Reflecting on the past decade, it dawned upon me that clerics, from shamans to priests to imams, have historically be fond of blessing acts of war (and sometimes war itself) and celebrating their consequences, while they don't appear to participate in the same way in acts of police.
In the computer theology (Computer Theology, Midori Press, 2008, p. 373) recursive hierarchy of trust and policy infrastructures, that would mean that wars involve trust infrastructures, while police involves policy infrastructures.
So war would be about trust, or the lack thereof. One analysis would be that as long as two parties' trust infrastructures are compatible, everything goes fine, but when the context (or the trust infrastructures themselves) changes, incompatibilities demand resolution.
In Computer Theology (p. 141), we emphasize that, under breach of the trust that consolidates it, the social ecosystem is quick to revert to the physical ecosystem. That would reinforce that analysis. War would be an act of trust, albeit externally oriented, police an act of policy, internally oriented. Trust being a religious matter, clerics come into play on the war theater.
That begs the question of today's context or trust infrastructure changes. Might be one of those context changes the radical shift in information sharing brought in the past two decades by the Internet, that shaped a new perception of economic realities?
Bertrand du Castel
In the computer theology (Computer Theology, Midori Press, 2008, p. 373) recursive hierarchy of trust and policy infrastructures, that would mean that wars involve trust infrastructures, while police involves policy infrastructures.
So war would be about trust, or the lack thereof. One analysis would be that as long as two parties' trust infrastructures are compatible, everything goes fine, but when the context (or the trust infrastructures themselves) changes, incompatibilities demand resolution.
In Computer Theology (p. 141), we emphasize that, under breach of the trust that consolidates it, the social ecosystem is quick to revert to the physical ecosystem. That would reinforce that analysis. War would be an act of trust, albeit externally oriented, police an act of policy, internally oriented. Trust being a religious matter, clerics come into play on the war theater.
That begs the question of today's context or trust infrastructure changes. Might be one of those context changes the radical shift in information sharing brought in the past two decades by the Internet, that shaped a new perception of economic realities?
Bertrand du Castel
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