"One thing is worth remembering, today, individual and collective human stories are screaming that the control of the world is impossible but violently destroying it, pushing it toward extinction is all too possible".
Introduction
Through this article I am mulling to draw a parallel between modern geopolitics and timeless human tendencies of violence, manipulation, domination, bullying, war, and storytelling as tools of control and survival. Despite all advancements, including technological and societal progress, global powers still use the same brutal tactics: colonial “divide and rule” strategies, cold war proxy conflicts, racism, nationalism, neo-Nazism, fascism and the exploitation of complicated biased religious differences. One thing is worth remembering, today, individual and collective human stories are screaming that the control of the world is impossible but violently destroying it, pushing it toward extinction is all too possible. The world has transformed into a labyrinth of complex yet fragmented systems among which there is no compatibility, only fundamental contradictions and hypocrisies. Core idea: Power abuse hasn’t evolved, it’s just better disguised.
“The Croods” story and Actual world processes
"Moreover, humanity’s grand narratives and celebrations of 'progress' often mask regression, like colonial empires boasting civilization while erasing cultures, or modern corporations touting sustainability as they raze forests".
It is logically and practically impossible, therefore absurd to discuss time traveling, whereas time is just a human perception. But we can create stories and turn them into visual narratives (any type of movies, videos, and graphic stories like comics and graphic novels) to understand our imaginations. The man-made world consists of this great instrument, which facilitates tangible archaeological ruins and other objectively interpretable written materials to become 2D and 3D stories like The Croods.
The cartoon story "The Croods" helped me structure, with great visualization, an understanding of how the so-called primitive world and the present world’s dynamics are slowly destroying forests, valleys, mountains, oceans, and animals and by doing this, gradually leading human beings to extinction along with their territories, cultures, civilizations, and stories, leaving behind only bare space for accelerated natural transformation to prevail. This story logically demonstrates the central role of general “privation” or relative “necessity” as the creative, inventive, and progressive power behind the entire man-made world. Further, The Croods reveal humanity’s self-destructive ingenuity.
Human beings are storytellers par excellence. Without this unique quality, a "man-made world" would be impossible. Thus, we can understand that human beings first invent stories and then live them is the logical pattern that defines all of human history. Therefore, through The Croods, in their artistic creativity, we see, while standing concretely in the present, how primitive human actions, reactions, and their consequences changed and transformed the world and humanity. In brief, I argue that what we are doing is creating different logical processes with relative qualities, simply fighting for survival yet raising a clamour of black rhetoric for everything, like a hen making a big noise after laying just one egg. Moreover, humanity’s grand narratives and celebrations of 'progress' often mask regression, like colonial empires boasting civilization while erasing cultures, or modern corporations touting sustainability as they raze forests.
Shadows of Invisible Hands: The Puppeteers of Modern War
"In any case, international politics today is far stranger than in the past. I imagine invisible hands and puppets firing relentlessly, killing children and women and the great international community is celebrating their strategies with satisfaction. So, if, as I said, international politics is a puppet show, then human history itself is a story we keep rewriting one where the lines between savagery and progress blur".
The world is always being plagued by its relative conflicts and wars, just like now in 2025. But the underlying current problems aren’t much different from ancient times, and neither are the basic tactics. Some obvious yet unprovable strategies remain concerning such as the politics of convenience, the politics of bullies, the politics of buying and selling consensus, and letting others do the dirty work.
Furthermore, when convenient, some countries have previously financed and supplied weapons to so-called terrorist and criminal groups (for example The U.S. funding of Mujahideen in Afghanistan, 1980s. To counter the Soviet Union, the U.S. armed groups that later became Al-Qaeda, fuelling decades of terrorism. This proxy strategy outsourced violence while maintaining a peacekeeping façade). They tolerate and ignore war crimes, clearly because it serves their interests or as a tactic to keep a country, a nation, group or an individual under control, preventing it from becoming a future threat. In any case, international politics today is far stranger than in the past. I imagine invisible hands and puppets firing relentlessly, killing children and women and the great international community is celebrating their strategies with satisfaction. So, if, as I said, international politics is a puppet show, then human history itself is a story we keep rewriting one where the lines between savagery and progress blur.
Stop Killings and Stop Looking Backwards
"Civilization itself demands we stop enabling those who hold the world hostage to fulfil their ambitions through brutality. Gaza is the starkest example: a land stolen for a playground of the wealthy, its people erased from their own homes, dismissed as “non-land”.
It seems absurd and out of place in an age of human rights to witness killings treated as routine. Every day, people kill one another more easily, even before these human rights documents existed. As a cultured and civilized individual, I find these killings deeply disturbing and disgusting. To me, they represent barbaric acts that disregard common cultural and civil agreements.
Those who kill, who knows for what purpose or by whose authority, carry out plans hidden from the civilized world. Among all the conflicts and wars in the world, the killings in Gaza concern me most. I don’t know who has given silent or direct approval to kill children, adolescents, women, and the elderly instead of the so-called terrorists, who rarely (if ever) die in these attacks. Nobody seems to care about the killers, why?
The shared principles of civilization demand an end to holding the world hostage for selfish gains no matter how barbaric or inhumane the methods. What’s happening in Gaza is especially alarming: we are now witnessing a luxury ‘free zone’ for the global elite, built on the forced expulsion and displacement of Palestinians from their so-called ‘non-land.
Conclusion - World dominant paranoid political traits
"The true danger today is paranoid leaders, whose actions threaten to infect entire world with their own delusions, turning shared history into a self-fulfilling prophecy of fear".
Paranoid individuals observe reality through bias and prejudice. Their convictions are more hostile than those of the average person. A paranoid "person" interprets unintentional behaviour of someone as deliberate or threatening. One can easily imagine certain national leaders operating under the same unfounded mistrust, making social cohesion and meaningful relationships impossible. Their mindset mirrors "the war of all against all." Worse, the paranoid individual is prepared to strike first consumed by the fear of being destroyed, they act swiftly to ensure survival.
Historical evidence undeniably proves the existence of "paranoid politics" in global affairs. Moreover, it is clear that such paranoia still permeates today’s political processes. Certain leaders of so-called great and powerful nations, along with allied groups of rulers and shadowy dominant forces, openly engage in the world’s most ruthless and deceitful games.
While economic manipulation may be tolerated, humanity is now witnessing something far worse: horrific, cruel, and abominable massacres of children, adolescents, women, and the elderly slaughtered; nurseries, schools, hospitals, and so-called holy sites bombed. These paranoid criminals not only commit such atrocities but also justify them, reinforcing their own delusions. Today the world is a shattered mirror. No cohesion. Only reflections of greed, fear, and the same old lies.
Finally, I affirm that while we all naturally experience a bit of paranoia and history, the truly paranoid endure a double affliction: tormented not only by the real world, like everyone else, but also by the jumbles of their own fantasies. Yet the gravest burden today lies in the fact that paranoid political leaders, through their actions, are dragging the entire world into a collective state of paranoia.
