Promises made, promises broken
For one brief moment, after the horrors of two World Wars, there was a sense of unification through the creation of the United Nations, the International Court of Justice, the International Criminal Court, and various other global initiatives.
None of them was perfect. But they acknowledged that with the nuclear bomb, we had shifted from the age of nation-states to the age of one Spacehip Earth.
What happens over here affects over there.
Like any law, any boundary, any agreement, it requires all parties to participate.
A promise made between two parties depends on both parties upholding it. For too long, we have assumed that the responsibility rests only with the one who made the promise, relinquishing the responsibility of the one to whom the promise was made.
Yet the one promised is equally responsible for upholding the promise.
Children know this when a parent sets a boundary or rule and then doesn’t uphold it. They learn to play the game of rule-breaking young; they learn that promises are wobbly at best, easy to exploit, and often come with minimal consequences.
We are witnessing a world order that is disintegrating because the promisee refuses to take equal responsibility. We have stepped over violation after violation after violation.
Law is meaningless for the powerful. It has been for a very long time, if ever. But violations used to be hidden. Now they happen in plain sight.
The Empire doesn’t care. We are at that stage.
The point is, it happened on our watch. One Little Atrocity at a time. Over the long arc of time. (https://syntropic.world/little-atrocities-the-path-from-integrity-to-self-deception-and-bad-business/)
History has shown, time and again, how this ends.
Photo Taken January 6th 2021, Article published January 6th 2026
