In Turkish, we have approximately 78,000 root words. However, according to scientific research, most of us spend our days using around 400 words in our daily lives.
When we mathematically compare this, doesn’t it create a feeling that we are trapped in an incredibly small vocabulary?
But why do most of us prefer to settle for this shallow pool of words that we somehow confine ourselves to? Or why does a person who loves to seek more in every matter prefer to express themselves in such a shallow manner?
If we look at this issue from the perspective of those who say humans are rational, we might be mistaken. The first objection to the theory that humans are rational was made by the French Enlightenment thinker and writer Henri Poincaré in the late 19th century, who said, “The tendency of people to behave like sheep is overlooked; however, in many situations, people move together like sheep, and these collective movements often lead to irrational behaviors.”
Indeed, when people are afraid or in situations that create uncertainty for them, do they not often act in accordance with the movement of the crowd rather than through rational thought?
If we characterize such examples as the pluralistic shallowness turning into a community habit, can we conclude that we prefer simple, plain, and broadly meaningful words without rational elaboration?
And in fact, despite the reality that we have a vast and expansive consciousness, does filling it seem exhausting to us, or is it the shallow and simple that is imposed upon us? It is worth debating; I really love Plato’s philosophy of education. He completely rejected education in the form of lectures, presentations, and rote learning, and instead argued that the exchange of ideas and discussions is what keeps knowledge in our permanent consciousness.
Isn’t that absolutely reasonable?
Let’s probe what’s in our minds? What do we find hard to forget? Which things we see, hear, or read affect us? How do we forget or not forget?
In the summer of 2018, I wrote an article titled "A Global Financial Crisis is Coming."
In my writing, I tried to address why we are experiencing what we are today, mentioning the economic mistakes perpetuated by the ambitions of neoliberalism and monetarism, which saw only one solution path: massive borrowing and the unsustainable income inequality created by unjust income distribution.
I asked how many people read it, and they said 14,143 people read it. I wonder how many read it to the end or what they began to question after reading the article or how they tried to make their future plans and personal precautions based on these predictions. I do not know, but if you are reading this article now, it means you accept that four major words have been added to the shallow vocabulary we mentioned at the beginning of the article due to a necessary expansion in the last 6-7 months.
“Virus, Pandemic, Covid19, Corona”
We must admit that we are currently in a significant global financial crisis, exacerbated by the economic mistakes I identified in 2018, all under the pretext of these words created by a micro-organism whose weight is almost negligible.
On December 24, 1968, astronaut William Anders, one of the first humans to orbit our moon aboard the Apollo 8 spacecraft, made a very valuable comment after the iconic photo called "The Earthrise";
William Anders said, “The only thing in the universe that had color was the Earth. The Earth was very lonely; the universe was pitch black. I think it instilled in us this thought: ‘We must do everything we can to look at this blue marble.’”
The rise of capitalism is, in fact, a product of humanity’s inherent industriousness and rationality. If we could have created a correct, honest, just, and competitive free market economy, perhaps everything would have been very different and more justly accessible for all of us, but we could not.
In the theory of how humanity could develop, Adam Smith first mentioned it in his book “Wealth of Nations,” written in 1776.
The world, which met the understanding of mass production starting with the first industrial revolution, which is considered a significant milestone, began to undergo a great change by the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century.
Of course, the sudden changes triggered by such revolutions disrupted the entire life perspective and perceptions of the traditional structure, struggling to adapt, even failing to keep up, of the homo sapiens, who have an instinct to preserve the traditional structure.
For humans, who have a weakness for living in the shadow of their egos regarding self-control due to creation, the first result of the developing technology ended in a war that engulfed the world.
The deficiencies and mistakes in the applications that led to their first mistakes bore rotten fruit and resulted in the economic crisis of 1929.
The subsequent World War II was, in fact, a direct indicator of how economic prosperity could play a role in the governance of communities.
Homo sapiens, who tried to transition from the monarchies of kingdoms and sultanates to republic regimes where sovereignty passed unconditionally to the people, struggled greatly.
A leadership mechanism that could only come through the choice of individuals, not inherited from parents, began to create space for itself with its politics and determined the way to manage communities as influencing them in the easiest way.
Whether this form arises from the laziness of Homo sapiens or from the inner shallowness of humans who have yet to digest sovereignty is a matter for debate, but populism and nationalism, among the easiest influencing abilities, produced very misguided leaders after the 1929 crisis.
Years filled with incredible tragedies and evils opened graves for millions of people and painted every part of that blue marble, which looked so beautiful from our black-and-white moon, red.
At the end of these dark times, truly bad leaders who succumbed to their arrogance were eliminated, and leaders who thought of their people, even if they had different worldviews and perspectives, and united nations for this purpose, won.
In between, John Maynard Keynes, in 1944, proposed solutions to these mistakes, and his theory is still partially accepted as correct today.
Despite 60-70 years passing, we are once again faced with the reality that beautiful words like sovereignty is in the hands of nations have not fully nourished democracies in the world.
Within the triangle of ambition, power, and money, we are searching for a direction for the future of the BLUE MARBLE in the lap of arrogant, selfish, and autocratic leaders.
If we want to learn from the past, we must repeatedly remember and remind our surroundings that the support given to such leaders only results in conflict, war, blood, and pain.
There is a great need for a new world story that will encompass all societies living on our blue marble, and we can only succeed if we can produce and choose democratic, libertarian, just, contemporary, and honest leaders who can think of all the people living on Earth...
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