Is the world a terrible place?

A Girl with Flowers on the Grass
by Maris

Is the world a terrible place?
Thursday – September 18, 2025

The short answer to that question is yes and no. The world is indeed a terrible place, but it's not terrible in the way most people perceive of why the world is terrible; indeed most people completely miss why the world is a terrible place, or rather the things that actually have made the world a terrible place, but I will get back to those later. Of course, in turn the world is actually not that terrible in the ways people assume the world is bad. Indeed, today there's a lot of confusion about plenty of stuff, and one thing people seem to get very wrong is actually the material circumstances of the world and of most people living in the world. Actually, even though you won't know this by relying on your television or even worse the internet: there are actually far less people in the world starving today than in a long time, and on top of that there are actually far less wars and far less armed conflict in general, but you wouldn't get that listening for it online or on your radio/television. See the media, the people whose job it is to do "news" don't really care for or want you to focus on good things, because they want to come back and read about how terrible the world is, and it is terrible, but again I'll get back to that. Do you think there are more people dying every hour in 2025 than it was in 2015? Do you think that there are more people dying every day in 2025 than there were in 1945? If your answer to any or both of those questions was yes, then you'd be wrong. In fact, the world is incredibly stable and actually boringly stable right now, even though your picture of the world is likely different. Because of the advent of the internet in particular, people have been enabled to to live in informational bubbles if you will and in those bubbles they get into informational feedback loops, which basically warps their entire conception of the world. Basically, people become both brainwashed and completely disconnected from reality when they rely too heavily on the same informational landscape, and while the informational landscape has rapidly evolved in these last couple of decades, you must realize that most people simply haven't been able to co-evolve with that change, and as a result it has become very easy to manipulate people. Of course, this problem can only be expected to become worse as the march of technological progress continues towards that singular and post-human future. In fact, I believe that it is quite likely that democracy will fail precisely because people have too much "information" and because most people are quite frankly too stupid: when people vote they vote for people that don't like democracy, despite the fact that a lot of those people have been openly against democracy. The idea that people like or want democracy is just deeply flawed and not true: most people seem to like stability or at the very least the perception of stability, and without that people start to become more and more erratic and it also seems to me that people tend towards more and more collectivism, in the sense that they default to their immediate collective, their political tribe, and this doesn't simply refer to politics, a political tribe can be an ethnic or racial group as well; for me political tribes merely refer to the inherit politics both intra-tribe (inside the collective) and inter-tribe (between collectives) that intensifies when people become less and less unified, a topic that I will describe in a later post, but this goes to show how flawed the idea of some kind of universal or extra tribe really is. Human nature is quite simply and frankly not malleable to the materialistic and ideological intentions of the revolutionary elite, but most people do not and will not see this fact, which in itself is a tragedy and one aspect that surely has made the world a terrible place. To some extent the world is a terrible place because humans have decided to make the world a terrible place, but I will not cover that topic in any great detail in this post, since that is outside the scope of this post.

    Why and in what ways is the world terrible then? Well, I just described a couple of ways in which the world is terrible: when people are prosperous, and more so than at any other point in history, they still resent the world and they still act out of spite against the world and against the foundations of a sound world in the future. But the world is also a terrible place because of the profound spiritual decline that has undergone throughout the last millennia, and in this context it would seem rather contradictory that man's rise to become what he perceives to be God over the Earth should also be the very thing that he grown disdain for, to such an extent that it will become his own downfall, very much like a tale of Greek tragedy.

    I stated that the world is a terrible place, but that most people miss why it is a terrible place, and that this fact was one reason why the world is a terrible place. I would be remiss if I didn't mention other reason as to why I find the world to be a rather bad place: one reason is simply because we are living in the era of the Kali Yuga, which means that all primordial and original values are diminishing in strength; there are also other material considerations that make the world a terrible place, beyond war and hunger, but most people do not take those into consideration; and there is also a general lack of courage in the world, and this stems from the fact that the material abundance has in part been able to calm people, which in turn has made people weaker, for the material order promotes in men a weaker and more diseased constitution, something that men of the distant past didn't suffer from. Indeed, weakness and a lack of courage confluence in the modern world and creates a stream of utter hopeless confusion, and this can bee seen especially in the spiritual and the transcendental arena: very many modern men are spiritually confused but the material order has allowed their confusions to fester and remain both latent in themselves and within the larger culture. What I am trying to say is this: most men fall back on their default and immediate collectives once they become confused, and in the situation where the confusion, the mental illness, is allowed to govern and reign over such men, they gather in collectives of shared a common insanity, to the point where the insanity, the point of confusion, becomes a part of their identity, and this we reach the latest iteration of the Kali Yuga: the age of identity. This should be expected when men are lost on the high seas of modern confusions.

    What I've been describing or attempting to describe in this text is simply how the world is really in a rather decent shape materially, but it is also clear that he men of beastly character atop of that material order do not perceive of their own reign over the Earth, and this is precisely because of their diseased relation to the creator, all of our Jehovah, and instead they are endlessly worshiping the leitmotif of the ultimate and the final liberation from their own system, their own lust, and their own contradiction; this I refer to the spiritual dissonance of the material order, which indeed has accelerated the decline and the corruption of the moral boundaries of man. From my point of view there is however, no reason to fear, for the world is surely heading towards the deterministic and invariable close of the material order, and this should bring all men of far-seeing eyes decent encouragement. In the spiritual arena you make the world your friend or your enemy, but only you decide if you believe in creating a destiny bound for divine greatness. The world is a terrible place, because the humanist axiom has placed upon it a terrible pressure to perform in such a way that most cultures and most ancient wisdom's should become not only obsolete, but forgotten, until the humanist axiom has played out its role: the inception of the emerging post-political paradigm. The world is precisely a terrible place because the material order has produced good things, yet it has produced even more terrible things, such as more and more devastating wars, even if they are less frequent in modern times.

Reginald Drax – September 18, 2025.