Welcome to Plan VTV, the show about Vermont Independence, where every citizen is an entrepreneur, and every entrepreneur a citizen.

I'm Dr. Rob Williams, the publisher of

Vermont Independent.net, co-hosting today in our virtual studio is Brandon Zalina. Hi, Brandon.

And all the way from the sunny climbs of Western Japan, we are honored to have with us,

James Corbyn. James, welcome. Thank you for having me on today. It's a pleasure to be here.

It's really good to see you. Without further ado, I'm going to turn things over to Brandon.

James, you've recently written about an ongoing, world-changing war in which you claim that virtually

everyone on the planet is a combatant and where the battleground smolders between our very ears.

You were speaking about a little known concept called fifth generational warfare that you state is characterized by full spectrum dominance over every single aspect of our lives,

our movements and our interactions, our transactions, even our innermost thoughts and feelings and desires.

Can you speak to how in their efforts to wage

fifth generational warfare, the global oligarchs, misleaders, and powers who shouldn't be,

have weaponized narrative framing that weakens our cognitive defenses and subjugates largely

oblivious masses? What role do our cognitive biases play in this manipulation,

and can we devise strategies and tactics to become cognizant of those biases and mitigate

their effects?

It's quite the question.

Maybe I can solve cancer and find world peace while we're at it.

Well, all right, let me try to break this down because this truly is such an important

question on the most basic level of what it is the situation we find ourselves in.

So I've attempted to articulate this a number of times over the years.

By, for example, calling this World War III.

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