I was smoking outside my job. It was smoking zone but I was still feeling not good enough because my colleague was having her lunch in the outside-air, we both prefer open air then ac puffed air. So my inner sense was telling me that even that was a smoking zone, I felt I was violating my colleague’s surrounding. Why should I even feel that? 

I was abiding social law. But here is the answer: when this inner-International law rests on an ideal: that states are equal moral agents restrained by shared norms—you can fairly consider Plato's ideal state here. The UN Charter forbids the use of force except under narrow conditions—self-defense, collective authorization, or consent. On paper, this is a civilizational achievement. We follow everyone and everything as mentioned in paper. In reality, law floats above power, dependent on it for enforcement. There is no global sovereign, no impartial force capable of binding those who dominate militarily, economically, and narratively. Law exists, but it bends where power insists. That is what happened recently in Valenzuela. This does not mean anyone can invade anyone. It means some can, and others cannot. Power produces asymmetry. Even if you are wrong your neighbor’s neighbor can't say bad to you. Either your neighbor or your household member are permitted to punish you. Who allowed you to enter someone else's territory? The same act condemned when performed by a weak state becomes “stability,” “security,” or “law enforcement” when enacted by a powerful one. Long before it had started this sloth-colonialism. Language becomes armor: invasion is renamed intervention; domination is framed as responsibility. Yes, as you can see law is not abolished—it is selectively invoked. Here, as Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra emerges not as literature, but as diagnosis. What I am going to do is how this system of sloth-colonialism works!Zarathustra announces the death of God few hundreds years ago, when he announced it was not as theology, but as the collapse of a shared horizon of value. 

When no higher authority restrains power, what follows is not chaos but the reign of the Last Man—a figure who seeks comfort, security, and continuity above all else. Let me add here one perfect quote here:“We have invented happiness,” says the Last Man, meaning safety without purpose, peace without depth. Our Modern geopolitics, specially after world war II, increasingly mirrors this psychology. States no longer fight for truth, justice, or destiny. They fight to preserve markets, influence, stability, and dominance. When this function grows, Violence becomes administrative rather than tragic and this surgical strikes get into legal rationales and bureaucratic wars. Here in this stage peace starts to disintegrete. War become no more heroic; it shows it's managerial hopelessness. 

This is not strength, but fear disciplined into policy. When I was listening Zarathustra on my way to work this morning I got another (because I was ignoring this all human farse lately) notification from Google News, then I clicked it. Headline was something: Venezuela captured.I read it and at the same time I was listening Zarathustra so I started to relate this to our prophet.

 Zarathustra helps us see why international law falters here. Law presupposes values, right? This everyone gets it? When values decay, law becomes a mask for the will to power.The modern vocabulary of “rules-based order” often conceals the absence of any shared moral foundation. Power now speaks politely and utter first like—’we will consider not to be harder to anyone but it still speaks as power. That's a hard truths here. Crucially, Nietzsche’s Übermensch is not the imperial state. Empires are reactive, anxious, and nostalgic but they have symptoms of decline. The Übermensch creates values of course and he does not cling to dominance. That's must have we forgot to practice, I think. Modern invasions are therefore not signs of vitality, but of civilizational exhaustion. Everyone is rushing towards something but what if that destination would prove nothing?! They reveal systems struggling to maintain relevance after meaning has thinned but I ask here why even we are letting ourselves be thinned in such decadence. 

This insight resonates across traditions. Hindu cosmology names this condition Kali Yuga—an age where dharma weakens, truth diminishes, and power survives without wisdom. We are tired of being good maybe. Kings rule without restraint; speech replaces sincerity; might masquerades as righteousness. Recent invasion shows us this decline of humanity overall. What Kali Yuga describes mythically, Zarathustra diagnoses psychologically where I admire the Nietzsche most. We can see Different civilizations but same recognition. What we need to carefull is that the power without transcendence becomes destructive. Yes, few centuries you look great but ultimately your greatness would decline. 

Greek thought anticipated this realism. In Thucydides’ Melian Dialogue, justice is dismissed as irrelevant where power is unequal: “The strong do what they can; the weak suffer what they must.” And unfortunately Modernity did not defeat this logic but, as we can see, it refined it. Technology globalized it. What was once localized cruelty is now international strategy. Christian philosophy offers another mirror. The Tower of Babel warns against hubris—humanity building upward without humility, mistaking technical mastery for moral maturity. When can we learn to go higher then?! The result is fragmentation and confusion. Modernity’s towers are economic, military, and digital. The confusion remains.At the core of modern violence lies emptiness. When shared meaning collapses, growth replaces purpose. 

When you stop recognizing other as being then you would be no longer fine human being. From that point you started your declination. Resources replace values. Oil, trade routes, currencies, and influence become substitutes for transcendence but have your ever think that beyond that oil and power there must be something in us. When Violence cripples through you it follows emptiness as shadow follows body. See, this Modern wars are less about belief than about continuation—of systems, privileges, and dominance. Let me be clear with you, once again, What makes this age tragic is not ignorance. Humanity knows its history. We all know how hard was our padt. We studies past empires, genocides, and failures. We writes conventions and declarations. But knowledge does not govern action; desire does. Modernity mastered the means of action while abandoning reflection on the ends. 

We created god-like power without god-like responsibility.Zarathustra would say this age is not evil—it is tired. I would not dare to say we are evil but our actions are influenced by illusionary power hunger. It no longer knows what is worth dying for, so it kills to avoid decline. Law survives only where power permits it. Justice survives only where it is remembered, demanded, and resisted—often by those with the least power.Zarathustra does not end with despair, but with challenge. The question he leaves us is not whether modernity is advanced, but whether it can create new values strong enough to restrain itself.Until then, modern violence will continue—not as a return to barbarism, but as the final language of civilizations that have forgotten why they rule.