LOVE AND HATE POLITICS

 SOME PERSPECTIVES

Originally posted as responses to Quora questions

1. How are you going to show the sense of nationalism to your country?

Why should I? I do not believe that nationalism is a good or useful thing

Nationalism has no basis in rational thought, human psychology and value for scientific or educational development.

2. Should every country become self-reliant

No country can be self-reliant economically or politically. The rich countries need poorer countries for their raw materials and cheap labor and as markets for their industry.

The strong countries need politically weak ones to boss, to control and to assist them in achieving their diplomatic and militaristic aims.

The strong countries also experiment with social engineering and propaganda using their puppets in the weaker countries and the ignorance of the general population.

It is true that all of the above is temporary as human history goes, but there were always the exploited and the exploiters, the subjects and the law makers. Their descriptions change but not their characters. ethics, beliefs and self-righteousness which remain the same.

MILLENNIA OF PUZZLES

 

Some Romans,

citizens in Rome 

where meeting roads cause traffic jams

or citizenship seekers 

possibly lining up at gates of a civil office

not housing priceless art

 homelessly

even with asylum

trusting 

false hope and belief

in their mien and faith

for temporary illusory freedom 

And forgetting them for a moment or two

we continued looking for some Final Puzzle Pieces

 joined by slaves of our own making 

who searched on and under tables,

searched in folds of table cloth  and on carpets

tried dark corners of boxes

and darker corners through cataracts

spiralling towards a nuclear whole of unknown dimensions

that even Madam Sosostris could not see in her cards

which, to tell the truth, actually were the missing pieces

of the eternal puzzle that no citizen or refugee or slave 

will recognize, understand or solve.

ahmet Celebiler

March 4, 2022

Notes : Some of our travels took us to Rome where we argued family

membershop in EU; to Madrid where we mistook a queue of refugees for 

admision seekers to a minor museum; and back to The Wasteland where

non-terracotta armies actually fight for unfathomable reasons and black holes 

devour time crystals while T.S. Elliott talks to us of fortunes, family and cats.

HABITS AND PECULIARITIES OF THE POLITICIAN SPECIES

Politicians are not born but bred through painstaking education, training and the use of mirrors. This does not make them magicians but very susceptible to even the most inexperienced master of illusion, sometimes referred to as "Master of Lies" and its minions who own, manage and work for interest groups.

 Politicians , by definition, cannot have habits (even those that are worn)

Also there is usually nothing peculiar about them. The breed has been examined, investigated and studied for thousands of years, even before any of the social sciences were developed.

Their main undisclosed duty seems to be to make life miserable for humanity and to destroy the physical world humanity needs to survive.

They can mobilize ignorant, selfish, and greedy people through rhetoric, propaganda, control of the educational system and the media, and un-questioned belief systems using funds from vested interests and those they can usurp.

An Incident at the Eastern European Rift ( or the Bear River Bridge)

 

An Incident at the Eastern European Rift (or the Bear River Bridge)

A day before the Uncaring Sun Rose at Nicaea

Do some regret their contribution to the fall of the USSR  and the resulting global issues?

The Western culture does not like the words, ‘regret’ ‘responsibility’ ‘compassion’ In fact, almost all leaders in the world, and all the governments and political elites which survived one or more decades were totally Machiavellian in belief, if not thought.

So the powers that are do not regret either contributing to the fall of USSR or Iran or Libya or Iraq or Syria, or Ukraine, or Afghanistan or the deaths of millions and the waste of huge amounts of scarce resources while they achieved these targets, because they do not shoulder any responsibility. “It had to be done” “It was politically or economically expedient” We owe it to our forefathers,” “It was worth the sacrifice” (whose sacrifice?) and on and on and on with the rhetoric.

This is true for even the so called more civilized countries of the world and their governments. “What a pity! But there was nothing we could do. “They had it coming” “look at what they did to…………….………….in the past.”

People being who they are, the Powers, also and easily find indigenous populations in those regions who can be bought or conned, or taught or engineered to follow and contribute to the disastrous and short-sighted strategies and tactics and who will be happy to use all the logical fallacies available to justify their lack of intellect, knowledge and compassion.

Ahmet C. Celebiler

Iznik, Feb 26, 2022

THE RUSTED SEESAW

THE END OF BELIEF IN BALANCE 

New philosophy, sociology, Politics and psychology of  Power in the 21st Century

Politics creates vacuums to be filled in unexpected, unsuspected and unmanageable ways.

No two of these vacuums have similar dimensions. Even with similar dimensions, their volumes will not be same.

Filling a political or cultural vacuum is not a science. 

Filling a political vacuum in an ethical (as defined by different value systems) manner results in untreatable cognitive discrepancy .

FI - FO  does not operate in storing of ideas, values, attitudes in political vacuums.

The contents of political vacuums may not be friendly to each other, but all will interact and survive.

One does not need to go as far as Syria and Afghanistan. United States, UK, Ukraine, Russia  and France are recent examples.

Unfortunately neither antique nor modern history can come up with  reasonable  or even arguable  reasons for this state of affairs.

Ahmet C. Celebiler

February 14, 2022

GLOBAL DISSONANCE

 

"Postmodernist philosophers, in general, argue that truth is always contingent on historical and social context rather than being absolute and universal—and that truth is always partial and "at issue" rather than being complete and certain." Wikipedia

POST AND POSPOST MODERNISM

It seems today that al those posts and their anchors and buttresses were rotten and crumbling inside even before they were plagiarized.  But destroying is always thought to be easy, while replacing formerly imposing edifices not so simple. Yet, it may come to pass that one day there will be a reconstruction with many more posts.

These are just approaches to discussing “what”, “why” and “how”. They could have had some major benefits in addition to some architectural and literary works, if their proponents were not so destructive of commonly held views, beliefs, knowledge, thought and activities. Not enough was created to replace that which was destroyed.

Denying the authority of science and seemingly accepting and following nihilistic ideas eventually allowed the followers of post modernism to support those beliefs which were based on denying the reality of science and the benefits of the scientific method, leading to political problems, major power intervention on regional and national governance, as well as sterile definitions of well-being, joy, despair, entertainment, utility and ambition.

We have entered a disruptive and dystopic age of pre dissonance en route to new posts and moderns.

Ahmet Cafer Celebiler

January 9. 2021

IN SEARCH OF 21st CENTURY EXISTENTIALISM

 

Research Ideas on the Pataphysics of a Pandemic Stricken World

or

Life With Vaccines

Origins. growth and the mystique of pataphysics. An unperceived dominance in politics and a heretical religious behavior.

Existentialism in the Twenty first Century, An Unseen Intellectual Pandemic in Search of a New Philosophical Approach leading to Possible Vaccination.

Is the Human Brain capable of intellectually perceiving and functioning in view of current realities without remedial assistance?

The obliterated mind in a viral physical and emotional environment/context