Moral Collapse and Moral Compass: Permanently Misplaced

"I’ve always been fascinated by the idea of time travel."

Not for the flying cars or shiny tech. But to test a theory:

If I were dropped into the 17th or 18th century...What would I, a modern 21st-century digital being, have to offer?

The answer is painfully simple: absolutely nothing.

I wouldn’t know how to build a fire without a lighter. I wouldn’t be able to explain electricity, let alone recreate it. I couldn’t grow my own food, sew my own clothes, or survive a single winter. But worst of all? I’d fail miserably at teaching them how to be human.

Because in the one thing we should’ve mastered by now - Compassion. Empathy. Integrity. Basic decency. We’ve completely lost the plot. And ended in complete moral collapse.

And now imagine it the other way around. One of them landing here. A time traveller from 1725 stepping into a world of infinite knowledge, instant communication, flying machines……only to see us fighting over parking spaces, bombing each other for power, and swiping away human connection like it’s spam.

They’d ask:“Where’s your moral compass?” And we’d answer: “Compass? …What?”

We didn’t just lose our moral compass. We sold it, streamed it, commodified it, and then made a meme out of it.

The bar for decency didn’t just drop. It’s been drilled into the Earth's crust.

We scroll past war footage between makeup tutorials. We film people having seizures instead of helping. We share “thoughts and prayers” but wouldn’t lend our neighbor a charger. We cheer for billionaires building rockets while ignoring those who can’t afford insulin. We let algorithms decide who deserves visibility and who gets erased.

And worst of all? We got used to it.

We normalized exploitation, violence, greed, vanity - as if it were the weather. Uncontrollable and unavoidable. Just something that happens.

We used to tell stories to teach values. Now we tell stories to sell shoes. We used to dream of a better world. Now we dream of going viral.

The Responsibility We Denied – Alone and Together

You knew. I knew. We all knew.

That fast fashion exploits. That cheap meat means someone... or something ...pays the real price. That our clicks fuel the very system we claim to hate. That silence is compliance. And yet… we carried on.

We waited for “the system” to fix itself, for governments to grow a conscience, for tech CEOs to find empathy. We waited and in the meantime, we streamed another episode.

We treated the Earth like a service. People like content. And justice like an optional feature.

We acted like morality is someone else’s job.

But here’s the thing: Systems are made of people. And every algorithm, every policy, every atrocity was tolerated, enabled, sometimes even applauded by millions of tiny daily decisions.

Somewhere along the line, we forgot: There is no “they.” Only us.

Where were you when one million children vanished this year?

Where were you when truth became entertainment and justice a luxury item?

Where were you when kindness became a branding strategy and morality a punchline?

Where were you when the last bee died and your smoothie still tasted sweet?

What did you say when power was louder than the people, when silence felt safer than spine?

You recycled. You liked posts. You shared hashtags. You said, “It’s complicated.”And slept like a baby.

But you were part of this. You bought it. You voted for it. You laughed at it. You ignored it. You defended it. You lived off it.

This is not just the story of a collapsing planet. This is the collapse of the human soul.

We didn’t just fail to save the Earth. We failed to save what it meant to be human.

The Ten Commandments are not religious footnotes. They were an attempt to contain human madness before it could be systematized.

And today?

“Thou shalt not kill.”→ Broken in the name of nation, oil, politics, honor, revenge, religion, self-defense... even in the name of freedom.

“Thou shalt not steal.”→ Broken by banks, corporations, governments... using laws they wrote themselves.

“Thou shalt not lie.”→ Welcome to the age of PR, manipulation, and alternative facts.

“Thou shalt have no other gods before me.”→ We’ve created new ones: Likes. Followers. Money. Power. Youth. Status. Control.

And the worst violation of all: Worship of the Devil... not as a figure, but as a principle: Destruction. Greed. Hatred. Violence. Division. Vanity. And we celebrate it... in shows, in music, in fashion, in rituals.

And then there’s the Church. The one that used to preach these commandments…Blesses wars. Stays silent on abuse. Invests in weapons. Smiles from the pulpit. And calls it “God.” And still dares to quote love.

The curtain falls. And no, there’s no encore. Just one final spotlight. On you. And a quiet voice asking:

"What did you do, when it still mattered?"

"What once guided us lies in ruins. And nobody even noticed."