There are so many companies working on this now (cheap anti-drone tech, cheap cruise missiles, cheap missile interceptors), what you're saying is kind of moot.
Communities aren't fungible (in the sense that the actual particular culture and values of a particular group of people living in a particular area do have an extreme impact on that area) but also communities are not defined by particular areas that people live.
People who are from the same community tend to settle in particular areas and I think that is what the author is getting confused by.
Also many people in the developed world don't really have any community that they're a part of at all.
If you're interested in learning more about this you can look up the phrase "covenantal vs majestic community".
I bought one a few months ago off of ebay after I realized how important logarithms are in many different domains (including machine learning & information theory)
Making money and other types of material gratification has trumped ethics, notions of virtue and honor, and responsibility towards posterity in the general US population, the US ruling class, and US elites.
Ascribing this to just "US companies" is a cop-out or a cope. The US is in complete social collapse across the entire spectrum of society.
I am coming at this from a right-wing perspective.
The point isn't to debate whether fascism might be a good thing in some abstract indulgence of moral relativism. Rather the point is for us Americans who have woken up to how our country is being full on attacked to discuss ways we might resist.
This is nonsense and simply an expression of narcissism on the part of the authors, trying to fashion themselves in the style of Guardians from Plato's Republic.
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