The Writing on the Wall

“Mirrors for Princes” were common textbooks in antiquity that directly instructed kings and princes on certain aspects of governance and behavior. The aim of this literary work was to draw on various historical and religious sources to create images of kings for imitation or avoidance. Confucius suggested that three golden standards can help kings or princes when rules are no longer sufficient to make people ready to obey or when the only certainty is uncertainty. Confucius suggests that virtue, justice, and decisiveness are critical for any ruler to remain forward-looking, dynamic, and capable of innovation. Such standards ensure that rulers remain integrated into a wider comparative framework of world history and do not decay, provoking citizens to withdraw their obligation to obey. If any of those three golden standards were to break down, society would cease to function properly.

Throughout history, all kingdoms and empires experienced a golden age, then gradually entered into a period of all-encompassing dynamism, order, and disorder in institutions and society, from which the monarch or empire never managed to recover, i.e., lasting until its dissolution.

Strangely, despite the political, economic, and social reset that World War Two prompted, the victors of WW2 did not experience a golden age yet, and since 1945, the state of peace and security in the world has been changing for the worse continuously.

The book “The Writing on the Wall” is a thesis that examines how the decision by the victors of WW2 to deviate from the work program recommended by the founding fathers of the UN to solidify their powers and ensure lasting peace in favor of allowing the intergovernmental organization named the United Nations to provide political, economic, social, and cultural solutions in morality and human rights could be the principal cause of order and disorder in states and societies worldwide.

The work tries to explain how governments are obliged to value force instead of rationality and freedom after the victors of WW2 granted the right to the intergovernmental organization named the United Nations to become an economic operator and to start to preach human rights just as the early Christian converts were doing after the death of Jesus. This strategy ultimately contributed to the gradual collapse of the Roman Empire over time.

The work tries to highlight the threats that could await the victors of WW2 if they continue to allow the intergovernmental organization named the United Nations to be a den of thieves and a place that its administrators buy and sell just as Jesus found the authorities’ doing when he visited a temple in Jerusalem. Most importantly, the work tries to show how all the civil wars that erupted as of 1945 were not motivated because the wealthy demanded to balance their interests against the interests of the common good, but rather it was the intergovernmental organization United Nations, the foreign aid agencies that governments operate through their embassies, NGOs, international aid agencies, charities, etc. that were impatient and that provoked the poor to be impatient. This scenario signifies that mankind could be in the midst of a world revolution that those human development agencies have ignited.

Clearly, all the kingdoms and empires that fell apart did so because their rulers and thinkers were wrong. The kingdom and empire that were reverted to a simpler form failed to read the writing properly on the wall just as King Belshazzar, the son of Nebuchadnezzar, did in antiquity. The book “The Writing on the Wall” is a call to the families/dynasties who control the international order and the money supply of the world to reexamine if the intergovernmental organization named the United Nations (along with all the aid agencies focused on human development who are also making their living from the idea of good) are solidifying their power and the power of rich families/dynasties around the world, or if all of those servants are preparing the heirs of those powerful families/dynasties to face the same disintegration that all their predecessors faced when their fathers allowed short-sighted people to become their servants.