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Iran’s recent conflict was the first truly impersonal war humanity has ever witnessed.
Fifteen countries were involved.
More than 100 days of death and destruction passed.
Yet, not a single human soldier set foot on enemy territory.
No land was seized. No physical resources were captured.
The war did not take place on land, on water, or in the air.
Iran sustained itself through missiles.
This was a war waged in space and silicon.
Destruction at a Distance
Without ever meeting physically, humans can now destroy one another.
Strangely, when peace arrives, physical interaction is equally absent.
The Presidents of the United States and Iran signed a peace MoU online.
Two digital signatures.
Destruction and construction no longer require physical proximity.
Ideas fight ideas.
Ideas arrive at peace with ideas.
To survive in this new environment, we must adapt fast.
We must start behaving differently.
The Empathy Matrix
We need strategic thinking that factors in the other side’s feelings.
Simultaneously, we must deeply understand how feelings impact their logic.
Peace happened because of emotional and intellectual alignment:
· Iran understood that the USA needed to feel victorious. Iran gave up its nuclear ambitions, giving the US that emotional win.
· The USA understood that unless it gave up its stubbornness over the Strait of Hormuz—which Iran had thoughtfully secured—Iran would see no logic in a deal.
The war ended because one side managed the other's emotions, while the other side respected the other's logic.
The Dissolving Physical World
The coming times will be fascinating.
We will see fewer human-to-human physical contacts.
Yet, we will see magnitudes more collaboration.
People who never meet will impact the world
-in monumental ways.
The physical human is evaporating.
The mental human has shaped up.
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