Political systems and philosophies, school of thoughts and governments… You can choose a way to rule your country from the endless palette of ideologies, like creating an exploitative ”liberal” state in a newfound land or a monarchy for your next generations to feed on OR you can create a democratic repubclic in the ashes of a dying monarchy. Atatürk tried to achieve the example and it worked, well, for a time period. You can give a 3 year-old-a quantum computer but little fella will just puke on it after playing with its components first and when you give a ”subjected” society its freedom they will create a dumpster fire out of it. Tonight I will try to explain how can a democracy fail itself, and how a great leader’s dream gets betrayed by his citizens.

Democracy literally translates from Ancient Greek to “rule of the people” so if I need to find why a system that relies on its people has failed, I should look into its people. For starters, I will give you some examples from modern-day Turkey, from my perspective. Modern-day Anatolians will kill their own kin for a piece of barren soil, will value a rabid street dog over your child, will stab you in the back for silver coins and right after that, they will talk about how virtuous their life is. Freeking two-faced bastards behaving solely instinctively yet have the guts to act like living in an ivory tower. If you give a society like this the power of choosing its ruler guess what happens… Go on, guess. IT WILL REFLECT ITSELF TO THE RULING CLASS. Right? Right. So the next question should be can you create a utopia by using a rotten society.

Here is a capitalistic example of that, the main character of this story is the CEO of a chocolate brand. One day a customer made a complaint about a moldy chocolate that she bought and the CEO replied commanding her to check for the moisture of her house, then threatened her with legal action of her defamation. Great marketing strategy to destroy your brand and it worked the way intended, the brand has lost its value overnight. So how did the CEO get her position, you can’t be a CEO of a private business by behaving unhinged. The answer is… by marrying a rich, old guy. I am not joking, that’s the whole story. The rich behaves solely instinctively and gives his ”lady” a firm, and the ”lady” behaves solely by instinctive and starts driveling on social media. Even a company is not safe from the incompetence of its owners and when you realise there is room for such sins even in the church of capitalism, you also realise there is no sacred place left. I want to write about the whole jumped-up uncultured swines, but maybe another day. Even the many that belong to the upper class of this society have no manners, I know because I lived with them.

Now let’s take the socialist way and give our example about living in a bureaucratic nightmare. If you visit a government office in Turkey that would be a sufficient example. I wonder what kind of torment it will become under a socialist regime… I would love to talk about how corrupted the whole system is but I am currently living here so… I will ask you to let your imagination run wild.

At the start of this year, a street interview got its 5-minute fame on the social media. An academician was talking about the ”social decay” in Turkey, people saw the video and started talking about it. They agreed with the academician, they accepted the fact there is a decay but they forgot to look into the mirror. If everybody is so perfect then who is taking part in the decay? Maradona? Emperor Meiji? Rasputin? No, it was the listeners of that interview. The same people that will cut into lines, throw their trash into parks and spit to the ideals of their founder. The same people rule the companies, get hired by the government, be your friends and call you a show-off when you don’t throw your thrash to the public areas. (The last part happened to me while in university, so-called upper-class)

In conclusion, there is no way to save a leg with gangrene and there is no way to save a rotten society by changing its government or ideology. You can paint it with your skin color, put a flower tattoo on it, and pave it with gold BUT you can’t save the leg. You can try to fight with the corruption in the beginning but not in its final form. That is why social conflicts in Turkey won’t end, not because of the economic problems but because of the people themselves.

Here is the interview I talked about