I find it amazing how some people act.
Many days I have opened up this LJ prompt, and many days it has been left empty.
I have recently started reading again, which excites me because I wish to become a writer in the future and this is good for inspiration. The funny thing about that is while everyone and their brother *hint: mine for example* wants to become a writer despite the fact that people really don't read anymore.
Early this month there were the 2007 General Representative Elections. The Turkish government works like this: People elect representatives, Representatives elect president. Sort of similar to the Electorate College system, but not really.
Most of the intelligent "Elite" in Turkey thought or said that one party was going to win, but when they walked into the booth they shot the other way. And thus Justice and Development Party(AKP) has won. While this isn't necessarily bad, but they won by a land slide. A whopping 48% which means that a third of the country(we only have 40mill eligible electors out of 70mill people) chose AKP, with only a 10% of them actually publicly saying they would.
Now comes the time to do a self-evaluation. Not for me, but for the cultural "elite". Despite my best wishes, they came to power, deep down inside, though, I knew they would. The same way I knew Bush would win twice. Don't ask how, I don't know.
I went to buy a book on The Armenian Controversy, The Cyprus problem, and an expose on the AKP. The bookstore clerk gave me weird looks because the name of the Cyprus book was "An island(Cyprus), A case(Turks are right, Greeks are determined), A war(Cyprus Peace Movement)" And she asked "A 'case', huh?" she slid it over to look at the book on AKP, "Expose?" she said sarcastically. Anyone who knows me knows that I dont take lightly to teasing of this kind. I asked her if she had any problem with a student doing research. She said that it was just odd that anyone would be looking at these now, as if anyone has say in any of this stuff anymore. I told her to remember my name, and that it will all soon change.
Why doesn't anybody believe in themselves anymore? Why doesn't anybody believe in the human potential? That we can rise out of our existance into greatness? Nobody is born with a cult of personality, that sort of status is made.
In my travels in Anatolia earlier this month, I saw a young lady that worked as a bartender in Datça. She says she born and grew in this village that lives in the Turkish valley that leads to a historical site. Just by looking at her though, you could not tell she was from there. I asked her if she had any aspirations to leave and she said that she had job opportunities in Marmaris, a nearby highly populated vacation city.
That's it?
That is all the aspirations you have? You don't want to leave this village existance and travel? No, she doesn't. She's happy how she is and the outside world is scary. I hate to say it, but it is. Without education, it really is scary. ,
I don't remember where I was going with that. I guess all I can say is, stay in school kids....
I have recently started reading again, which excites me because I wish to become a writer in the future and this is good for inspiration. The funny thing about that is while everyone and their brother *hint: mine for example* wants to become a writer despite the fact that people really don't read anymore.
Early this month there were the 2007 General Representative Elections. The Turkish government works like this: People elect representatives, Representatives elect president. Sort of similar to the Electorate College system, but not really.
Most of the intelligent "Elite" in Turkey thought or said that one party was going to win, but when they walked into the booth they shot the other way. And thus Justice and Development Party(AKP) has won. While this isn't necessarily bad, but they won by a land slide. A whopping 48% which means that a third of the country(we only have 40mill eligible electors out of 70mill people) chose AKP, with only a 10% of them actually publicly saying they would.
Now comes the time to do a self-evaluation. Not for me, but for the cultural "elite". Despite my best wishes, they came to power, deep down inside, though, I knew they would. The same way I knew Bush would win twice. Don't ask how, I don't know.
I went to buy a book on The Armenian Controversy, The Cyprus problem, and an expose on the AKP. The bookstore clerk gave me weird looks because the name of the Cyprus book was "An island(Cyprus), A case(Turks are right, Greeks are determined), A war(Cyprus Peace Movement)" And she asked "A 'case', huh?" she slid it over to look at the book on AKP, "Expose?" she said sarcastically. Anyone who knows me knows that I dont take lightly to teasing of this kind. I asked her if she had any problem with a student doing research. She said that it was just odd that anyone would be looking at these now, as if anyone has say in any of this stuff anymore. I told her to remember my name, and that it will all soon change.
Why doesn't anybody believe in themselves anymore? Why doesn't anybody believe in the human potential? That we can rise out of our existance into greatness? Nobody is born with a cult of personality, that sort of status is made.
In my travels in Anatolia earlier this month, I saw a young lady that worked as a bartender in Datça. She says she born and grew in this village that lives in the Turkish valley that leads to a historical site. Just by looking at her though, you could not tell she was from there. I asked her if she had any aspirations to leave and she said that she had job opportunities in Marmaris, a nearby highly populated vacation city.
That's it?
That is all the aspirations you have? You don't want to leave this village existance and travel? No, she doesn't. She's happy how she is and the outside world is scary. I hate to say it, but it is. Without education, it really is scary. ,
I don't remember where I was going with that. I guess all I can say is, stay in school kids....