@whiskey:
We’ve got the perfect storm — third world men (not poor either), ambitious and hungry and angry at being denied families seeking either 72 Virgins or brutal conquest to satisfy their basic sexual-companionship needs, and consumerized Western men substituting video games and porn for a real relationship as they are priced out of the relationship market, unwilling to fight and die for a society that gives them convenience. But not their own family.

elsewhere you wrote:
The fallacy of the Market State fantasy is that the intellectuals never figure on people gaming the system. Cheating. Violence is the proven way to cheat and win. just look at Russia OR Iran.

Yep. Another dimension of reality that Santa Clausewitz didn’t address, or did he? I guess, to try to stay on topic , I’d say that mass online thuggery is a new and unpredictable phenomenon which is only tangentially related to national loyalties. The gamer-generations are perfectly unrooted in a nation, a people or a place, so they are easy marks for ideologues and religious [including secularisti] yahoos.

I see the power of a 4+ competing globalization scenarios analysis at one level, but noting the rootless masses of disconnected [male] gamers around the world as an identifiable factor, albeit an incalculable one. A world surfeit of eager freebooters, desperately seeking pirate bands to join.