Observations About the World, Part Twenty-Six

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The State of the World |
Sunday – March 15, 2026

Wars*, political troubles, a changing "world order", the internet, and general confusion... These are the topics of the day and indeed our times, and quite frankly it would seem that the state of the world is quite dire, and this observation would be true, but only from a metaphysical point of view. See, from a material and corporeal point of view, the state of the world has never been closer to complete material victory, and erasure of the essence within the substantive, a disconnect of sorts from the primordial body, and indeed it seems quite strange that so many people should be up in arms about the state of the world, until you consider, again, the informational landscape, that is, and the propagation of sentimentalism; if there ever was a time to be a modern man, it would be now, although this seems quite obvious if you take a progressive and linear approach to the course of history, yet these people, the moderns, seem more disillusioned than ever. Well, part of this is, as I just mentioned, due to the constant noise emitted from the outrage machine that is news and media, particularly in this "age of the internet", but also because fear and anxiety are great tools for the revolutionary elite, tools they rely on to control the narrative and the population, and of course in true "post-modern" and totalitarian fashion, controlling the population is less and less about controlling the narrative as such, and more and more about destroying the concept of truth, something that, indeed, should cause great disillusion among the masses, read "The End of History". Whatever "truth" is today, it seems almost something completely fluid and instantaneous, something that indeed has approached the limit of the "reasoned" order; truly, it seems quite impossible to keep up. There are, as previously mentioned, many ongoing wars, read about Iran and Ukraine; social strife; and general confusion, but consider again the fact that, so far, all of these conflicts are quite small in scale compared to conflicts in the modern past such as the World Wars.

    So, why are people so depressed and anxious today, why are they so aware of the "state of the world"? Well, part of it is due to the increasingly individualist and egalitarian nature of the world: in a world where each man is his own island and his "own man", more and more aspects of the world that ordinary should make no immediate impact on him are made to affect him on a very personal level, almost in a very private and intimate sense, which means that he, as an individual citizen, must take part in all of the continual and instantaneous commotion of the world; he is not allowed to be the keeper of his own domain where he is serenely anchored, and consequently the world appears quite chaotic and unstable, and truly it is this egalitarian sense of a common destiny, the democratic ethos, that has enabled the latest course in the deviation, a prerequisite for the state of our contemporary world.

    Take the example of an increasing oil price, this due to the current war on Iran: why should so-called "ordinary" men, in any way, be impacted by this and why should the world "grind to a halt" over this? Well, these questions are, of course, too vast to be answered in a satisfying and complete way, but there are two problems here: the first problem is completely material in character, and that is the fact that the industrial and material order runs on oil, and without oil the world will indeed "grind to a halt"; but secondly, and perhaps more importantly, the fact that mere "ordinary" men are all "equal" in the course of events, is not some naïve notion of humanism; no, humanism is actually, as I alluded to earlier, a prerequisite for materialism to flourish, each man has to be brought down to the lowest level of being in order to enable the quantification necessary to bring the world away from the natural and normal "course of events", and this is why it can be concluded with a great certainly, that indeed, we are living in the Kali Yuga. Yes, the oil price is running high because of the actions taken by the belligerent nations in the War on Iran, and this is expected to cause inflation, as price spikes on oil will propagate across the entire economy, and then some more, because the fact is that price increases themselves tend to cause more price increases; and indeed the world has already been through a major episode of inflation, that episode also due to warfare and social commotion.

    Of course, it should be noted that most people have a very modern view of money or coinage, and as the scholars would point out: money is the most "secularized" and quantified aspect of the modern world; where coinage was treated quite differently in the past, whatever is left of this once sacred institution is now merely a question of the positive or negative flow of numbers representing the supposed "value" of the substantive. Indeed, if the coinage at one point used to represent something essential, money, in the modern sense, only attempts to represent the substantive, something quite quantifiable. This is why money is a very great indication of the general mentality of the moderns: if money is "cheap", that generally means that people are happy to spend money and to borrow money; but if money is "expensive", something that seems impossible today, that used to generally mean that people were unwilling to spend money and to borrow money, but since the even more monstrous "reinvention", during the previous century, of money in connection to the propagation and intervention in the individual sphere of the state, it seems that money can only keep losing its value, as money slowly deviated away from something sacred that was issued by the spiritual authority in the land, to something issued by the temporal powers and always tied to something more or less material, and today where money has become something completely illusory and imaginary in the form of the "fiat" currency. If this cannot speak for the stupidity, ignorance, and paralyzation caused by the critical mass of the populist hordes, then nothing can.

    Yes, the state of the world is dire, but the moderns lack the proper knowledge to skillfully discern the true state of the world, and whatever these people think in each moment of their own world and the world at large, they are only influenced by the latest "trend", by the latest narrative, and the latest course of change. It is however, somewhat encouraging that many people have within them some spark of insight, some intuition, fading and almost latent though it may be, of something supra-intellectual, of something beyond the material order, or perhaps better put in other words: it seems that the source of much of the common anxiety today is a certain sense that something has been lost, and if people in the past still had some sense of belonging or proper placement in the world, this is completely gone today and the approximate cause of the ever increasing commotion and confusion; the world is approaching complete metaphysical rupture and even the least spiritually capable men, which today would be the vast preponderance, can sense the tremors of the divine vengeance to come. Yes, the state of the world is dire, not in that way...

Reginald Drax – March 15, 2026.