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Chapter Four of the Series “The Monstrosity of Our Century”

When It Is the Human Being — Not the World — That Is Being Rebuilt

Laala Bechetoula
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When It Is the Human Being — Not the World — That Is Being Rebuilt

In the previous three articles, we walked the reader through the hidden layers of The Monstrosity of Our Century: the layer of blood, the layer of language, the layer of power, and the layer of a global order collapsing without noise. But the final and most unsettling chapter—the one upon which all others rest—is not about states, alliances, or shifting maps. It is about the human being.

The being who once stood at the center of morality, the axis of law, the foundation of legitimacy, and the measure of justice has been quietly relegated—almost without noticing—to something else: a replaceable unit, a manageable component, a dispensable variable.

The book forces us into the most difficult confrontation: The true monstrosity of this century is not what happens to the world — but what happens to the human being within it.

  1. The Human Reduced to an “Object”

A careful reading of this chapter reveals a disturbing shift: The human being is no longer treated as an autonomous moral entity nor as a bearer of intrinsic value. He is increasingly described as a “file” in the UN Security Council, a “number” in humanitarian reports, “collateral” in military operations, a “case” in media coverage, a “data point” in political analysis, and a “detail” in geopolitical planning.

This is more than a symptom. It is a project: the de-centering of the human. A deliberate transformation from a subject of moral concern into an administrative category.

  1. The Human Reprogrammed Through Consciousness

This chapter does not simply document the erosion of values; it goes further: How does one engineer a human being who tolerates injustice, accepts official narratives, and continues to function despite overwhelming tragedy?

The implications are unmistakable: a new psychology is being built — through repetition of traumatic images, inflation of crises, media-driven distraction, collective numbness, shrinking the space for action, and turning tragedy into “content.”

The outcome is a new type of person: one who sees everything — and moves toward nothing. Not because he is immoral, but because his capacity for refusal has been quietly extinguished.

  1. The Human Who Slowly Loses His Memory

The most dangerous idea here is subtle but clear: The international system is not only hiding crimes — it is erasing the memory of those crimes within the human being.

By turning tragedy into breaking news, then regular news, then old news, then a forgotten detail, until it disappears entirely, injustice becomes structural — a background noise instead of a moral alarm.

Thus emerges a generation with no moral memory: a generation that knows the details of a catastrophe but no longer feels its weight.

  1. The Human Redefined Outside Morality

The global order does not seek a “moral human” or a “truth-seeking human,” but an efficient human: adaptable, with short memory, emotionally neutral, reluctant to question power, compliant with official narratives, and accepting that lives are unequal.

This human is not an accident. He is the product of design — engineered to be less resistant, less questioning, less ashamed, less angry, and ultimately… less human.

  1. The Arab and Muslim Human — at the Center of This Shift

The chapter touches its most sensitive point: The Arab and Muslim human being is the prime target of this transformation — not because he is weak, but because he possesses the strongest moral memory, an enduring ethical tradition, and a narrative that challenges global power.

The system does not need to silence Arabs; it only needs to scatter their awareness, flatten their debates, drown them in triviality, and convert action into commentary.

This is not a doctrine — it is an architecture embedded in modern life.

  1. The Final Truth: The Greatest Violence Is in the Human Mind

The most dangerous form of violence today is not exercised on the body but on consciousness. Bodies heal. Cities are rebuilt. But consciousness, once reshaped, does not return to what it was.

The new world does not need to kill the human being. It needs a human being who will not resist in the first place.

Epilogue

What remains after exposing blood, language, power, and the human? One question: Can we resist the redesign of our consciousness? Can we remain witnesses rather than spectators? Narrators rather than consumers?

The Monstrosity of Our Century is not a book about the world — but a warning about a world in which the human being is gradually stripped of his human function.

This series has only illuminated the path.

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