March to Perdition
This book was written by Salim Maloof, posted on June 01, 2022
Throughout history, many kings and emperors returned from successful war against adversaries grieved at the overwhelming suffering and loss of life they had brought to the land. Many of these rulers were determined to become better leaders, choosing to govern not through force but by upholding the law. Those who stayed faithful to their pledge managed to transform their kingdom or empire into a stable, humane state. Those who refused to abandon violence were defeated and reverted to a simpler form of governance, often leading to chaos and instability, contrary to what they planned.
In 1945, the victors of WW2 (the old powers) proclaimed that they were outraged with the violence, disregard, and contempt for human rights they lived through during World War II. They proclaimed that the barbarous acts that they lived through have outraged their conscience and that their aspiration was to transform the world into a land in which all human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want.
To achieve their aspirations, the victors of WW2 (the old powers) appointed the United States the global policeman of the world and created a new international intergovernmental organization, which they named the United Nations, to help them coordinate their work in UN member states.
The victors of WW2 (the heirs of the old powers), the global policeman (the United States), the international intergovernmental organization named the United Nations, and their critical thinkers and servants (governments and non-state actors) in UN member states have brought the state of peace and security in the world to the pre-WW2 level. All the proposals that they have made have been controversial. Instead of people around the world promoting friendly relations without distinction of any kind, such as race, color, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth, or other status, they are reaffirming faith in distinctions, traditions, tribalism, etc., to levels that are worse than what the case was before WW2.
Navigation between the different interests of the traditions or distinctions is only possible when each person honors the standards suggested in the UN Charter or the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) instead of working to secure that others honor his convictions.
The unpreparedness of the victors of WW2 (the heirs of the old powers); the global policeman, the United States; the international intergovernmental organization named the United Nations; and their critical thinkers and servants (governments and non-state actors) to cooperate in accordance with the standards suggested in the UN Charter or the UDHR is compelling them to have recourse to ruling autocratically.
The decision of the victors of WW2 (the heirs of the old powers) to let their global policeman, the United States; the international intergovernmental organization named the United Nations; and their critical thinkers and servants (governments and non-state actors) in UN member states secure the rejuvenation of their power using tyranny and oppression cannot keep the peace in the world. This plan prevents the strengthening of the rule of law and hinders social progress, as well as the improvement of living standards and greater freedom.
The book March To Perdition explores the threats that the victors of WW2 (the heirs of the old powers) could be subjecting their power to after they deviated away from the work program of moral conduct that their fathers outlined in the UN Charter or the UDHR and preferred to swap it with a work program that is based on violence and disagreement at a time when mankind does not know if the intellectual confrontations that the world is knowing can be a powerful formative period in the human experience to rejuvenate their power or a threat.
Specifically, the work examines the decision of the victors of WW2 (the heirs of the old powers) to let non-state actors such as the international intergovernmental organization named the United Nations become an economic operator in the aftermath of WW2, which is not something that the fathers of the heirs of the old powers counselled them to do. The work shows that the decision of the victors of WW2 (the heirs of the old powers) to let the United Nations become an economic operator has not rewarded the officials at this organization for working diligently to establish order but for becoming disloyal. The more UN officials enjoy privileges and immunities while offering political and economic solutions in UN member states, the more their increased authority makes them restless, difficult, and dangerous, potentially undermining the stability of the very nations they are meant to assist.
The objective of the work is to argue that if the victors of WW2 (the heirs of the old powers) do not disempower the United Nations and restore its original role in coordinating the efforts of UN member states as outlined in the UN Charter, they pose a serious threat to themselves, to their global enforcers, the United States, and to the Anglosphere.
The US, the guardian of freedom, and the Anglosphere should not collapse. This is because such a development would mean that the world would be throwing away the understanding that mankind spent the last one thousand years trying to bring to its present level.