Culling, Chaos, and the Illusion of Prosperity “Culling is God’s Natural Order” is a chilling phrase from Dan Brown’s Inferno. In the novel, it is used to rationalize mass death as a corrective force — epidemics and catastrophes as brutal but necessary resets when humanity overshoots its limits. Nature, indifferent and impartial, restores balance through pandemics, earthquakes, and accidents. God, in this framing, does not intervene in family feuds, labor disputes, or border skirmishes; those are human trivialities. But large-scale extinction events? They are seen as part of a cosmic accounting system. This raises an uncomfortable question for our times: how should we interpret a Third World War — not accidental, but deliberate — systematically initiated and orchestrated by a superpower at the whim of a single individual, unchecked by institutions or balances? Can such a war be folded into the idea of “natural order,” or does it represent something fundamentally different? Unlike epidemics or earthquakes, war is not an act of nature. It is an act of intent. It is engineered scarcity, manufactured destruction, and programmed suffering. When destruction is automated through drones, algorithms, sanctions, and proxy conflicts, the moral distance between decision-makers and consequences grows dangerously wide. To label this as “culling” is to grant it an undeserved metaphysical dignity. This is not nature correcting excess; it is power testing its limits. And yet, the world sends mixed signals. If stock markets are to be believed — the supposed barometers of prosperity — everything appears oddly normal, even exuberant. Markets soar, indices hit new highs, and wealth concentrates further at the top. At the peak, some are dizzy with gains. But beneath this altitude sickness lies a disturbing disconnect: markets are thriving while societies are fragmenting. Does this indicate continuing global prosperity? Hardly. Stock markets no longer reflect the lived reality of the majority. They measure liquidity, speculation, and future expectations of profit — not human well-being. A war-driven economy can inflate markets through defense spending, reconstruction contracts, and resource extraction, even as millions are displaced, impoverished, or erased. This contradiction reveals a deeper truth: affluence at the top can coexist with catastrophe below. Prosperity, when narrowly defined, can flourish amid ruins. The market does not mourn; it recalculates. If “culling” exists, it is no longer God’s natural order. It has been privatized, weaponized, and outsourced to systems of power that operate without accountability. And unlike natural disasters, this form of destruction is neither impartial nor inevitable. It is chosen. That distinction matters — because what is chosen can also be stopped. #🚹உளவியல் சிந்தனை #📺அரசியல் 360🔴