World War Three is Being Waged in Cyberspace

This article introduces the notion that World War III is not a military conflict, but a digital war for control of human consciousness. Sosteric argues that modern cyberwarfare—through bots, disinformation, and mass manipulation—is a systemic and coordinated assault on clarity, connection, and autonomy. This is a conflict not between states, but between control structures created by the (Accumulating Class)[https://spiritwiki.lightninpath.org/index.php/Accumulating_Class) and the rising human demand for truth, peace, healing, and reconnection.

Sosteric, M. (2017, October 4). World War Three is Being Wages in Cybersapce. The Conversation.

• Original URL: https://theconversation.com/world-war-three-is-being-waged-in-cyberspace-84974
• Canonical URL: https://repo.lightningpath.org/articles/journalistic-pieces/the-conversation/files/world-war-three-is-being-waged-in-cyberspace.pdf
• Keywords: Mode of Reproduction, Ideology, Disconnection, Mass Consciousness, Mechanisms of Compliance

Theoretical Integration

Deeply aligned with LP’s macro-frameworks:

• Global conflict framed as a digital assault on collective perception, manipulation of - Mass Consciousness: The strategic shaping of cultural perception through data and algorithmic weapons.
• Disconnection: The intended outcome of digital propaganda warfare.
• Centralization of narrative authority and control through platform capture and algorithmic targeting.

Relevance to Avatar.Global

This piece names the invisible digital battlefield on which LP’s work is engaged. It prepares readers to understand their own cognitive and emotional environments as targets in a global war and calls for the urgent defense of consciousness sovereignty.

Recommended for:

• Cyberliteracy and psychological resilience
• LP community protection protocols
• Educators teaching information warfare and sovereignty