In today’s rapidly emerging multipolar world, humanity has once again become disposable. The international order that once claimed to defend democracy, human rights, and collective peace has either collapsed or been hollowed out to symbolism. The ideals that once placed the human being at the center of global concern have been replaced by an unrestrained pursuit of material power.
War industries are now operating at full capacity. Weapons are being designed, manufactured, and traded at unprecedented speed, while institutions built to protect humanity are defunded, sidelined, or mocked. Instead of engineering a future for human progress, nation-states are engineering strategies for geopolitical survival: expanding alliances, reinforcing military blocs, refining deterrence systems, and reigniting arms races.
A world constructed without a vision for humanity invariably becomes a nightmare for humanity. Yet no leading power speaks of eliminating poverty, securing employment, advancing dignity, ensuring equality, or expanding opportunities for ordinary people. The global discourse revolves instead around oil, energy, artificial intelligence, rare earth minerals, surveillance capacity, strategic dominance, and military balance. Everything being contested today is materialistic rather than humanistic.
The tragedy of our era is not merely the revival of great power competition—it is the abandonment of the human being as the purpose of world progress. Humanity has been reduced to scrap in a world where might has become the new moral code and empathy an unaffordable cost.
Turmoil is manufactured in the name of regime change, and leaders who refuse to submit to dominant power narratives are sanctioned, isolated, or even kidnapped. A Hobbesian vision of global politics—where “might is right”—is making a dangerous return, pushing the world toward a condition where life becomes nasty, uncertain, and survival itself a hard-won achievement.
Regions once viewed as pillars of prosperity now stand at risk. Europe, once a model of stability and shared security, faces fragmentation and renewed militarization. Asia is entangled in historic rivalries and new geopolitical competitions. Latin America, long sidelined, is once again being pushed into ideological and political fires. The Middle East continues to burn under decades of conflict. Even East Asia is receiving unmistakable signals to join the arms race, with voices flirting openly with a nuclear future.
The emerging world order is not being constructed for humanity, but for power and privilege. Unless this course is reversed—unless a vision of global development anchored in dignity and human well-being is restored—the future will not simply be multipolar. It will be multipolar and merciless.
If the current trajectory persists, the future will not simply be multipolar—it will be multipolar and merciless. A world built without human vision cannot serve human destiny. When power becomes the sole compass of civilization, humanity itself becomes an endangered species.
We stand at a crossroads: either return the human to the center of global progress, or enter an age where human beings have no future in a world designed for machines, markets, and militaries.
