Hyperactive Twilight: The Perverse Unraveling of the World Order

 

Trump and his followers are implementing a state of exception where rules have been replaced by arbitrary power [Vila, 25.10.2017]. This represents a failure of Western history, where the human being disappears like an analysis in the sand [Literature and Theory, 8.10.2025]. Karl Popper warned that the open society is threatened when rational discussion is replaced by propaganda [Popper, 1997]. War propaganda is most effective when it transforms the enemy into a monster [Diesen, 22.2.2026]. This trend is also visible in Finland, where dissidents are labeled as traitors [Rahikainen, 15.10.2025]. The increase in weaponry is a self-fulfilling prophecy that inevitably leads to conflict [Ellul, 1985]. True strength would be found in the ability to resist mass hysteria and make ethical choices [Patomäki, 2025]. According to Kant, no human being should consider themselves more valuable than another, yet contemporary politics tramples upon this principle [Dieterlen, 2010].

Pacifism is the ultimate guarantee of civilization and its highest achievement [Tamares, 2023]. We must pray for peace and act accordingly every day [Emmanuel, 2.3.2026]. For only through compassion can we transcend this darkness and find the way back home [Dostojevski, 1864].

1. Trump, Iran, and the World Order in the Era of the Brainwashing Industry

The streetscapes of the world's metropolises often tell stories that differ from the preconceptions created by the media. Tehran and Los Angeles offer two startling examples of this diversity of reality. The modern and vibrant capital of Iran [Visitera, “Living in IRAN?”, 1.7.2024] can be compared to the homelessness crisis in the largest state of the United States [Our 50 states, “LA in Crisis”, 17.3.2025]. These two cities stood in contrast like a prophetic warning before the bombings began: while in the streets of Tehran, history and modernity met in vibrant cleanliness—in the purity of the metro trains and the splendor of flower shops, with the long hair of joyful women shining in the open air—Los Angeles was at a breaking point under a homelessness crisis and dystopian tent cities, where luxury cars glided past desperate people. Tehran, which shattered Western myths of backwardness by appearing as a community full of the joy of life, became the target of a civilization that could not even care for its own marginalized citizens. It was blind destruction targeted at the very everyday life that the civilized population was trying to protect.

Professor Manoilo has emphasized that the relationship between Iran and the United States is a complex game where the "official reason," such as the Iranian nuclear issue, serves only as a veil for deeper geopolitical ambitions (Sokolov 2012; Manoilo 2012). This conflict progressed in stages, from aggressive statements to new sanctions and Israel's actions as a provocateur (Sokolov 2012; Manoilo 2012). However, it is extreme intellectual laziness to believe that this is about "promoting democracy" or "humanitarian concern"; as Caitlin Johnstone points out, only an idiot believes war propaganda about Iran in a situation where the same actors have just turned Gaza into a pile of rubble filled with rotting corpses [Johnstone, 30.1.2026]. It is about pure power and control—an attempt to balkanize the Middle East into manageable fragments or to install a puppet government in Tehran, without the slightest regard for the fate of civilians [Johnstone, 30.1.2026]. Agamben argues that we have lost the right to truth because fear has become the primary engine of politics: "Fear is what makes people accept a situation where they no longer recognize their neighbor as a brother but as a threat" [Agamben, 2020]. "Man is disappearing today, like a face drawn in the sand at the edge of the sea" [Agamben, 2022].

According to Jennifer Mercieca, modern propaganda no longer seeks to manufacture the "consent" of the people, but rather "dissent" by creating chaos and distrust, turning us all into propagandists through social media [Mercieca, 2021]. Steven Hassan and James Scaminaci III describe it as "fourth-generation warfare," which aims to weaken the opponent's will to fight and their resilience by "magnifying threat, uncertainty, and distrust" [Hassan & Scaminaci III, 2025]. John Mauriello emphasizes how the most effective propaganda is often subtle and unconscious, embedding symbols of power into the national subconscious unnoticed, even through the design of daily objects [Mauriello, 2024]. In the United States, the history of state-practiced propaganda dates back to the First World War, when the committee led by George Creel succeeded in turning a pacifist population into a hysterical, pro-war mob in just six months [Chomsky, 1991; Tsvetkov, 2017; Axelrod, 2009]. This demonstrates how a conscious "culture of deceit" has been built for a long time, exploiting a lack of media literacy and appeals to emotion [Axelrod, 2009].

Dmitry Vinnik points out that the "brainwashing industry" has evolved so that psychological warfare can even include the use of physical force, such as airstrikes, to reinforce the credibility of messages [Винник, 2025]. Slavoj Žižek might have interpreted political polarization as "media psychosis"—an excessive and paranoid media frenzy that functions as the collective return of the repressed unconscious [Žižek, 1991, p. 197]. The collective "repressed" of society—unconscious fears, contradictions, and tensions that people do not want to face consciously—returns through media narratives and threat imagery. They provide a perverse pleasure (jouissance) around collective anxiety [Žižek, 1991, pp. 197–198]. Perverse pleasure also involves the ability to dehumanize the enemy, as John Moore and Connor McDowell demonstrate with examples from U.S. military songs and films where opponents are depicted as cruel or ridiculous [Moore, J., 2025; McDowell, 2025]. Mo Gawdat predicts an "intelligence explosion" occurring as early as 2026, which is like "raising Superman" without being certain of his morality [Gawdat, 15.11.2025].

2. The State of Civilization: The Burning House and the Dissolution of the Big Other

In the spring of 2026, the ideological and spiritual state of the world resembles a collective psychosis, where the grand arcs of history, moral imperatives, and raw great-power politics collide in a way that threatens the planet's survival. The current state of civilization can be defined as a process characterized by the disappearance of compassion and a raw, narcissistic descent into violence. Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has described our civilization as a "burning house" where the salvation of the soul has been sacrificed to a medical religion and biosecurity has turned us all into asymptomatic patients [Agamben, 2022; 2020]. This analysis is complemented by author Brian Dillon, who links the situation to the society of the spectacle described by Guy Debord, where the quest to find authentic humanity becomes mere wishful thinking as it is trampled by the spectacle [Dillon, 6.6.2022].

 The prevailing political culture often manifests as a peculiar blend of the sacred and the banal, encapsulated in the ritualism that has coalesced around Donald Trump. In March 2026, the White House Oval Office witnessed a moment described by Diario AS as a historic prayer session for the president [Diario AS, ”Pastors & Trump”, 5.3.2026]. Key American pastors laid their hands upon Trump’s head, invoking heavenly wisdom to fill his heart and mind at a moment when Trump had just decided to launch lethal missiles at Iran. Yet, none of these spiritual leaders raised the core Christian doctrine concerning the sin of murder, reflecting the seamless alliance between power politics and religious nationalism. Slavoj Žižek characterizes this state as 'heavenly disorder,' referring to the ultimate disintegration of the 'Big Other' that guarantees the consistency of social reality [Crisis in Perception, 7.2.2026]

At the heart of this collapse is the crisis in the Middle East, which Michael Jay "M. J." Rosenberg—a veteran U.S. foreign policy commentator who has served as an editor for AIPAC, director of the Israel Policy Forum, and a Democratic Senate aide—describes as a societal descent into madness [ScheerPost, “Into Madness”, 9.3.2026]. Rosenberg examines the state of Israel through the observations of award-winning journalist Gideon Levy and states that the country has embraced war, revenge, and ultranationalism as its collective identity [ScheerPost, “Into Madness”, 9.3.2026]. Rosenberg argues that the crisis is not just the fault of extremist leaders, but that the entire society has abandoned internal opposition to shout in chorus for endless conflict; in Israel, 93 percent of the Jewish population supports war against Iran, making madness mainstream [Rosenberg, “Insane”, 8.3.2026]. Gideon Levy, writing in Haaretz, describes this state as a "radioactive cloud of stupidity," where public discourse has collapsed into hollow clichés and where the media has traded journalism for cheering [Rosenberg, “Insane”, 8.3.2026].

Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic Slavoj Žižek, known for combining Lacanian psychoanalysis and Marxism, describes the situation as "heavenly disorder" [Crisis in Perception, 7.2.2026]. According to Žižek, the Big Other—the guarantor of the consistency of social reality—has finally dissolved, and we live in a time where truth is always already secretly partial and tied to concrete social structures [Žižek, 15.2.2026]. For him, ideology is not just beliefs, but invisible glasses that shape our fundamental perception of reality [Mind Lantern, 18.2.2026]. Žižek emphasizes that we have lost public space and replaced it with shared privacy, leading to the death of authentic relationships and a state of hyperactivity where we talk incessantly to prevent real change [Žižek, ”Capital”, 22.8.2024].

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Saeed Khatibzadeh describes the conflict as a "reality TV show," where diplomacy served only as a tactical smokescreen for an attack [Khatibzade, 8.3.2026]. Jeffrey Sachs calls the attack imperialist aggression aimed at cutting off China's energy supply [Lezzet, 4.3.2026]. Sachs calls the United States a "rogue nation" that does not respect international rules [ET Now, “Sachs On Trump”, 4.4.2026]. Jonathan Cook, meanwhile, sees Washington as having become completely "Israelized," adopting the Dahiya doctrine where the civilian population is considered a legitimate target of attack [Cook, 5.3.2026].

3. Narcissism as the Engine of Power and the Decay of Language

The prevailing political culture is encapsulated in the ritualism built around Donald Trump, where narcissism and neurological decay are intertwined [Ramesh, 30.12.2025]. Mary Trump describes the structure of her uncle's mind through the toxic atmosphere created by Fred Trump, where only a "killer" mentality was allowed and empathy was destroyed at an emotional level [Trump, 2020]. Trump is an "episodic man" who rules like a king without a sense of history [Good Question, 25.2.2026]. The current geopolitical and ideological state brings to mind Žižek's analysis of the film The Dark Knight Rises, which he considers a conservative-liberal film [Žižek, “Dark Knight”, 26.2.2026/2012]. The film tries to lie but cannot do so completely, simultaneously revealing the structural fragility of power [Žižek, “Dark Knight”, 26.2.2026/2012]. Žižek also points out how Hollywood and popular culture teach us how to desire and what pleasures we should pursue [Žižek, “Dark Knight”, 26.2.2026/2012].

In a broadcast by the TV and radio company of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation on January 7, 2026, Igor Pschenichnikov picks up on Donald Trump's grandiose phrases: "And the whole world is at my disposal." The analysis asks why Donald Trump dresses in royal attire, names movable and immovable objects after himself, and quietly prepares the world for war? [Пшеничников, 7.1.2026]. Trump loves everything giant; he has megalomania, but Trump's need to emphasize greatness stems from a "painful inferiority complex from which Trump is stuck and seems unable to escape" [Пшеничников, 7.1.2026]. The golden ornaments on the wall of the Oval Office, the demolition of the East Wing of the White House to replace it with a massive banquet hall, the carving of his name and portrait into administrative buildings, and the declaration of his birthday as a free admission day for national parks—all this speaks of Trump's personal exercise and accumulation of power, which Congress and the Supreme Court have done little to resist [Пшеничников, 7.1.2026]. Many American biographers of Trump point out that his lust for power is a manifestation of one of his primary traits: narcissism. It can be assumed that it is precisely this psychological quality that allows him to intimidate the world with outrageous tariffs and threaten to annex other countries and territories to the United States. Trump gets a thrill from seeing people tremble before him. Trump, as the president of the richest and most influential country, derives physical pleasure from mocking the world and his own country. Not a monarch, "but I am king," Trump admits. Trump always wants to see himself as a winner; it is his purpose. He simply wants to be first in everything. This led him to the presidency. Therefore, it is difficult to disagree with the conclusion of The Atlantic, which wrote: "Donald Trump is always playing Donald Trump, fighting to win, but without knowing why."

U.S. Army veteran and author Nadia Asencio analyzes the narcissistic engine as a strategic diagnosis, where Trump's pathology has infected global power structures [Asencio, 3.3.2026]. Trump's narcissism combines paranoia and sadism into a "toxic feedback loop," where empathy has been reevaluated as a weakness and cruelty as a strength [Asencio, 3.3.2026]. According to Asencio, we have moved from an era of alliances to an era of mirror events, where sovereign nations are regarded merely as real estate and their people as disposable material [Asencio, 3.3.2026]. When the narcissist's false grandiose self-image crumbles before undeniable reality, he triggers a "narcissistic collapse" and destroys everything around him to avoid his own feelings of worthlessness [Asencio, 3.3.2026]. The final convulsion of civilization is a sign of an era when shame has disappeared and been replaced by pure power [Asencio, 3.3.2026]. Trump is a "cornered rat" whose endgame is not America's interest but the covering of shame, and if he is unable to maintain his power, "he'll be lighting a match on his way out" [Asencio, 3.3.2026]. This is a fundamental war against human dignity, where the entire "economy of the human spirit" must be rebuilt from the ruins [Asencio, 3.3.2026].

Trump's exercise of power is analyzed by Lawrence O’Donnell—a U.S. TV anchor, Emmy-winning writer, and former director of the Senate Finance Committee—who states that Trump distorts language by calling the Iranian war an "excursion" and demanding "unconditional surrender," something not sought since the use of the atomic bomb [O'Donnell, 10.3.2026]. O'Donnell highlights the moral decay by comparing the Trump family to Franklin D. Roosevelt: while Trump tells others to "show grit" in the war zone, his own sons Eric and Donald Jr. are raking in profits from Pentagon drone procurements through the company Power Us [O'Donnell, 10.3.2026].

Trump's linguistic strategies, such as the "naughty schoolboy" style and improvising past the teleprompter, are analyzed by linguist Geoff Lindsey [Lindsey, ”Truth behind Trump's words”, 28.6.2025]. Žižek, on the other hand, sees Trump and Elon Musk as a new kind of ruler whose power is based on obscenity and shamelessness [Read & Žižek, 9.4.2025].

British politician George Galloway, leader of the Workers Party of Britain and long-time opponent of imperialism, describes Trump's Mar-a-Lago press conference as maniacal [Galloway, ”On Donald Trump”, 10.3.2026]. According to Galloway, Trump is lying when he claims Iran hit its own girls' school with a Tomahawk missile and is delusional in believing he controls the Strait of Hormuz [Galloway, ”On Donald Trump”, 10.3.2026].

Professor Jeffrey Sachs reminded India Today in a stark interview that "the U.S. government lies for a living" and that the attack was a premeditated act that lit the fuse for World War III [India Today, 3.3.2026]. Ben Norton reports that eleven countries have already been targeted by Trump's bombings, while the president even threatens to invade Spain after Madrid refused to participate in the aggression [Norton, 4.3.2026; Corbett, 4.3.2026]. This is what Christopher Chivvis describes as "performative power," where grand strategy has been traded for the immediate gratification of the news cycle and a "distraction war" to cover domestic scandals and the Epstein files [Chivvis, 28.2.2026].

In an interview on the RSBN channel, Trump reveals that he had a "very good call" with Vladimir Putin, where they discussed Ukraine and the Middle East, and downplays the school strike by stating that Tomahawk missiles are "generic products" that anyone can use [RSBN, ”Trump Reveals”, 10.3.2026]. Trump also describes the situation in Cuba as a "friendly takeover" being handled by Marco Rubio and claims that the Iranian army has already been "wiped out," even though the war is just beginning [RSBN, ”Trump Reveals”, 10.3.2026].

The most dangerous aspect is that Trump's psychopathic narcissism proves to be outright satanic in the light of the Epstein files. Dugin describes in stern words the true collapse of the West, the "civilization of Satan," following the release of the Epstein files [Дугин, 31.1.2026]. "This is the true collapse of the West," Dugin stated. Jeffrey Epstein's classified documents contain references to the current U.S. president Donald Trump, as well as several prominent American and international politicians, celebrities, and businessmen. According to materials released by the U.S. State Department, there is unconfirmed evidence linking Trump to allegations of sexual abuse of girls as young as 13. The documents also mention cases involving rape, perversions, drug orgies, sacrifices, and even cannibalism, involving world-famous names. Dugin points out that according to the U.S. media, the current head of state's name appears in the documents more than 3,000 times: "Among other things, it is claimed that Trump may have been involved in acts of violence against minor girls, and mentions are also made of his participation in intimate events at his Mar-a-Lago estate and the Rancho Palos Verdes golf course. Furthermore, it has become known that Tesla founder Elon Musk previously expressed a desire to visit the island associated with Epstein's activities" [Дугин, 31.1.2026]. Corruption is not limited to sex but extends to state plunder; Epstein's circles even planned the theft of Libya's frozen billions with the help of Mossad and MI6 immediately after Gaddafi's murder, demonstrating the bottomless greed of the elite and their complete disregard for international law [Arria, 4.2.2026]. Modern Judaism is divided into traditional believers and Zionists, the latter of whom, according to Dugin, represent a Sabbatean-Frankist heresy that does not wait for the Messiah but seeks to create eschatological conditions artificially through evil [Дугин, 5.2.2026]. Dugin lists parties involved in the Epstein case: Trump, Musk, Bill Gates, Bush Senior, Prince Andrew, murders, pedophilia, cannibalism, Mossad, black masses, human experimentation, and forced drug addiction: "Even the wildest myths of conspiracy theorists have been confirmed. The scandal is so extensive that even a war with Iran cannot distract from it" [Дугин, 31.1.2026]. "The West is indeed, literally, a satanic civilization. Now even Microsoft feels uncomfortable knowing what Bill Gates did on Epstein's island" [Дугин, 31.1.2026].

4. The Iranian War and Postmodern Quantum Geopolitics

The direct attack on Iran by the United States and Israel on February 28, 2026, ripped apart international law. Russian philosopher Alexander Dugin views this as "quantum geopolitics," where reality is like Schrödinger's cat: one can talk about peace and bomb simultaneously [Дугин, ”Postmodernism”, 25.6.2025]. The strikes killed 148 children at a girls' school in Minab [Izvestija, 1.3.2026], and Scott Ritter—a former weapons inspector and Marine Corps officer—reveals that the Tomahawk missile fuel was weaponized into a thermobaric weapon, burning the children alive in the prayer hall [Jiang, ”Out of Control”, 10.3.2026]. Ritter directly blames Pete Hegseth for this, who rescinded directives aimed at avoiding civilian casualties [Jiang, ”Out of Control”, 10.3.2026].

Democratic U.S. House member Jim McGovern harshly criticizes the Trump administration's turn into a neoconservative warmonger [McGovern, 5.3.2026]. McGovern asks why Trump, who campaigned by opposing "forever wars," is now eagerly pushing for regime change in Iran. According to him, the entire attack is built on lies, and no immediate threat actually existed. McGovern compares the situation to the Iraq War and accuses Republicans of deceiving the nation. The war, he says, is illegal because it lacks both constitutional justification and a UN Security Council resolution. It is shameful that working-class children are sent to die while the offspring of the billionaire class stay safe. McGovern criticizes the wasting of billions of dollars on war in a situation where Americans cannot afford healthcare. He believes Trump's true motivation lies in the funding of the defense industry. "The mask is off," McGovern states, referring to how Trump has betrayed his voters. This political betrayal demonstrates the deep moral bankruptcy of the current administration.

Professor John J. Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago, the world's leading theorist of offensive realism, states that Trump and Netanyahu made a massive miscalculation in believing in a quick victory [CNN, ”Mearsheimer on Trump”, 10.3.2026]. Mearsheimer points to 250 years of history where the United States has always ruthlessly sought regional hegemony [Mearsheimer, ”250 y American Policy”, 6.3.2026].

An analysis by the Capital Breakdown channel shows that the new leader Mojtaba Khamenei responded immediately with ballistic missiles to Tel Aviv, shattering decades of "strategic patience" [Capital Breakdown, 10.3.2026]. Lieutenant Colonel Tony Aguilar, a West Point graduate and Green Beret veteran, states that the United States lost the war at the very beginning by underestimating Iran's asymmetric capability [Galloway & Aguilar, 9.3.2026]. Aguilar predicts the use of tactical nuclear weapons as a desperate last resort, which would draw Russia and China directly into the war [Galloway & Aguilar, 9.3.2026].

Mearsheimer adds that the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle sent by Macron is militarily insignificant and only demonstrates the leadership's lack of understanding [Mearsheimer, ”America Lost”, 10.3.2026]. Mitchell and Rahman report that the signals between the Pentagon and Trump are contradictory, as the military warns of depleting missile stocks [Mitchell & Rahman, 9.3.2026]. Indian news chief Rifat Jawaid, founder of Janta Ka Reporter, confirms that the attacks deliberately targeted hospitals and civilians, as investigated by CNN [Jiang, ”Out of Control”, 10.3.2026]. Geopolitical analyst Xueqin Jiang claims the situation is part of the "Greater Israel" project and an eschatological war aimed at forcing the return of Jesus [Jiang, ”Out of Control”, 10.3.2026]. Jiang presents a wild theory that supranational parasites are steering states toward self-destruction and envisions a future where humans are microchipped into humanoid robots under AI surveillance [Jiang, ”Out of Control”, 10.3.2026].

5. Economy, Technology, and the Colonization of the Lifeworld

The world is no longer what it was before the end of February. It is now mathematics that no one in Washington wanted to calculate out loud. Xueqin Jiang analyzes this brutal "interceptor economy": Iran produces a hundred missiles a month, but the United States and Israel are able to replace only a few interceptor missiles in the same time [Jiang, 5.3.2026]. Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, who was Powell's chief of staff and saw the lies of Iraq, warned now that Trump and Rubio do not understand they are attacking a 3,000-year-old civilization ready for martyrdom [Diesen & Wilkerson, 4.3.2026]. According to Wilkerson, the plan to arm Kurdish fighters is an act without conscience that repeats the mistakes of the past and draws Turkey into an uncontrollable escalation [Diesen & Wilkerson, 4.3.2026]. John Mearsheimer also warned that without a strategy for regime change, the United States will drift into a state of desperation, where it will be forced to climb the escalation ladder toward a catastrophic ground invasion [Davis & Mearsheimer, 5.3.2026].

Sachs analyzes the long-term arc of U.S. foreign policy, which he says did not begin with Trump but dates back decades. He highlights the role of the CIA since the 1953 Iranian coup and states that the United States seeks total control, not just conflict. According to Sachs, the U.S. "deep state" and the CIA have often acted even against the will of their own presidents, such as John F. Kennedy. Kennedy tried to prevent Israel's nuclear weapons program, but the CIA worked behind the scenes to promote it. Sachs sees this as a continuum of a broader imperialist mindset where the U.S. wants to dictate the political direction of other countries and secure markets for its own military industry [APT, ”Sachs Explains”, 3.3.2026]. Sachs directs particularly harsh criticism toward NATO, which he considers to have lost its purpose after the collapse of the Soviet Union. According to him, NATO has turned into a "dagger aimed at Russia," and the organization's eastward expansion is the direct cause of the war in Ukraine. Sachs recalls the promise given by the United States and Germany in 1990, according to which NATO would not move one inch to the east. Breaking this promise was, in Sachs's view, part of a strategic effort to control Ukraine and make Russia a third-class power. Sachs suggests the dissolution of NATO and a move toward a collective security arrangement that would include Russia as part of European stability [APT, ”Sachs Explains”, 3.3.2026].

In his analysis, Sachs also draws attention to how the United States neglects real existential threats, such as the climate crisis. He describes the climate situation as "grim and worse than expected," but notes that the administration responds by reviving coal production and withdrawing from international agreements. "This is a conscious destruction of well-being," Sachs fumes, referring to Trump's climate policy [ET Now, ”Sachs On Trump”, 4.4.2026]. While the United States spends trillions on wars and goes into debt at an accelerating rate, its own infrastructure is crumbling. Sachs points out ironically that in American airports nothing works, while China invests in robotics, AI, and the technology of the future, being peacefully a step ahead of the rest of the world [Breaking Points, ”Trump fantasy”, 2.3.2026].

Sachs warns the rest of the world about the "normalization of madness." According to him, other countries should refuse to follow the United States in this self-destructive cycle and instead strengthen international institutions such as the United Nations and the World Trade Organization. In Sachs's eyes, the United States has lost its moral and rational leadership; its allies have turned into mere "vassals" who do not dare to speak the truth. He is particularly concerned about the silence of European countries and some Arab states in the face of the situation in Gaza and the war against Iran. "Security in our world is found in speaking the truth, not in covertly following evil," Sachs emphasizes [Breaking Points, ”Trump fantasy”, 2.3.2026]. Sachs's speeches form a totality where economic ignorance, political corruption, and imperialist blindness are intertwined. He sees the U.S. empire as being in its final stages, destroying itself with bloody wars and unsustainable debt. The Trump administration is merely a symptom and a catalyst in this process, having torn open the last remnants of diplomacy. Sachs calls for rationality and a return to rules-based multilateralism, but his voice carries a deep despair over whether the U.S. political machinery can still change direction. Sachs's message is clear: if the world normalizes madness, there is no return to something better. "I live in a country of madmen, but the rest of the world must avoid getting trapped there," he summarizes [ET Now, ”Sachs On Trump”, 4.4.2026].

Sachs reminds us that Iran is a 5,000-year-old civilization, and a country of 90 million people cannot be ruled or its administration changed through bombings alone [Lezzet, ”Sachs”, 4.3.2026]. He harshly criticizes how the U.S. Congress has been sold to Israeli lobbyists, and how war is waged for Israeli hegemony, not American interests [Lezzet, ”Sachs”, 4.3.2026]. Sachs's voice is the voice of an expert who refuses to accept propaganda as truth [Lezzet, ”Sachs”, 4.3.2026].

The process that Jürgen Habermas calls the "colonization of the lifeworld" is accelerated by AI and massive concentration of wealth [Manninen, 2020]. Senator Bernie Sanders warns that democracy cannot survive under the power of oligarchs like Musk and Bezos [Cohen & Sanders, 7.3.2026]. Žižek analyzes the precariat and the Uber-economy as a new form of slavery and ponders the dangers of the brain-machine link to free will [Bastani & Žižek, 13.4.2025; Barnett & Žižek, 18.10.2025]. He claims contemporary capitalism is "neofeudalism," where actors like Bill Gates collect rent while controlling shared space [Žižek, ”Capital”, 22.8.2024]. In an interview with Charlie Barnett on October 18, 2025, Slavoj Žižek emphasizes that the task of philosophy is not to provide ready-made answers, but to analyze how the formulation of problems themselves is often part of the problem [Barnett & Žižek, 18.10.2025]. In that context, Žižek analyzes how traditional class division has changed in contemporary capitalism, and the apparent freedom created by the platform economy hides an even rawer insecurity and exploitation. The development of AI and a potential post-humanist era cause him concern, as they could lead to the outsourcing of human thought and even direct external control. The philosopher criticizes the American ideal of the pursuit of happiness and states psychoanalytically that man is a being who often consciously sabotages his own success.

Trump's obsession with buying the world's largest island, Greenland, "either the easy way or the hard way," was also not just the whim of a senile narcissist—although it was that too—but a carefully prepared project backed by Silicon Valley's techno-billionaires [Devyatkin, 13.1.2026; Conkar, 20.1.2026]. Thiel, Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and Jeff Bezos had for years quietly invested hundreds of millions of dollars in companies like KoBold Metals, which search for critical rare earth metals for AI infrastructure under Greenland's melting ice [Conkar, 20.1.2026; ORF, 20.1.2026]. This is a new colonialism: as climate change melts the glaciers, it reveals 12% of the world's rare earth metals, without which the current technological leap is impossible [Conkar, 20.1.2026]. Trump's ally Ronald Lauder, heir to Estée Lauder, had already managed to establish a company called "Greenland Water Bank" in a moldy building in Nuuk, with a direct line of sight to the Greenlandic parliament [Scally, 19.1.2026]. Behind this "water bank" were local political influencers whose wives served as foreign ministers, creating a direct line to American money [Scally, 19.1.2026; ORF, 20.1.2026]. Capitalism now operates on the principle of "plus-de-gozar" or surplus enjoyment, which according to Žižek, turns brutality into the highest ethical duty [Alemán, 5.3.2026; Žižek, ”Surplus Happiness”, 31.8.2023].

Economic sanctions and the Iranian war reveal the vulnerability of the West, as RT reports on Kirill Dmitrijev's statements: the Russia sanctions were "strategic blunders" [RT, ”EU blunder”, 9.3.2026]. Oil prices over 100 dollars and threats to close the Strait of Hormuz are driving the world into an energy crisis, which Trump dismisses as a "small price" [Rego, 9.3.2026; RT, ”EU blunder”, 9.3.2026]. Akash Banerjee, Indian satirist and host of The Deshbhakt channel, links the war to the Jeffrey Epstein files, claiming Trump is being blackmailed by Israel to protect himself from revelations about the abuse of minors [Banerjee, ”Iran, Epstein, Trump”, 9.3.2026]. Banerjee suggests that Mossad is remote-controlling Trump, and the war is intended to make the content of the Epstein files fade from public discussion [Banerjee, ”Iran, Epstein, Trump”, 9.3.2026].

Jeffrey Sachs continues the economic analysis, stating that Trump's tariff policy is "Mickey Mouse-level" ignorance [ET Now, ”Sachs On Trump”, 4.4.2026]. Sachs, who led the Earth Institute at Columbia University, explains how the trade deficit is due to America's own overconsumption, not the cheating of other countries [ET Now, ”Sachs On Trump”, 4.4.2026]. He considers Trump's tariff wars and emergency decrees as evidence of the collapse of the American political system [ET Now, ”Sachs On Trump”, 4.4.2026]. According to Sachs, the world is drifting into a "land of madmen" where rational discussion has been replaced by populism and protectionist tariffs [ET Now, ”Sachs On Trump”, 4.4.2026]. This economic instability is a direct consequence of the same attitude with which the war was initiated: the belief that force and unilateral decisions replace rules.

6. Finland and Europe in a Geopolitical Farce

The state of Europe is critical, and Professor Rein Müllerson states that the continent has been dragged into the Ukraine war against its own interests [Diesen & Müllerson, 8.3.2026]. Putin points out Europe's erroneous energy policy [Times Now World, ”Stop Gas”, 5.3.2026], and Konstantin Malofeyev emphasizes that the United States has only one genuine ally, Israel [Малофеев, 5.3.2026].

Rana Dasgupta, a respected British novelist and essayist, analyzes in his work After Nations the possible end of nation-states [Bastani & Dasgupta, ”Completely Change”, 8.3.2026]. Dasgupta explains that the nation-state is an imperialist construction currently eroding under the pressure of global capital; he sees the United States returning to an oligarchy similar to 18th-century Britain, where the population is insignificant to the state [Bastani & Dasgupta, ”Completely Change”, 8.3.2026].

In Finland, the madness culminated in the Finns Party studio, where MP Vilhelm Junnila and Mikael Lith laughed, coffee cups in hand, at warnings about the consequences of Trump's bombings [Perussuomalaiset, 4.3.2026; Junnila & Lith, 4.3.2026]. Mikael Lith labeled experts, such as Professor Martti Koskenniemi, as "so-called experts" [A-studio, ”Koskenniemi & Aunesluoma”, 3.3.2026]. The devaluation of humanity is visible even in the speech of experts; doctor Kimmo Hujala downplays the sinking of an Iranian warship, stating it is a "pretty small thing" [Hujala, ”Aika pieni juttu”, 5.3.2026]. Hujala was reacting to the reflections of Petteri J. Järvinen, an IT expert, on how the captain of a nuclear submarine might have felt about sinking an unarmed ship [Järvinen, ”Miltä mahtoi tuntua?”, 5.3.2026]. At the same time, Atte Kaleva demands that authorities "comb through" Iran's influence networks in Finland, even naming mosques as potential sources of sabotage [Kaleva, 5.3.2026]. Such talk speaks of the erosion of decency and human solidarity in the shadow of hard security policy [Good Question, 25.2.2026]. The speech is part of a broader spiral of dehumanization, where the "Big Other" no longer exists and responsibility for the catastrophe dissolves into technical measures [Crisis in Perception, 7.2.2026]. Riekki, director of the East Savonia Safety House, gets excited by this and urges citizens to report anything "unusual" through the 112 emergency number [Riekki, 5.3.2026].

Academician of international law, Professor Emeritus Martti Koskenniemi—a man who has influenced the theory of international law worldwide and served, among other things, on the UN International Law Commission—has presented a stern assessment: Trump must be treated like a "stark-mad prince." Koskenniemi compares Trump to Louis XIV from history, the Sun King, who made no distinction between himself and the state [Koskenniemi, 20.1.2026]. According to Koskenniemi, Trump's actions are pure "performance politics," which erodes the structures of the U.S. federal government and the separation of powers [Pohjolainen, 21.1.2026]. The line of arrogance, which considers critical analysis merely "old ideological green-leftism," continued in the outings of Saara Huhtasaari, where she labeled Finnish media journalism as "agenda media" and "Trump-hate" [Huhtasaari, 5.3.2026]. At the same time, Pekka Aittakumpu, as a man of the cloth, harnessed his theological rhetoric to justify the attack, calling the strike a justified crushing of "Islamic tyranny" and reproaching the left for "grumbling" [Aittakumpu, 4.3.2026]. While Huhtasaari and Aittakumpu defined "competence" through political loyalty, world-class authorities like John Mearsheimer and Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Davis examine the situation with the depth of realpolitik and military science, far from the laughter of studios and Facebook [Davis & Mearsheimer, 5.3.2026].

The laughter of the Finns Party in the midst of a terrible tragedy feels like a psychological defense that could be called arrogance intoxicated by power. The labeling of international law experts as "reflexive anti-Americanism" by Mikael Lith is a textbook example of the politicization of expertise, where legal argumentation is sought to be invalidated by reducing it to a mere psychological attitude or historical baggage [Perussuomalaiset, Junnila & Lith, 4.3.2026]. By claiming critical analysis is a "decades-old cultural phenomenon," Lith deliberately turns attention away from the concrete legal criteria presented by Martti Koskenniemi and seeks to make international norms a matter of taste [A-studio, ”Koskenniemi & Aunesluoma”, 3.3.2026]. Labeling serves a populist purpose where a complex and contract-based system is presented as an ideological enemy so that room can be made for the admiration of pure power politics. While experts are accused of being prisoners of history, the Finns Party's studio analysis locks itself into uncritical admiration of the winner, where the principle of the rule of law is sacrificed on the altar of political expediency. Such rhetoric dangerously erodes the very rules-based world order that is the ultimate and only sustainable guarantee of security for a small country like Finland. In Ilta-Sanomat, Mira Kokko reports that governing parties are directly accusing the opposition of playing on Russia's team simply because the opposition has criticized changes to nuclear weapons legislation [Kokko, 6.3.2026].

Viewed psychoanalytically, the behavior of the Finns Party may indicate a need to manage the fear of death and anxiety related to war by denying the victim's humanity and emphasizing their own superiority. Following Erich Fromm's ideas, a necrophilic tendency can be seen here, where the complexity of life and human distress are reduced to technical performances and destroyed fleets [Perussuomalaiset, Junnila & Lith, 4.3.2026]. Junnila's serene, almost orgastic satisfaction as he speaks of breaking Iran's command structure tells more about the speaker's mental landscape than the reality of the war itself [Perussuomalaiset, Junnila & Lith, 4.3.2026]. Laughing at the idea that someone could consider Iran capable of resistance is part of this same mechanism by which reality is attempted to be bent to one's own ideology [Perussuomalaiset, Junnila & Lith, 4.3.2026]. It is the intoxication of being on the side of the winner, which blinds one from seeing the thousands of innocents who fall under the bombings.

At the same time in the United States, Senator Adam Schiff—a lawyer graduated from Harvard Law and an experienced prosecutor—warns of the consequences of joining the war [Schiff, ”We Are at War”, 3.3.2026]. Schiff has a solid academic background from Stanford University and is known for his work on the House Intelligence Committee [Schiff, ”We Are at War”, 3.3.2026]. Schiff states unequivocally that President Trump has taken the country to war without constitutional right and without the permission of Congress [Schiff, ”We Are at War”, 3.3.2026]. He reminds that the Iranian nuclear threat is an unjustified and intelligence-free claim that brings to mind the false justifications for the Iraq War [Schiff, ”We Are at War”, 3.3.2026]. It is ironic that while Finnish politicians take the strike as a given, American constitutional experts speak of illegality and a catastrophic mistake [Schiff, ”We Are at War”, 3.3.2026].

Professor Jeffrey Sachs, the esteemed economist from Columbia University and multiple UN advisor, is also extremely critical of the attack [Lezzet, ”Sachs”, 4.3.2026]. Sachs's academic career and experience in global negotiations give him a vantage point from which he calls Trump's actions dangerous and incoherent [Lezzet, ”Sachs”, 4.3.2026]. Sachs reminds that Iran is a 5,000-year-old civilization, and a country of 90 million people cannot be ruled or its administration changed through bombings alone [Lezzet, ”Sachs”, 4.3.2026]. He harshly criticizes how the U.S. Congress has been sold to Israeli lobbyists and how war is waged for Israeli hegemony, not American interests [Lezzet, ”Sachs”, 4.3.2026]. Sachs's voice is the voice of an expert who refuses to accept propaganda as truth [Lezzet, ”Sachs”, 4.3.2026].

In A-studio, Professor Emeritus Martti Koskenniemi and Professor of Political History Juhana Aunesluoma reflect on the state of the rules-based world order [A-studio, ”Koskenniemi & Aunesluoma”, 3.3.2026]. Juhana Aunesluoma, who earned his doctorate from Oxford, emphasizes that democracy is not brought by means of air forces [A-studio, ”Koskenniemi & Aunesluoma”, 3.3.2026]. Koskenniemi, for his part, states directly that the attack is contrary to international law, even if someone might try to see it as a morally justified overthrow of a tyrant [A-studio, ”Koskenniemi & Aunesluoma”, 3.3.2026]. He however questions Trump's role as a liberator and calls him a "stark-mad prince" [A-studio, ”Koskenniemi & Aunesluoma”, 3.3.2026]. According to Koskenniemi, it is hard to find historical evidence that an external attacker has ever succeeded in bringing human rights on the tips of bayonets [A-studio, ”Koskenniemi & Aunesluoma”, 3.3.2026].

Paavo Väyrynen, an experienced political scientist, accuses the state leadership of taking Finland into NATO by "slithering" and that allowing nuclear weapons rather exposes us to first strikes [Väyrynen, 6.3.2026]. Finland's joining of NATO was a steamrolling by the top political leadership when citizens were not asked anything. Väyrynen (2025b) reminded that in reality, applying for NATO membership and handing over lethal weaponry to Ukraine occurred before Russia's broader attack; Finland created a threat that did not exist before.

Professor Heikki Patomäki criticized how Finland was taken into NATO with assurances that nuclear weapons would not be brought onto our soil, but now that promise is breaking [Patomäki, 6.3.2026]. Patomäki recalls that when Finland was taken into NATO, citizens were assured that nuclear weapons would not be brought onto our soil, but now that promise is breaking [Patomäki, 6.3.2026]. NATO's decision to raise defense spending to five percent of gross domestic product—amounting to approximately eight billion euros in additional annual spending for Finland (Patomäki, 2025). Patomäki (2025) compared this sum to the entire budget of the Ministry of Education and Culture, highlighting the traditional "guns or butter" dilemma. If public spending is not to be increased, growth in defense spending means cuts from other sectors of society [Patomäki, 2025]. This economic pressure further impoverishes public services and investment in a country already struggling with economic growth and debt [Patomäki, 2025]. The technocratic approach to armaments, where decisions are made behind closed doors without broad parliamentary oversight or public debate, erodes democracy [Patomäki, 2025]. This "securitization" bypasses normal democratic consideration and creates politics that cannot be questioned without being labeled irresponsible [Patomäki, 2025]. Finland is now for the first time a fully integral part of the Euro-Atlantic defense system, whose logic of operation is based on deterrence and countermeasures, whereby decisions are increasingly made on others' terms [Patomäki, 2025]. This is an ironic "Finlandization" in reverse: instead of one's own judgment, one acts in the way dictated by allies. This large-scale militarization, which China (China Military Online, 2025, as mentioned by Patomäki, 2025) has seen as part of a broader strategic competition, not only increases global confrontation but also forces Europe to cut social and public investment [Patomäki, 2025]. Thus it weakens the ability to participate in global climate action and poverty reduction [Patomäki, 2025]. Investing in instruments of warfare weakens security and generates regressive income distribution effects, worsening social inequality and political fragmentation [Patomäki, 2025].

Destroying the welfare state for the needs of a war economy means what the Italian philosopher Agamben described: "People who have been reduced to their pure biological existence are no longer human; managing bare life is the madness of our time" [Agamben, 2022]. These "zombies" were modern equivalents to the Muselmänner of concentration camps, the living dead, from whom "hunger, terror, and humiliation had removed all consciousness and personality, making them completely apathetic" [Agamben, Homo Sacer, 2017]. In them, law has turned entirely into life and life entirely into law at a point where they are no longer distinguishable. Finland's economy is on the verge of collapse due to NATO commitments [Tagesspiegel. 3.11.2025, Фонтанка. 31.10.2025, NEWS.ru. 31.10.2025, Известия. 3.11.2025, ТАСС. 3.11.2025]. Der Tagesspiegel [3.11.2025] states in its article that Finland pumps billions of euros into defense while the economy has been declining for years and unemployment is growing rapidly. "We need more money," the publication quotes Defense Minister Antti Häkkänen and reports that Finance Minister Riikka Purra intends to save a billion euros by considering freezing the funding of higher education programs as part of budget negotiations. This decision could take over 160 million euros from universities. The current shift to a war economy and NATO's "quantum leap" in defense spending is economic suicide [Ellyatt, 2025; Hiilamo, 15.2.2026].

Alexey Gordeev [Гордеев, А. & МК. 3.11.2025] writes that Finland thus pays the price: NATO membership worsened the country's economic crisis. Finland's NATO membership, which was supposed to strengthen the country's security, has led to serious economic problems. Vyacheslav Agapov writes on the news site Lenta.ru [Агапов, В. & Lenta.ru. 3.11.2025] that NATO commitments have been a threat to Finland's economy: Finland was once a model country of stability and prosperity in Northern Europe, but now Finland is drifting from prolonged stagnation into a full-blown economic recession. The RIA Novosti news agency (November 3, 2025) states dramatically about Finland: "Hardly on its feet." RIA Novosti [3.11.2025] also recalls that Russia's ambassador to Finland Pavel Kuznetsov previously told RIA Novosti that Helsinki is the fifth largest in the amount of military aid given to the Kyiv regime per capita.

The "guns or butter" dilemma is, according to William Gay, specifically deepened by the military-industrial complex (MIC): the military industry benefits from warfare and distorts the concept of national security. Thus, huge resources are directed toward weapons at the expense of other societal needs [Fiala, 2018; Gay, 2018, pp. 255-267]. Robert L. Holmes emphasizes that there should not be separate moral standards for states and individuals. The justification of warfare is always groundless: one should not ignore the well-being of the individual and lead humans into social slavery [Fiala, 2018; Holmes, 2018, pp. 105, 108-109]. Rabbi Aaron Samuel Tamares condemned such politics that sacrifice human dignity and life on the altar of the abstract "honor of the fatherland." Military sacrifice is "idolatry." The end result is both economic collapse and moral emptiness [Tamares, 2023, pp. 126, 128, 140, 143]. Jenny Pieper notes in the same way: if the people have been "brainwashed" to open their wallets for the military-industrial complex without protest, they have surrendered their right to prioritize their own needs [Pieper. 3.11.2025].

What seems very fateful is that in Finland, simultaneously and secretly, changes to the nuclear weapons law are being prepared for the needs of its good transatlantic ally, the United States of America—what Eero Heinäluoma calls a "dangerous thinning of consensus" [Pohjala, ”Heinäluoma”, 5.3.2026; Hara, 7.3.2026]. MEP Eero Heinäluoma (sd.) is an experienced politician and member of the European Parliament who has served in several top positions in Finnish national politics. Heinäluoma says that new concepts nested in public usage, such as a nuclear umbrella or the transit of nuclear weapons, obscure what is actually at stake. "Transit means that nuclear weapons will strike Russia through Finland," Heinäluoma writes [Pohjala, ”Heinäluoma”, 5.3.2026]. "Even when the NATO membership decision was made, the consensus among parties included maintaining restrictions concerning nuclear weapons," Heinäluoma points out. He says that "for a small country, foreign policy consensus has been a valuable thing, but during President Stubb's time, this unanimity seems to be thinning. Of all weapons, nuclear weapons are the most destructive—they are genuine doomsday weapons." [Pohjala, ”Heinäluoma”, 5.3.2026]. The new chairperson of the Left Alliance, Minja Koskela, wonders what "nuclear weapons madness" has struck the government and emphasizes that peace is promoted by reducing, not increasing, nuclear weapons [Koskela, 6.3.2026]. MP Johannes Yrttiaho warns that dismantling the nuclear weapons ban makes Finland a target in a conflict between great powers [Yrttiaho, 6.3.2026].

Li Andersson reminds that not even NATO requires such a change [Andersson, ”Ydinaseet”, 5.3.2026]. Jari Himanen characterizes this as a farce where incompetent reality TV characters create chaos on the operating table of civilization [Himanen, ”Trump nolasi”, 8.3.2026]: "Trump's war is also saturated with lies, but he lacked the understanding and competence to build the war into a necessary action. - - - Bouncing from one reason to another and back reveals that the Trump administration itself doesn't really have a clue what they are doing. - - - When competence and vision are lacking, according to General Shirreff, hubris best describes the war of Trump and Hegseth. And everyone knows how hubris ends" (Former Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe of NATO, British General Sir Richard Shirreff). Himanen continues: "Behind the war, there also seems to be the desire of messianic fanatics and Christian nationalists like Hegseth to carry out 'God's will.' This was one of the justifications for the war in The Atlantic's listing. It is total folly to worsen the situation and talk about 'Jesus-anointed Trump' and the Iranian war as a 'holy war' or some kind of holy crusade. - - Just as a plumber should not be allowed to play brain surgeon in the operating room, a TV personality who has cheated throughout his life does not have the competence to handle the world's most influential office. In both cases, the result is inevitable chaos. And Trump clearly knows how to do nothing better with his incompetence than create chaos" [Himanen, ”Trump nolasi”, 8.3.2026].

Even before the openness of March in the government, Antti Häkkänen (NCP) had revealingly given a green light to nuclear weapons in public [Kärki, 2025]. The Tsargrad news channel also reported that Finnish Defense Minister Antti Häkkänen signed an agreement on January 13, 2026, for ten SAR satellites. The agreement improved intelligence and security in the northern region, announced Defense Minister Antti Häkkänen [Царьград, 13.1.2026]. These satellites are capable of producing high-quality images and data with an accuracy of up to 16 cm regardless of the time of day or weather conditions, such as cloud cover, rain, and snow. Neither Tsargrad nor other media have sufficiently highlighted the military revanchist memories related to Defense Minister Häkkänen, regarding how ten years ago Häkkänen served as the chairman of the NCP Youth. At that time, the NCP Youth presented a demand for the return of Petsamo and East Karelia to Finland. Can anything good come of this, when under the leadership of the same Defense Minister, Finland now opens its borders to nuclear weapons?

In his current ministerial post, Häkkänen has updated revanchism into biopolitics, where public health is no longer well-being, but a militaristic resource [Paananen, 16.1.2026]. In the deepening romance between the Ministry of Defense and the Pentagon, Finnish children's recesses have been made into preschool for the front line, because according to the minister, young people must move so that they can later fill their place in the state's defense line [Paananen, 16.1.2026]. When conscripts begin to be trained with domestic anti-personnel mines, the minister looks at the youth like a butcher at his cattle: assessing the toughness and endurance of the meat [Paananen, 16.1.2026]. The reservist age has been hiked to sixty-five years, so that no one can escape the embrace of the state before their biological burnout [Kaija & Loikkanen, 17.1.2026]. Minister Häkkänen's message is blunt: if you are sixty and still alive, you are a potential component of the war machine, as long as you remember "activity" in your daily life [Kaija & Loikkanen, 17.1.2026].

The changing policy toward nuclear weapons in Finland comes at a particular moment, about which Rostislav Ištšenko points out that the West seeks the controlled use of nuclear weapons because it no longer wins with conventional weapons [Ищенко, 6.3.2026]. The war mentality has become a national norm in Europe, which is a disgrace to civilization [Pugliese, 30.11.2025]. Young people have been harnessed as part of this cognitive warfare, where patriotism is linked to violence [Alava, 14.1.2026]. We should resist this indoctrination and demand the right to a peaceful education [Kyllästinen, 17.1.2026]. War is not a necessity, but a conscious political decision from which the people suffer [Tiainen, 27.1.2026]. Human distress must never be a mere byproduct in the games of great powers [Sachs, 2.3.2026]. It is time to break the spiral of silence and speak for peace, even if it is dangerous [Diesen, 22.2.2026].

In Sweden, the leader of the Social Democrats, Magdalena Andersson, says that we can bomb Russia to shit. “Europe still has nuclear weapons today, so we can bomb Russia to pieces,” Magdalena Andersson tells TV4 Nyheterna. [Expressen, "Bomba Ryssland", 10.3.2026]

7. Hope from God in a Mad World? Ontological Collapse, Kenosis, and the Possibility of Hope

Nietzsche's "last man" (Letzter Mensch) is the opposite of the Übermensch: a passive nihilist who seeks only comfort and safety. Nietzsche predicted that this apathy would lead to a decadent society unable to support healthy life or the growth of great individuals. Zarathustra tried to warn of this, but people took the "last man" as a literal goal. Following the statement "God is dead," Nietzsche predicted nihilism would fill the void, with pleasure and materialism replacing faith. The last men say: "We have invented happiness," making the world small and insignificant.

Martin Buber opposed this development, seeing the silence of God as an "eclipse," a deliberate hiding. Martin Heidegger also spoke of the "time of the escaped gods" as a preparation for the "coming God." Buber, however, warned that values cannot be produced conceptually; freedom is found by finding values in an encounter with Being. In Washington, Heidegger is unlikely to be known while they declare victories in wars for a God-anointed Trump. Giorgio Agamben returns Heidegger's claim "only a god can save us" to its context, where the West may perceive divinity only as an adjectival quality [Agamben, 21.3.2025]. According to Hollis Phelps, this is theology as an instrument of profanation, through which the heritage of Christianity is rendered inoperative for new use [Phelps, 27.11.2012]. Žižek, meanwhile, states that God gave freedom by emptying himself out of the picture [Žižek, ”Re-election of Trump”, 28.11.2024].

Ludwig Wittgenstein's contribution would be the analysis of linguistic prerequisites. For the early Wittgenstein, metaphysics was "meaningless" and one had to be silent about the "mystical" (Tractatus 7). Later, he studied religious language as part of language games. Agamben [2020], however, argues that current "biosecurity" has turned words like "freedom" into tools of control. For Agamben, the law remains in force without meaning, which is the "ultimate horror of Wittgenstein's language games" [Agamben, Homo Sacer, 2017]. Wittgenstein's demand for clarity is for Agamben [2022] a political act: a refusal of the commands shouted in the "burning house."

Karl Popper criticized Wittgenstein because the criterion of meaning cannot be based on verifiability, as it would make even scientific theories meaningless. Wittgenstein's later influence on political theory emphasizes the need to move from "non-language" toward conceptual clarity [Abdul Aziz]. In Finnish politics, terms like "welfare state" or "value-based" must be dismantled through their usage. This demand for clarity is a messianic act that breaks the hypertrophy of the law [Agamben, ”Church and Kingdom”, 2012]. Phelps reminds that Mammon has taken the place of God, turning "I–Thou" relationships into cold "I–It" relationships [Oudshoorn, 2020]. The throne (hetoimasia tou thronou) is in reality empty, and salvation is found in messianic inoperativity [Phelps, 27.11.2012; Agamben, ”Church and Kingdom”, 2012]. Durantaye illuminates this absorption of theology into thought [Durantaye, 2012]. Hollis Phelps challenges us to see Jesus as an anti-capitalist thinker who separates life from work and money; Jesus calls for the restoration of life's immediacy [Oudshoorn, 2020]. Only such a profanation of language and action could return life to itself, free from names, debt, and the splendor of empty glory [Phelps, 27.11.2012].

Alexander Dugin declares the "Baal cult" is removing its mask and calls for a state of emergency against evil [Дугин, "Меч Катехона", 1.3.2026; «Burning Baal», 8.3.2026]. Krzysztof Karczewski and Dugin even outline an active counter-offensive against the technological project [Karczewski, 4.3.2020][Dugin, 4.3.2026]. Juha Molari [Molari, ”The Katechon” 5.3.2026], however, points out that Dugin politicizes Paul's term katechon (2 Thess. 2:6–7) inaccurately. Dugin's response is to fit the word "katechon" used by the Apostle Paul to Russia, which would repel evil as a mission from God. Doctor of Theology Juha Molari [Molari, ”The Katechon” 5.3.2026] critically notes that Dugin builds an image of Russia as the "last fortress" and the restrainer of civilization; he relies inaccurately on terminology based on Paul's second letter to the Thessalonians. Paul writes: "And now you know what is restraining (to katekhon), that he may be revealed in his own time. For the mystery of lawlessness (mysterion tes anomias) is already at work; only he who now restrains (ho katekhon) will do so until he is taken out of the way." (2 Thess. 2:6–7). In Dugin's hands, this theological mystery becomes a justification for "atomic Orthodoxy," but exegetical examination shows that such politicization ignores the complexity of the original text.

Molari reminds [Molari, ”The Katechon” 5.3.2026] that the greatest gap between Dugin and biblical studies arises from the "radical hypothesis" presented by Michael R. Stead and Donald Robinson. Stead and Robinson offer an exciting interpretation of the Greek verb katechein [Stead, 2008][Robinson, 1964]. According to them, "ho katekhon" might not be a protector at all, but rather a satanic "occupier" or "oppressor" who currently holds the world and prevents the full liberation of the church. Stead argues that the term refers to Satan himself, who occupies God's world and delays the messianic fulfillment. In light of this analysis, Dugin's claim of Russia as the "brake" of history is turned upside down: what he calls the protection of civilization may in fact be part of the mystery of lawlessness holding humanity in its grip [Stead, 2008; Krodel, 1990]. Another key challenge to Dugin's state messianism comes from the theories of Roger David Aus. Aus suggests that the background to 2 Thess. lies in the Hebrew verb 'asar, which means not only to restrain but also to "close the womb" [Aus, 1977]. In this view, the restrainer is God himself, who delays the return of His Son solely out of patience, so that the mission command and the plan of evangelization may be fulfilled (cf. 2 Pet. 3:9). According to Aus, it is not about political institutions, but about the salvation-historical schedule set by God (en to heautou kairo). This places Russia's state eschatological positioning and military purge in a strange light.

The question of the "man of lawlessness" (ho anthropos tes anomias) also requires a return to the text. Fritz W. Röcker links the concept strongly to the Jewish Belial tradition and reminds us that many scholars, such as Wilhelm Bousset, saw in him historical echoes of, for example, Emperor Caligula's attempt to erect his statue in the Jerusalem temple [Röcker, 2009; Bousset, 1895]. Most importantly, one must note where the lawless man situates himself. Karol Piotr Kulpa [2022], following Tyconius, reminds us that evil is not merely external, geographical, or a political enemy (such as "the West"), but it is present within the church, in its "state of duality." The man of lawlessness seeks to take God's place specifically in the temple [Stefanovic, 2023]. This makes any political power that claims to be "holy" biblically suspicious: the power sitting in the temple is often precisely the one that has distorted the gospel for its own glory [Luther, 1523]. Johannes Munck argued decades ago that Paul himself or his evangelizing work was the restraining factor of the Antichrist [Munck, 1954; Röcker, 2009]. If the restrainer is a spiritual mission or the Word of God, the salvation of civilization is not found in national borders or nuclear weapons, but in faith and the proclamation of the Word. Fundamentally, the words of 2 Thessalonians function as a warning against the sacralization of power. Janusz Kucicki [1967] compares Paul's eschatology to the Qumran texts, where the power of evil is strictly limited according to the schedule set by God. Man cannot arbitrarily accelerate or slow down this process by political means. Dugin's adoption of the katekhon concept is thus a civilization-related distortion: it tries to change Paul's warning into a ruler's decree, even though the original text refers to a deeper, divine mystery that is beyond human control [Byrd, 8.12.2023; Munck, 1954].

Molari appeals in his criticism [Molari, ”The Katechon” 5.3.2026] to Dustin J. Byrd, who warns that the politicization of the katechon concept gives a mandate to dictatorship and sacralizes wars of aggression [Byrd, 8.12.2023]. In the twilight of civilization, the katechon question thus returns to the source of power: is it Empire, law, or God's grace? Agamben's analysis of the state of exception and biopower serves as an intellectual historical warning, while Luther urges trust in a victory that is madness to the world. Molari [Molari, ”The Katechon” 5.3.2026] writes of the problematic point of Russian political philosophy of religion, that the theological perspective should instead be left ultimately as a silent warning, unlike Dugin's approach, for what we consider a protector may be an oppressor, and what we consider a delay is in fact God's time of grace [Munck, 1954; Stead, 2008].

Agamben urges speaking the truth in the "burning house" [Agamben, 2022; Emmanuel, 8.3.2026]. Žižek suggests a retroactive analysis of history in the midst of catastrophe [Žižek, ”retroactive analysis”, 6.2.2026]. At the peak of moral reflection, Žižek, former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, philosopher Maria Balaska, and anthropologist Richard Wrangham debate the utility of good and evil [Žižek, Williams, Balaska & Wrangham, 8.2.2024]. Williams reminds of man's damaged nature, Balaska links goodness to the accurate perception of reality, and Wrangham sees categories as social constructs [Žižek, Williams, Balaska & Wrangham, 8.2.2024]. Žižek analyzes "perverse politics" and shamelessness in Israel's actions, highlighting the Sde Teiman torture scandals and parliamentary debates on the justification of rape [Žižek, ”Psychoanalyses of Israel”, 6.12.2025]. He demands the rediscovery of shame, for perversion is the ultimate betrayal of desire [Žižek, ”Psychoanalyses of Israel”, 6.12.2025]. Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel calls for prayer and peace instead of hate [Timeisnear, ”Trump vs. Bishop Mari Mari”, 2.3.2026]. Meanwhile, CNN reports demands to put Pete Hegseth and Marco Rubio under oath regarding "wars of choice" [CNN, ”Hegseth & Rubio”, 10.3.2026]. Ontological collapse is condensed into the "Baal cult" [Burning Baal, 8.3.2026].

Immanuel Kant's thoughts on pure reason feel vital in the midst of chaos [Then & Now, ”Kant”, 16.9.2022]. Kant reminds us of the categorical imperative: act in such a way that your action could become a universal law [Then & Now, ”Kant”, 16.9.2022]. Following Kant, Dostoevsky also says compassion is the most important law of humanity, and forgetting it leads to destruction [Dostojevski, 1864]. Jacques Ellul declares the same, whose critical views on wealth, greed, and the power machinery of the rich—as well as against militancy—could illuminate the ethical problems of Finland's economic policy [Ellul 1964, 2011]. Professor of sociology of law Ellul was a Christian pacifist anarchist who opposed all forms of dominance and authority, including "gigantic financial, commercial, and media structures that dominate life" [Ellul 2011]. He strongly criticized the bureaucratic and efficiency-centered system of modern technological society, where "technique" has become an end in itself and displaces moral concerns in economic activity [Ellul 1964]. The government's policy of war and cuts, which prioritizes the enrichment of the well-to-off over caring for the poor, is from Ellul's perspective a symptom of this supremacy of technique. He would see politics that destroy nature and weaken people's social security as evidence of greed and the concentration of power, where those in power use the system for their own benefit. Ellul also emphasized the role of propaganda in technological society, where it helps people adapt to the disturbances of society and maintains the status quo [Ellul 1964]. Thus, "lack of alternative" talk can be seen as propaganda fed by the government, which prevents citizens from questioning existing structures and demanding radical changes. Ellul's "anarchist" position seeks freedom against all kinds of authorities and power machineries, encouraging grassroots action and the creation of small communities as a counter-force to the centralization of the system [Ellul 2011].

Jacques Ellul [1964, 2011] sees here the supremacy of technique and propaganda [Ellul 1964; Ellul 2011]. According to him, forgetting compassion leads to destruction [Dostojevski, 1864]. Hope is found in the kenosis model [Turgong, 2011] and Kant's categorical imperative [Then & Now, ”Kant”, 16.9.2022]. Žižek and Williams debate the utility of good and evil [Žižek, Williams, Balaska & Wrangham, 8.2.2024], and Žižek analyzes shamelessness in Israel's actions [Žižek, ”Psychoanalyses of Israel”, 6.12.2025]. In the midst of catastrophe, one must search for a wormhole [Žižek, ”Europe's role”, 12.4.2025; Tolokonnikova & Žižek, 5.11.2025]. We can still build something authentic [Fromm, 1956; Halliday, Ferber & Žižek, 17.4.2025].

Early Christians refused military service [Sider, 2012; Dombrowski, 2018], and Rabbi Aaron Samuel Tamares condemned "just war" as idolatry [Tamares, 2023]. Only an inner revolution and kenosis can ultimately stop this perverse cycle of destruction [Tamares, 2023; Jiang, ”Out of Control”, 10.3.2026]. The core of Christianity is God's renunciation of power [Žižek, ”Re-election of Trump”, 28.11.2024; Jiang, ”Out of Control”, 10.3.2026].

Media hype and propaganda that captures minds works like a vampire. It sucks the subject dry by promising full jouissance, but leaves behind only a hidden void and a storehouse of forgetting. Media propaganda works like a vampire that sucks the subject dry. Lathouse is a hidden opening of being that produces traumatic void. In this situation, everyone momentarily receives the vampire's deceptive charm: both those speaking for Trump and those opposing him, as well as the dry analysts. The alethosphere represents the scientific world where aletheia means unveiling—a formal, technological, and homogenized reality that rules the symbolic order. Lathouse, on the other hand, is that which is not unveiled: a hidden opening of being, an alluring but empty storehouse of jouissance that produces real, traumatic void. On a psychic level, lathouse is a modern form of the objet a—that which fills the empty place but simultaneously reveals the void. On a societal level, it manifests in consumption, social media, health cults, current affairs discussion, and propaganda—places where being is replaced by mere allure. The shame called for by Copjec would be Lacanian: existential, philosophical, requiring the facing of uncomfortable truth—thus creating a deeper, painful ethical relationship to one's own being. That is, "to one's own being," not to the thoughts offered by vampires! Shame and an ethical relationship to one's own being are needed [Dostojevski, 1864; Papanikolaou, 2003].

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Juha Molari, BBA, Ph.D.

March 2, 2026 in Helsinki