Confrontation and Chaos "Esse est percipi" – this Latin phrase means to exist is to be perceived.
Do you ever ask yourself, "I exist now, but am I being perceived?"
After the past year we've experienced, it's hard to provide a definitive answer to that question;
In an age where information flows more freely and easily than ever, there must be a reason why our lives have become more difficult due to the unprecedented intensity and ease with which information can be polluted.
Can we seek answers to our question in the paradox of how what was once difficult is now easy, or how what was once easy has become difficult?
While we feel we can access material things more easily than ever before, feeling distanced from spiritual matters yet longing for even the simplest taste or texture seems to harbor contradictions within itself. Could it be that the rising costs of material living conditions, which we have never experienced before, or the ever-increasing egos and ambitions, along with the scales of justice always tipping to one side, have led to our thoughts and souls being crushed and fragmented within mere perceptions?
Every era has its mental illnesses; I observe that the illness of our time is burnout syndrome or the fatigue society. Why does everyone feel so tired and worn out now? The society of the past century was characterized as a disciplined society, while our contemporary society is labeled as a performance society. I believe we are tired because capitalism has opened the door to individual freedom, and the technology that should facilitate our lives has instead forced us to perform more, pushing us towards speed and ambition while stripping us of our emotions.
Regardless of the era we live in, there must be a reason for our existence in this life.
But this reason cannot be as narrow as material things, nor should we become slaves to material possessions in the name of nourishing our spirituality.
Are you aware that we no longer have time even to ask questions?
Immanuel Kant said, "Nothing straight can be made from the crooked timber of humanity."
Are we really just crooked and warped timber?
We have experienced a year where ideological leaders have gained strength in Eastern societies, while in the West, wealthy leaders have consolidated their power.
In this time frame, where we face the efforts of new leaders, who derive their financial power from republics to create a new dynasty from the ruins of family monarchies, how will the new year we are about to enter drag our world into risks?
Darem Aceloğlu, a scientist born, raised, and educated on our soil, summarized his Nobel-winning article by discussing global income inequality and the international developmental disparities that align with administrative differences; the best example of this is the division of North and South Korea in the 1950s – the same ethnicity but showing differences in purchasing power and development index due to administrative differences. The technological transformation brought by our age, especially artificial intelligence, is rapidly creating a vortex that shifts labor from humans to machines, and when combined with the decline in fertility rates and the rapid rise in average age in developed economies, a bleak future is anticipated for developing and underdeveloped countries, which is argued to be unsustainable for global prosperity (the most crucial element of global peace). The end of the Cold War and the birth of the internet accelerated globalization, which seemed to be a step towards peace, but now, the greatest factor in the geopolitical tensions and wars we are experiencing is income inequality, alongside the adequacy/inadequacy and success/failure of governance institutions in countries, where the successful ones fail to assist the unsuccessful, leading to an increase in tensions fueled by the nationalism that allows the unsuccessful to hide behind. Outside of all these human cycles, the greatest risk to humanity's future, climate change, is increasingly forgotten as tensions rise...
The year 2025 carries the risk of being a year of introspection and chaos for all of us.
We need to guide our youth more accurately; We must show that while the past and present may appear quantitatively different, they are qualitatively the same. Universal truths will not change, the struggle between the good and the bad will not end, only the methods will change; we need to instill the awareness that the remembered are the good, and those we wish to forget are the bad.
In order to truly be an advanced society in every sense in the future,
We must continue to teach that our only remedy and salvation lies in following the contemporary ideas left to us by our Great Leader Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.
How fortunate we are to have had a founding leader who guided us on this path a century ago. As a society, we must return to the modern path shown by our founder as soon as possible. Because we no longer have a single day to lose...
I wish everyone a Happy and Thoughtful New Year...
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