Chaos is inevitable. Why must the old world order collapse? Igor Witkowski

Witkowski contrasts this method with the typical educational model, which he says codes children like tape recorders and kills intrinsic motivation. He cites Socrates’ maxim ‘know thyself’ as a foundation. His own experience teaching children showed that when they are given a real choice between a path of development and a path of apathy (as they see in older peers), they choose the former with strong motivation. He insists that the core of all educational reform must be the generation of the child’s own motivation for growth. In a society where 40% of students consider suicide, this relational, dialogical approach is literally a survival tool.

Witkowski designed a comic book titled ‘Podróż najowisza’ specifically to illustrate this choice for young readers. His experience proved that even children as young as 10 could grasp it immediately and felt enthused, voluntarily returning for more sessions. He contrasts this with the total failure of the school system, which not only ignores motivation but actively kills it through grades and external approval. He believes that if this method were scaled, the new generation could leap beyond the blocked adults and create a new civilization.

Witkowski created the comic as a strategic tool to reach young people, since direct outreach to adults is largely futile. He explains that the symbolic level is crucial because reality becomes illegible for unconscious people without symbols. By embedding the developmental choice in a mythic story, the message can lodge in the symbolic unconscious and generate autonomous motivation, which is resistant to the prevailing culture of regression. He sees this as part of the broader task of rebuilding the culture that will collapse.

Witkowski notes that the coming cultural collapse will be driven largely by a symbolic revaluation: people will reject old symbols (like those associated with the Dark Tetrad) because they will evoke disgust and revulsion once the true consequences are seen. In the interim, one can start that revaluation now by curating the symbolic environment. He mentions that advertisers already exploit this, which shows its power.

Witkowski argues that the current order is collapsing on multiple fronts—economic (mass layoffs, falling living standards), educational (schools where no child can read), and psychological (suicidal ideation in 40% of Polish students). He contends this collapse is inevitable because the pathologies are self-generated: people have ignored the developmental needs of children, embraced dogmatic thinking, and created a human being incapable of sustaining civilization. The coming chaos—financial meltdown, social breakdown, the unmasking of dark personality traits—is not meant to terrify but to force people to see the consequences of their choices. Only when they experience revulsion and shame will they be open to the solutions he proposes, which center on rebuilding human development from childhood upward.

Witkowski explains that the financial meltdown will strip away the material assets that currently keep these traits in check. When people lose their property and status, the underlying aggression, lack of empathy, and sadism—already measured in studies—will erupt into street-level violence. He predicts this will cause a moral shock: society will see the ‘beast’ they have created and be forced to reject the ideological and educational patterns that produced it. This, he argues, is not a dystopian fantasy but a necessary unveiling that makes genuine change possible. He specifically mentions that the Dark Tetrad is concentrated among young adherents of certain left-wing ideologies, a claim that is likely controversial.

He clarifies that while adults can modify specific behaviors or adopt new programs through indoctrination, a true restructuring of the psyche—full consciousness connecting to the rest of the mind—is effectively impossible for a grown person. He even mentions that the clinical method of breaking down a personality and rebuilding it would likely kill many patients. Therefore, all hope rests on the next generation. The collapse serves to force adults to accept changes in education and childhood development because they cannot remake themselves. He notes that the only historical example of a genuine leap in consciousness was Ancient Greece, which lacked organized religion and dogma, and that this leap occurred over centuries.

Witkowski provides three main cases. First, castration of boys for church choirs from the 2nd to the 19th century, based on a theology that a castrated boy becomes an angel with salvific power; this alone involved millions of victims. Second, on Sicily, every August during the Feast of the Mother of God, children were hung on a rotating device and died in agony; priests paid mothers for the ‘blood sacrifice,’ and it continued openly for hundreds of years. Third, in Orthodox Russia, infants were baptized in ice-cold water at -25°C for 45 minutes to an hour, with an explicit ban on mourning because ‘God rejoices at their death.’ He stresses that these acts were public, witnessed by thousands, yet completely erased from collective memory. He ties this to the psychology of dogmatism: when conscious reason is blocked, archaic unconscious contents—including prehistoric motifs of child sacrifice—surface and become systematized.

He points out that many scientists have wondered why the unique shift to rational, self-reflective thought happened only in Greece and not in Egypt, Mesopotamia, or elsewhere. The one concrete difference was that Greece had no organized religious hierarchy enforcing dogma. This insight, he says, shows how powerful a barrier to human development organized religion is. He uses this to argue that the current religious/political dogmatic systems must be dismantled—not just the Catholic Church but all systems of thought control—if humanity is to make a similar quantum leap in consciousness. The coming collapse will destroy these systems and create a space for genuine development.

Witkowski asserts that after John Paul I’s death, the problems were swept under the rug. He shares that a contact within the Church told him that everyone in the hierarchy has compromising material on everyone else, much like a mafia, making any internal reform impossible. This creates a self-perpetuating system where advancement depends on being sufficiently compromised, ensuring loyalty. He implies that this structure enables and protects the kinds of child trafficking and abuse networks mentioned elsewhere, such as children disappearing from refugee camps in Greece (approximately 300), which a police researcher tied to organized crime’s shift from drug trafficking to human trafficking.