The final power would thus be less one of imagination than of anticipation, so much so that to govern would be no more than to foresee, simulate, memorize the simulations; that the present "Research Institute" could appear to be the blueprint of this final power, the power of utopia.
The loss of material space leads to the government of nothing but time. The Ministry of Time sketched in each vector will finally be accomplished following the dimensfons of the biggest vehicle there is, the State-vector. The whole geographic history of the distribution of land and countries would stop in favor of a single regrouping of time, power no longer being comparable to anything but a "meteorology. " In this precarious fiction speed would suddenly become a destiny, a form of progress, in other words a "civilization" in which each speed would be something of a "region" of time.
As Mackinder said, forces of pressure are always exerted in the same direction . Now, this single direction of geopolitics is that which leads to the immediate commutation of things and places. War is not, as Foch claimed, harboring illusions on the future of chemical explosives, "a worksite of fire." War has always been a worksite of movement, a speed-factory. The technological breakthrough, the last form of the war of movement, ends up, with deterrence, at the dissolution of what separated but also distinguished, and this non-distinction corresponds for us to a political blindness.
We can verify it with General de Gaulle's decree of January 7, 1 9 5 9 , suppressing the distinction between peacetime and wartime. Furthermore, during this same period, and despite the Vietnamese exception that proves the rule, war has shrunk from several years to several days, even to several hours.
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