If I start with “What is reality”?
It is what we live right now.

German philosopher H. Rickert says: Experienced reality is a story narrated. So it is speech. It is a topic discussed. For example, my identity is a story narrated. Another example, everybody has been talking about the crisis for years… It actually happens because it is narrated.

As Yohanna’s word in the Gospel, the word became flesh and blood (Le Verbe s’est fait chair). It means knowledge is always ahead of reality.

Science also verifies it and mentions the same topic in spirituality. What is to pray? To reveal an intention. In this sense, what does performing salaat mean? Revealing your intention is to tend to make your intentions real.

Let’s think an engineer. When he solves a problem, first, dreams of it. Shows his intention. Draws. Calculates. Tries to make shapes of the substance and thus creates a new reality. There is an intention matter here.

There are people who show different intentions in our world. Some of them are willing to earn money. Some want to take care of other people. Some want to live peacefully.
Others think that if you want peace, you will be prepared to fight.… How can all this create a reality? First, we are supposed to agreed. In the dialog. If you allow people to discuss these words/thoughts, at least mutual intentions start to form.

For example, diplomacy is beneficial for it. A consul is busy with it. They are called “Ambasador” in the West. The word originally comes from the Latin word “Ambactus ten” which means “slave, servant”. That person is a messenger sent to the enemy side in wars. However, since it is unknown that this person will return (because he takes his life in his hands). That person is considered a slave of that message. So, a slave of the word.
There is no consul to keep the right word. All consuls work for advantages of their own group, not the whole.

For example, health sector.
As I mentioned at the beginning, it is a story narrated. However, it is not real or it will be real for only rich groups. Servants of those groups. You can say that a consul is a representative of a nationality, however that person is actually a representative of a party.
Sometimes these groups represent the dark side of life, sometimes the bright side. This darkness and brightness are related to each other as yin and yang. The only matter we have to pay attention is that one does not dominate the other. I mean equation is required.

Marshal Rosenberg expresses: words are windows or walls.
There is an educational topic which is discussed in the West: undynamic communication or to communicate not resorting to violence.
Because violence is everywhere. Almost every moment in our life.
Car noises in streets are also violent, looks are violent, words are generally violent, behavior, attitudes are also the same…

If you experience reality through violence, then you become attentive.
To pay attention: it is intelligence of braveness. It is not to get scared.
Aristotle calls it Fronesis.
To change reality after experience it.
For example, the crises which we are in what means us? What opportunities can we obtain?

Let us start with what we said: Let us face the crisis.
How does it make “sound” for us?
For example, there is a conflict/disagreement and we deny it. This situation will blow up at the end.
Greek called it “epoke”. It means no judgment. I will not judge anyone. Only, I will just stop my thoughts. I will listen to the world and observe it. For this, I will give time for myself, then I will think again.

Let’s take a look at this crisis without judgment.

I have been hearing the word “crisis” since my childhood. It is not new for me.
Current health crisis; it is a media crisis. Media is sick.
Democracy is sick. Financial sector is sick. Economy is sick.
This crisis is a crisis of key values. Let’s look at success criteria in society: to earn more money and to possess more property. And not to be an individual at the same time: not to create “WE” as individuals.

Initiation ceremonies were performed for young people in old tribes: it is called “rite of passage”. A young person is supposed to overcome a challenge in this ceremony.
For example, that person is buried for 3 days, he/she can sit in a fire circle in the forest… Here, the young man understands it: You will die, however, there is a shaman who will guide you. You will join a group, that is, the warrior group after this ceremony.
Men experience this initiation while women suffer child-birth pains. It is also an initiation. It hurts to reach adulthood from youth. It is hurtful to be a human.
Infants fall fifty times until they learn how to walk. Walking is a step to a new situation. It is painful.

There is a crisis to be an individual in the world.
Heidegger tells.
What does it mean: technical system and sociocultural system are related to each other. Technical system generally develops and then sociocultural system uses that technique.
means there is no harmony between the technical system and the sociocultural system. There is not connection. Technical system is rapidly evolving. In the past, the head of a tribe, who is the oldest person in the tribe, used to organize the sociocultural system. However, people who develop the technique organize it.

Let us summarize it so: who decides to have a cell phone in your child’s pocket?
You?
No.
You just follow.
Companies producing cell phones decide it.
Is not it strange? A company decides what kind of contact we should be in. They decide how you consume, what you consume, how you contact, how you get access with computers.
These companies are called “interticiel” in the West. It means you cannot stay away from them easily. When you give your hand you lose your mind, too.
They develop a rape culture; to capture every moment of our life; they can enter into our life though.

We have been hearing the concept “disruption” for years.
It is actually about the disengagement between technical system and sociocultural system.
This concept is taught in all graduate school.
It is expressed that it is necessary to “disrupt” the system.
It actually means to destroy all regulations constituting the system.
For example, Uber is created to destroy the taxi system.
Netflix is created to demolish cinema.
These evolutions devastate social groups.

There used to be a group named We. The group has been destroyed, however non-individuals exist.
So, what can be concluded: not individuated individuals, individualistic people. Check Instagram, people are generally at the same type.
Individualists try to meet in small groups; for example, ecologists, deists, narcissists… they try to impose their views on others.
These groups try to capture the Law, thus they are willing to impose their own ethe in a legal way.

Bernard Stigler moots a concept called “Protention”: It means where we go together positively.
As there were no positive protention left, negative protention existed.
For example, you can read on social media that it is the end of the world.
Yet, a human used to think about it in every period.
Gilgamesh, Noah’s flood, Apocalypse… they are not new. There was a meaningful idea of these points in the past.
There is only destruction now.
It is actually the thing we call a “crisis”. It means we do not have a story to build this world together.
Then let’s write this story.

I wrote before. Human beings cannot seal their own destiny, narcissistic perverts in Silicon Valleh decide instead of them. The only thing they fear is death, they try not to die.
Their positive pretention is to be alone and die. Paranoid perverts have the same problem, to be alone and not to have connection with others. What do they do to defeat death?
Technology
This is called transhumanism. You will be saved because we will load you on a USB card. It is actually a nightmare. Even if we are loaded onto the USB card, we are still alone and in pain again. What changed?
There are two matters for me: commitment to each other and the story we narrate together.
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When we observe the world is getting to totalitarianize. No need to be scared of it. Observing quietly is necessary.
With all our attention: it is necessary to be both alert and focused.
A human being has experienced this event many times in history; With the Khmer Rouge, Nazism, Mussolini, Stalin…
The differentiation between rich and poor is turning into a fault line. It is considered that the wealth of 10 people is equal to the wealth of 4 billion people.
We observe violence acts when totalitarianism emerges. The reason of it is a wish to create a reaction.
Where? In society.

It is required to move forward with this reaction. Because it is not possible to go back. Any civilization has not gone back in history. They have been overcame by progressive societies.
Maybe, these totalitarian actions would be better for all of us.
Renee Girard talks about mimetic violence.
What does it mean? If two parts have a fight with each other, there will a big scramble at the end and a scapegoat is chosen. The problem is solved thanks to it.

There is also nonviolent approach to this theory.
For example, why do these things make me angry by observing what goes on, trying to understand…
When take a look at myself, what I want as a human?
I want to be myself and get connected with others. To be safe and to express myself at the same time.
Can we go there? Together?
Look at the mainstream media, they also want the same things: To be us and get connected.
Nobody wants to be alone and to die. Nobody
When I observe old people around me, I see people with gloves, masks, colognes, alone, afraid of dying, suffering, just like the narcissistic perverts we just mentioned.

People who have kids know: There is an animated movie named Kiriku and witch.
There is a witch named Karaba, she steals water, bread, things…. She spreads rumors, sows discord among people, and disrupts the unity. She claims everything from the tribe.
She lives alone in her own shed. She only wants is to be admitted by the tribe.
Our hero Kiriku, a naked little boy, when observes what Karaba does he asks this question; Why is Karaba so angry? People of the village respond that because she wants water, she wants our stuff…. But this answer does not make Kiriku satisfied and he keeps asking the same question.
Why is she so angry?
Finally, his grandfather answers that Karaba is in pain.
Kiriku heals Karaba with his unconditional love.

How can we treat our patients and our narcissistic perverts with unconditional love? Not possible.
We need to show a balancing force against the narcissistic pervert.
There may be evil people, dragons, monsters in a tribe, people of the tribe have to keep those evils in a cave out of the village. Not in the village.
For example, monsters exist in fairy tales, they jump off a cliff, flow into the sea…but not killed. And we never see them again. So the fairy tale ends up.
It is time to name these monsters. In my opinion, it is time to stand up against them together.
The virus is not our monster.

We all know monsters; Media is among these monsters. I do not talk about journalists.
Politics is another monster. But not politicians.
There are many good people among journalists or politicians.
We are supposed to unite because the monster is so big, it is not possible to fight lonely.
We will both be united and rebound with the world by listening to the world.
None of us have a new iPhone, a bigger car, a more luxurious house, a vacation in Thailand… these are consumptions, not our necessities. All of them do not heal your pain.
It is necessary to return to main needs because they relieve our pains. To become unity is required for it.
If we prioritize life, there will be unity and loyalty.
A social group will emerge in this union; A group that will write its own story. This story will not be the story of the monster, it will be the story of the group.

How do we shut media up?
By turning off TV.
In fact, these groups that I mentioned are created in all western countries now. If groups are dispersed, united and organized it will work. It is not an easy task because we are not taught to be united and organized at schools. On the contrary, we are taught to be alone.
Can you ask your neighbor to shop for you?
It was possible 50 years ago.
Today, you ask it Migros Virtual markets.
Another example of media is that why there is only Youtube?
As a video channel? Why are not other video channels created or promoted if created? Single channel means monopoly. It means totalitarianism.
For example, Odyssey and Rumble are alternatives to Youtube. How many people do know them?
It is necessary to rewrite the policy.
So as not to be a part of few narcissistic perverts’ games.
How is it possible?

Now, we are only taught to have this idea whether to vote for blue or red. Not to talk to everyone. With those who do not think like us. Just for unity. Not for discrepancy.
Of course, there is also the legal system like politics. There is a concept named claiming our rights. Law is the cement of social unity. Here is what we mean by saying justice is the basis of property.
We should all lean on law. Law must be independent unconditionally.
A society that does not respite its rights cannot be a unity.

Currently, everyone has surrendered in the world. Law is also under the control of a monster, however, a hero will emerge in the society and he will encourage us by rebelling against the monster. His courage will encourage the whole tribe and cut the monster down to size.
What can happen if the whole tribe rebels?
They can see the hero Achilles’ heel. His weak point. The courage ball can grow like a snowball from that moment.
However, we should not wait for someone to come out as heroes, we should claim our rights at courts.
Therefore, a savior/messiah will not come.
We cannot defend our rights by marking LIKE on our phones.

Mankind is expected to have good days, because human beings deserve only beauties.

RECEP CIFTCI