Benighted Rest-of-Society

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Benighted Rest-of-Society (B-R-o-S) is a concept introduced by Eric Weinstein at the ARC conference in February 2025.

Amazingly, many of you do not know about the Whole-of-Society approach. The Whole-of-Society approach is an innovation that came out of the Asia-Pacific Security Center, named after Daniel Inouye, in the Pacific. And it basically says that the institutions of a society must be aligned to fight hybrid wars in the modern era. Now, if you think about that, you will realize that that is a very complicated name for soft fascism.

Literally, the fascia is what binds together these institutions. And if you've ever tried to say, well, if I don't go to the New York Times, can I go to the Washington Post? Can I go to The Times of London, the BBC, NPR? All of these people appear to be in lockstep. This is coordinated through the Whole-of-Society approach, and because they have chosen the name for it, we will call them Wh-o-S.

Now let's talk about these Wh-o-S. Are they truly the Whole of Society? That's what they would have us believe. But somehow many of us didn't get the message. Many of us didn't get the call. And none of you got the terminology. So what are we if we are not part of society? I would put to you that we are the Benighted Rest-of-Society.

ARC represents the B-R-o-S, Benighted-Rest-of-Society, fighting Klaus and Davos and the World Economic Forum, who at least know that there's a war when we do not. That gives them a certain advantage. Or at least it did. And I'm hoping that this changes with this talk. The new Culture War Hypothesis is that the Culture War is Domestic Hybrid War.

I've called it the No-Name Revolution since 2017. You are in the middle—sorry, maybe you're at the end, hopefully—of the No-Name Revolution, which was real and kinetic. It burned buildings and gas stations. People died in the streets. Maybe not that many, but it was an actual Hybrid War.

- Eric Weinstein, Why the West Is Waking Up From a 70 Year Nap, February 2025