New world orders, those kind of orders that go out of order

In every era, people seem to believe they are witnessing the arrival of a new world order. However, it has come to my notice that each time these structures begin to take shape, they are reshaped again along a different path often disrupted by a force stronger than politics or the economy: human nature.

We may be living through one of the most difficult times. On top of a pandemic that reminded us that nothing stands above nature, we are also experiencing some of the most complex political and economic shifts this race toward global integration.

“Integral,” a word originating from mathematics, refers to a combination of infinitesimal data. Infinitesimal data-values so small they are almost invisible, numbers that do not exist in the standard real number system. In many ways, this is what these world orders resemble: Data points too subtle for the human eye to fully grasp cannot take full shape within communities or produce a tangible outcome.

But can something so detached from the reality of societies truly take root within the system? Or will the unpredictability of human nature alter its course? Or will nature itself, with a force far greater, bring everything back to ground?

What is certain is this: no matter how sophisticated these orders may seem, they are not equations. They exist within human lives within flesh, emotion, contradiction. And because of that, they remain no more than infinitesimal data, no matter how far they extend eventually bending, shifting, and going out of order.