content tagged with In Good Times and Bad: Living Together

A notable aspect of friendship is its variety. Practices such as work friendship, school friendship, political friendship take place and find meaning in a certain social context.

My main starting point is to hold on to living together with animals. Because how we treat animals reflects what kind of a society we are.

While no lie is innocent, lies told by journalists are even more dangerous since they turn into "lies that shape the society". Because this undermines living together. This obstructs the establishment of a just and equal society. What is the duty of a journalist if not to work for a better world?

Despite the hazy fascism we live in, the struggle for reckoning with the past is not unclaimed, it has a strong political accumulation. We have to force all the cliques speaking from within the state by relying on this political accumulation to do more and to speak more concretely.

Afghan doctor Zeynep C. says "We are only breathing in Turkey. We are striving to feed ourselves, but life is not something like this. We are not living. We are struggling to survive. I cannot send my children to school. My children are not happy. Deep down sadness is consuming me."

As creativity studies show, creativity is not something under the monopoly of only individuals with a special talent, it is a capability present in all people and is a result of humanity's collective culture.

Coming side by side, working hard together, acting with solidarity, organizing, developing a struggle culture are indispensable for downgrading hatred and eliminating its raison d'être.

The extreme right does not actually represent extremism at all; it represents the continuity of the right. Liberal ideology which monopolizes "human nature" by considering it competitive, opportunist, etc., paints also what is cultural into its own color, and commands us to fear the collective.