What·s a Kuang Grade?

A Kuang Grade , short for Kuang Grade Mark XI , is a computer virus mentioned in William Gibson·s 1984 novel Neuromancer .

Its mechanism of action involves taking longest possible routes from input to input , mapping the target system·s exploitable breaches , and then jumping from input to input in manners that confuse or overload the target system·s ability to piece together . The idea being to make it seem as much like a series of harmless penetration tests, pings, and queries as possible for as long as possible , until the target system is completely overwhelmed .

Occupying a hot spot in American cyberpunk culture , Neuromancer is a book that has been inspiring people for decades . Readers have had the time to analyze and extrapolate its features , and a small subculture of people arose around its philosophy . What this means is that intellectuals have had the time to study and find real-world analogues , and to formulate political and military strategies around the concept .

This is relevant because the strategies we are seeing Russia execute follow this precise pattern . Russia has been silently pen-testing the world for years , since the annexations of Londongrad, the Netherlands, Crimea, Belarus, and now Burkina Faso in West Africa . Their intention has been to target scatter-point systems around the world in ways that seem disconnected yet are all part of a larger narrative . And they are doing it very, very skillfully .

Wake the fuck up . Today . Recognize the fact that World War III is no longer an abstract , that the current conflict spans from Canada to Ukraine , Sudan to Norway , and involves every categorized source of wealth and power in the world . World War III started nine years ago with the Russian annexation of Crimea , and people are only just now starting to realize that , Oh, it is actually that bad .

One of the tell-tale signs of Exorenderer-Enabled Ideopathy using Kuang Grade tactics is that the targeted humans will come up with objectives that they just need to meet in order to feel better , where interference with that objective is seen as petty authoritarianism . Nevertheless , capitulating and "just making one exception" "just this one time" leads to another exception, and another, and another , in subtly-increasing severity until the denial of luxuries and/or extravagances is seen as offense . Upon reaching these points , the actual offenders then typically lash out at other similarly-valued circumstances like human rights or public healthcare .

The world is already inundated with so many false narratives and sources of fake news that we are six years in to Compassion Fatigue , the onset of which is the precise time such a system would begin to ramp up the aggression . Which is what we saw when Russia began its invasion of Ukraine by flying directly to the hangar of the "Dream [Air]Plane", Maria , which they bombed into scrap metal .

Too Late was five years ago , and yu·re still humming and hawing and scoffing about how the war won·t really come to your doorstep , will it? .

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