Space, we are told, is “the final frontier.” And you can bet your bottom dollar that where there’s a frontier, there’s a gaggle of oligarchs looking to stick their snoot into it.

That’s why it didn’t come as much of a surprise when the laughably named “North Atlantic” Treaty Organization declared in 2019 that outer space is now one of the alliance’s “operational domains.”

. . . or when the NATO gang pledged $1 billion last year to “improve the sharing of intelligence from national and commercial reconnaissance satellites.”

. . . or when the “vice chief of space operations” [<–actual title!] of the US Space Force [<–actual branch of the Department of Defense!] warned last month that “China is practicing ‘dogfighting’ satellites as part of its expanding capabilities in space” [<–actual neo-Red Scare propaganda!].

All of this outer space hype might lead you to believe that the real battles of the 21st century are going to be taking place above Earth.

But, with all due respect to Captain Kirk and his crew, space is not the final frontier, and whatever fireworks are taking place up in the night skies is simply a distraction from the real battle taking place down here on Earth.

Yes, as it turns out, outer space isn’t the next great battlespace. Inner space is.

The great war of our times is not the war for the galaxy; it’s the war for the mind. That war has been going on for a lot longer than most people believe, and recent technological developments have made the battle for your brain much more literal than most people comprehend.

Today, let’s peel back the layers of deception and reveal the primary battleground of this fifth-generation war on us all: the space between your ears.