Front row seat

We wonder how men make terrible decisions that do untold damage to millions of people.

Yet here we are. A front row seat. 

Endless television series and documentaries were made about the Second World War. How we arrived there. The choices that were made. The Little Atrocities that were stepped over. (https://syntropic.world/little-atrocities-the-path-from-integrity-to-self-deception-and-bad-business/)

But history is only relevant if we learn from it. 

As the NASA scientists come home from their trip around the moon, the world waits. What home do they come to?

The glamour has been shattered. 

Our front row seat has a clear view of the world we agreed to, one Little Atrocity at a time.

On a positive note, now that the illusion has been shattered and the rose-coloured glasses removed, we might build a better world. Not tomorrow, but now. 

We begin by examining, with brutal clarity and courage, how the choices we each made might have us be complicit in this moment.

Not me, you might say. I am innocent. And I would say, evil happens slowly, slowly, on our watch, by agreement. 

In what we do not say, when we do not speak, when we say yes, or no, or simply do nothing, how we invest, what we buy, read and vote. 

Every choice is either towards the good, the true and the beautiful, towards Syntropy, or towards entropy.

I write this not to fill us with shame, rather to restore our agency in our choice-making – the seat of personal power.

Photo Taken April 8th 2026.  Article published April 8th 2026