate, relate to their own lives, and share with others.
As a result of their efficiency, these information warfare hyper-weapon will produce measurable improvements in the general public’s (a) literacy regarding vital civic facts, and (b) confidence in using them to help hold elected and institutional leaders to account for the realities produced by their policies, and promises.
I have created the conceptual frameworks for a broad variety of both serious and funny information warfare hyper-weapons, including:
- Visualizations, simulations and VR applications
- Activism campaigns
- Motion pictures
- Streaming shows
- Documentaries
- Social media graphics, slide shows, and short videos
Regardless of their form, all of my information warfare hyper-weapons will possess three core attributes:
- Accountable: Everyplace a factual assertion is made, there is a clear pathway to the carefully-vetted, meticulously-organized evidence on which it is based
- Accessible: Each is designed from the ground up to meet the average person — and even adolescents — where they are, in terms of their civic knowledge, functional literacy and media usage preferences
- Benevolent: Each is based on the premise that the overwhelming majority of people who harbor false, anti-freedom perceptions, were misled and manipulated into doing so — yet with the proper approach, could be persuaded to support freedom
Strategically, my information warfare hyper-weapons will be designed to advance two core missions:
(1) To help demolish the most destructive lies that have been metastasizing throughout our culture, and rammed into our children’s heads, virtually without challenge, for decades
(2) To help publicly expose and defeat the most influential peddlers of these lies — especially those who financially profit from doing so — and anyone who materially enables them