CZM Book Club: Cool Zone 2054: Reports From the Dino War: The War in Review
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Book club, book club, book club, book club. It's the Cool Zone Media Book Club, the book club where you don't have to do the reading because I do the reading for you. Except this month at Cool Zone Media Book Club, we're doing something a little different. You see, we here at Cool Zone Media received a missive from the future. Episodes of our own podcasts from 30 years from now, from the year 2054.

and we're happy to share them with you. Welcome back to Cool Zone 2054, reports from the Dino War, your weekly source for everything World War 3.5, everything from the World Civil War, or as we like to call it, the Dino War. I'm your host, Margaret Kiljoy, and this week is our once-a-year recap of where we are in the year of our Lord, 2054, and how we got here.

Don't worry, next week we'll be back with all your favorite on-the-ground reporting. But this week, we're going to speedrun the last, I don't know, 10 years or so of world history. We're two years into the Dino War, and it is worth understanding what got us here. Or, as General Lichterman always says, you can't know what direction you're going to go if you don't know what direction you were already going. But first, it wouldn't be the year 2054 if we didn't shout out our most generous sponsor,

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For the hundred twenty years between World War II and World War III, people figured World War III would end all life on Earth. It would be the last war ever. For the whole second half of the 20th century, yeah, yeah, some of us are old enough to remember the 20th century, people lived in fear of nuclear Armageddon. Figured the next war would be nukes dropping this way and that way. End of the world as we know it. Turns out, no. No one really wanted to blow up the entire world as it happened.

World War III didn't kick off as a hot war until the autonomous weapon platforms got going in earnest. We didn't get a nuclear war. We got the AWP war, the AWP war, the six-month war, the robo war, World War Terror, long 2044. Call it what you want.

We here at Cool Zone Media track the roots of World War III to all the usual sources. The long Russian stalemate in Ukraine, the Palestinian genocide, and the failed Turkish annexation of northeastern Syria. After the U.S. formally left both NATO and the U.N. in 2041, and the world's premier military power saw its economy fall into a tailspin, there was a terrifying power vacuum.

November 2043, or "Murder Month" as our own Robert Evans probably shouldn't have called it, saw world leaders, CEOs, human rights activists, and media influencers all assassinated at a terrifying rate. Some of those people I'll mourn, some of them I won't. Then all of December was eerily quiet. Then, with the fireworks of the new year, the war started in earnest.

Turkey invaded Kurdistan. Germany rolled tanks into Poland again, though to be fair, this time it was to liberate the country from Russia. The U.S. invaded Mexico and Ireland. Mexico invaded the U.S. The Second Chinese Revolution kicked off, taking them out of the fight more or less completely, all in one week. It was a four-way war.

The U.S. and its proxies, like Israel and the U.K., were at war with the EU, were at war with BRICS, minus China, were at war with the U.S., and, of course, the Alliance of the Global South declared war on, quote, anyone who attempts to station troops, materiel, or infrastructure in any of our territories, which meant they were at war with everyone else, too. That's how the war looked if you zoomed out far enough. On the ground, it was just a war of machines versus people.

If you're old enough to listen to this podcast, you're old enough to remember the war, and you probably don't want to be reminded in detail. So we're not going to linger too long on those six terrible months. It was nasty. Drones everywhere, killing all kinds of people. Despite all the claims world leaders made about the higher moral standards of artificial intelligence, all the claims made of the precision targeting available to autonomous drone swarms and quadruped AWPs,

It was the civilians who got it the worst in the Op War. Same as always. All four sides of the war targeted journalists, doctors, and civilian engineers with at least as much ferocity as they targeted enemy soldiers, drone programmers, and drones. More than a hundred years ago, during World War I, the anarchist Dada artist Hugo Ball spoke prescient words. Quote, "...the war is founded on a glaring mistake. Men have been confused with machines."

as true in 2044 as it was in 1916. That's the quote you so often hear attributed to him these days. But a year earlier, he said something similar, yet fantastically, fatally wrong.

In 1915, he wrote, quote, The war is based on crass error. Men have been mistaken for machines. Machines, not men, should be decimated. At some future date when only the machines march, things will be better. Then everyone will be right to rejoice when they all demolish each other. If the machines had only fought the machines, the world would be a better place and so many more of our friends would be in it.

It is, of course, simply terrifying how efficiently machines can kill without resorting to nuclear weapons. A billion dead. That's never happened before. A billion dead. The population of the Earth didn't even hit one billion until the year 1804. And 240 years later, a billion people died in six months. What a great place to transition to ads! I've been doing this for 33 years now, and it never gets old transitioning to ads in inappropriate places.

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40 million soldiers were killed in combat. 200 million civilians were killed by bullets and bombs and mortars and mines. 500 million people were taken to their grave by the deer flu. The rest, of course, died of hunger and thirst and lack of access to medical care. A billion people, about 10% of the human population, died in 2044. And I am certain that includes someone you know. Only six nukes went off over the course of the war, killing about a million people.

a tenth of a percent of the total war dead. Washington, D.C., Tel Aviv, St. Petersburg, those cities simply aren't there anymore. Two more blasts went off at weapon facilities in Pakistan. And of course, the sixth blast was the Idaho incident, when a white Christian nationalist organization called God's Hammer failed to prove the superiority of the white race, stealing a warhead from a U.S. facility only to accidentally detonate it in their own compound outside of Wallace, Idaho.

It was civilians who suffered under the war, and it was civilians who ended it. Vishnu Freyar Elohim, or VIFI for short, was an international consortium of engineers from every side of the war that met in secret and developed the suite of weapons that rendered autonomous weapon platforms obsolete.

Most famous of these, of course, are the two weapons that ended the war. In April, they unveiled the tactical EMP, a weapon that destroys electronics without harming life or non-electrical infrastructure. At the end of May, they released the first prototype of the Vishnu shield, a static EMP field that can shield an entire geographic area from electronics that can run for hours at a time on a shockingly low amount of power.

By month four of the war, soldiers from every army, both enlisted and officers, regularly mutinied and deployed tactical EMPs supplied by Viffy, stationing themselves at population centers and attacking drones from every army. By month six, the Vishnu shield had been deployed by desperate civilians in nearly every country in the world, and the war ground to a halt.

The governments of India, the Scandinavian Federation, and what's once more called Palestine were immediately overthrown, while every government in the world, especially those of the major belligerent powers, faced crises of legitimacy that they have yet to recover from. So ended World War III. For eight years or so, we had something resembling peace.

Very few cities opted to keep their Vishnu shields running full-time, of course. Modern life, especially in an era of extreme heat, requires regular access to power. Although clockmakers have advanced some amazing new marvels, like the self-powered clockwork insulin pumps, Helsingborg, Sweden was the largest municipality to declare itself a non-electric space by a three-quarters majority vote of its citizens.

And ten years later, it remains the most famous large-scale example of conscious deindustrialization and is a hub for the Neo-Luddite movement. And we're not just saying that because their tourist board is one of our sponsors. For eight years after the war ended, journalists and ideologues called World War III the last possible world war. I might have slipped up and said as much on this very show.

Daniel informs me that I said it on our August 6th, 2047 episode, the one where I went to that new anarchist pacifist town in Germany that they named Omalas, built in the ruins of Munster. It's a good episode anyway, it gets into the deep radical history of that city, and also has clips of me asking, like, 15 German pacifists in my really bad German, why the hell they named their town after a thought experiment about how not to have a utopia.

World War III was the last possible war because it was a war between states that was ended by the courage that the people themselves, both civilians and soldiers, had to stand up to those states. It was the war that declared for once and for all that people power was more powerful than state power. How could you have a war without a state? How could you have a war without the ability to deploy electronics on a modern battlefield? Where there's a will, there's a way.

Much like there's a way for me to transition to ads right now. I didn't just bring up Helsingborg because their tourist board is one of our major sponsors of the show. I promise you. But they are. Are you tired of the electrical life? Tired of doom scrolling? Tired of online dating? Do you long for the simple life, the good life? Do you dream of chopping wood to heat your apartment? Working cooperatively to meet your needs without the hub and the bub of the modern world? But you still like city life?

Do you want to spend your evenings at tea houses and saunas, talking of the issues of the day through word of mouth? Helsingborg, Sweden, is the largest de-electrified urban area in the world, and the Scandinavian Federation is open to all immigrants, regardless of national origin. Thanks to the wonders of Fast Turnaround Vinyl, you can even keep up with your favorite podcasts on only a two-day delay from the electrical world. Helsingborg, come on over.

Remember to write Cool Zone Media on your visa application where it asks where you heard of them to help support the show. Do not consider moving to a Vishnu-shielded area if you rely on a pacemaker or other electrical aids. Three-year mandatory service in the armed or civilian forces of the Scandinavian Federation required of all new residents over the age of 16. All Scandinavian residents between the ages of 16 to 70 required to participate in the defense of the territory in the event of nationalist incursion. Offline life does not guarantee to solve depression, bipolar disorder, or any other mental health condition. There is no such thing as a climate haven, and natural disaster can strike anywhere in the world.

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Some people say that World War 3.5 started in Mexico in 2050, five years into the Magonista and Zapatista revolt against the cartels. Suddenly, a huge chunk of the ostensibly democratic government stopped siding with the cartels and started siding with the rebels, and an all-out civil war broke out.

Other people say that World War 3.5 started in the Turkish regions of Kurdistan, when in 2051 the YPJ announced the expansion of the Roshavan Project and declared for democratic confederalism, joined by Iranian feminists and other leftists from across Swana, just as the Turkish government collapsed under the weight of popular protests in favor of multiculturalism, only to pave the way for the far-right gray wolves to ascend into power in about half the territory of the former country.

Still others say that World War 3.5 started in Idaho, when those buffoons blew themselves up with a nuke, becoming martyrs to ultra-nationalists of every stripe around the world. None of whom, I am sad to say, have thus far followed the specific tactical precedent set for them by God's hammer.

It's made for a good update of the old follow your leader graffiti. That graffiti which used to feature a stencil of Hitler blowing his own brains out and now features a stencil of Henrik Olofsson. That's not his real name. He was born Tony Rossi in Brooklyn, New York, holding a nuclear bomb and staring at it incredulously. World War 3.5 is the first world civil war or the first world revolution, depending on how you look at it. Civil war and revolution are functionally synonyms.

No longer are nation-states duking it out with other nation-states like the 20th century. Nor are nation-states duking it out with non-state actors like the early 21st century. This war, our war, is a war between nationalism and internationalism. A war in the heart of every country on earth. Still, it's hard to fight a modern war without modern technology.

So, I don't pin the start of World War 3.5 on the Magonistas and the Zapatistas in Mexico. I don't pin it on the Democratic-Confederalists in Suana. I don't pin it on the Accelerationist bozos and compounds in Idaho. I don't pin it on the Baltimore Commune. I don't pin it on the Pan-African Alliance for Democracy and Cooperation. I don't pin it on that bizarre red-brown alliance in Russia, the new Soviet Red Army. I don't pin it on El Poder del Pueblo. I don't pin it on the new CCP.

I pin the start of World War 3.5 on a group of scientists working in Helsinki, Finland. I pin it on the people who started cloning dinosaurs. We've covered the rebirth of dinosaurs numerous times on this show before, of course. If you'd like to hear us talk about it in more depth, I recommend a few episodes.

July 2052's four-part The Rise of the Dino Rider series gets into it in more depth. But of course, Garrison Davis' excellent Why Are All the Pterodactyl Jockeys Gay as Hell from February 2053 remains one of our most listened to episodes ever. And Molly Conger's episode of Weird Little Guys from December 2047 about Aldous Bentley III presages the whole thing. So just saying, more detail is available. But in short, let's see.

I've been writing history podcasts for almost half my life now, and one thing I've learned is that whenever there's a single person credited for this or that scientific or ideological achievement, it's never the full story. Helmi Koskinen is the name you'll hear most often, though. They call her Petujan Ayete, the Mother of Beasts, the most famous molecular paleontologist in the world.

Which would have been an easy title to wind up with 20 years ago, but it's competitive as hell these days. But let's be honest, the reason she's remembered more than her team is that she served as the spokesperson for Cold Lab Cooperative, and that she was gunned down on television the day she announced the first successful de-extinction of a dinosaur, a triceratops named Trike, which then gored her assassin as the world looked on. March 13th, 2049. You probably know where you were that day.

Cold Lab Cooperative wasn't in the war business. They were in the climate change adaptation business. But the technology they developed, with substantial contributions from Koskinen, who was certainly more than a talking head, absolutely changed the game on cloning. Pedants will tell you that what they do isn't cloning at all, but ex vivo genesis. But that name never really stuck.

Not in the popular imagination. Soon, labs all over the world were de-extincting animals of every sort. Soon after that, labs all over the world were cross-breeding humans and animals into what are called biospawn, and even resurrecting living tissue. Though, of course, to date, no one has brought back a human corpse that retained anything in the way of personality, intelligence, or memory. And soon enough after that, we went to war.

At the council in Lagos, the Confederated Democratic Territories agreed to a very specific set of limitations on the use of ex vivo genesis. Only previously existing animals could be cloned. No monsters, the rule states. The Lagos Accord was soon agreed upon by people all over the world. Other people, of course, refused to listen. And by 2052, the world's civil war began in earnest.

On our side, the internationalist side, we have brave dino riders wielding non-electric firearms. On the enemy side, the nationalist side, there are zombies resurrected from the dead, shambling across the fields of battle to eat everything in their way. There are soldiers twisted and crossbred into nightmarish creatures ravaged by pain and rage.

There are hideous, crawling biospawn the size of houses that shriek and sob their way towards their objectives, ridden by cruel masters who steer them through city streets with hooks and prods. For the first few decades of the 21st century, it was out of vogue to conceive of things as either good or evil. But this war, the Dino War, it's a war of the living versus the liminal.

A war of freedom versus tyranny. A war of kindness versus cruelty. A war of dinos versus zombies. A war we're going to win. And yeah, those of us at Cool Zone Media, we're biased. That doesn't mean we're wrong. We're not winning right now, to be honest. Nor are we losing.

The fighting is fierce all across the world. New national borders creep up and collapse every day. And it's hard to keep up with exactly how everything is going. There are only a few true strongholds on either side. Nigeria, the Scandinavian Federation, the Free Territory of California, and coastal Argentina are firmly in the hands of the internationalists and have been since day one. Istanbul, St. Petersburg, Johannesburg, they're on the other side.

That's it for our recap. We hope you join us again next week for another episode of Cool Zone 2054, Reports from the Dino War, where I'll be giving you my report back, plus some live coverage from Helsinki DinoCon.

And just here for plugs at the end, I still have my Substack going. It is 30 plus years going strong. Margaret Kiljoy, you can find me on Substack. And also my 74th Danielle Kane book is coming out very soon. Early next year, in fact, after I restarted the Danielle Kane series in 2025.

It Could Happen Here is a production of Cool Zone Media. For more podcasts from Cool Zone Media, visit our website, coolzonemedia.com, or check us out on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. You can find sources for It Could Happen Here updated monthly at coolzonemedia.com slash sources. Thanks for listening.

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