The change that took place in our understanding as a society has come to such a point that the movement and practices that a person has to obey naturally have become the exception. I’d like to clarify what I mean without extending the subject. In the statements made on the occasion of the election campaign, candidates generally say that they will be the mayor of everyone, they will treat everyone equally; they feel compelled to say so. However, whoever will be elected, he/she will not only the mayor of the ones who voted for him/her but also of the others who didn’t vote for them. This is what should be. If we look from the point of view of general elections, for example, after a presidential election campaign, no matter how many candidates there are, one will be elected and will be the president of the country, and come to the point of representing the whole country. As such, the elected President become the President of those both who didn’t vote and who vote for him/her. If he/she has a different attitude with practice and words, he/she should know that he isn’t acting in accordance with his office.
Unfortunately, because the legislation and the practices often don’t overlap, all candidates have to say that they are the mayor of everyone to get votes from voters. However, the elected mayor, regardless of which party’s member he/she is, he/she has to act equally to everyone and every direction in that region. When he/she exhibits a contrary attitude, this means that he/she has both committed a legal offense and hasn’t followed the moral rules. So, why do the candidates have to say so? Because when the election is over, the number of those who act contrary to what they said in our country increase and that caused to promising to act equally. The matters reached such a different dimension, there are such wrong meanings ascribed to concepts that good people are only found by searching and people who come to the forefront with their goodness are shown with finger. However, an honorable person should be a good person. Evil should be the exception. If we look at the issue from this point of view, it’s necessary to focus on the matter if the basis of an election campaign is composed of saying that bribes will not be taken and the municipality's money will not go to friendly groups. Because when a mayor is elected, of course, he/she shouldn’t take bribes and he/she should give service with the municipality revenue until the last cent. However, the contrary of these are so much applied, the candidates have to say that the citizens will be in the forefront. Shortly, when evil things increase, good things are shown by finger.
My aim isn’t to criticize or praise the slogans in the election campaign. My aim is to show how the core of the concepts being emptied and how different meanings ascribed to them. If one person between hundreds of working people is praised for his/her honesty, this means that staying honest became the exception in society. Similarly, if one person between hundreds of people is in the forefront for being reliable and trustworthy, this means that the understanding that every human should be so is already forgotten and as a result, honest people are brought to the forefront. Of course, if honesty still is in demand… Because the point we arrived at, people praised for how much they earn. If the understanding of gain, strike it rich but it doesn’t matter how you do become the validity aspect, this means that all value judgments should reviewed.
The explanation of how it came to this point may be long, but in short, it wouldn’t be wrong to say that our concepts and value judgments have become meaningless, and the concepts are no longer increased in value as before. It means that we aren’t our self anymore for the sake of resembling to West and we failed in being Western. In this respect, we have to turn to ourselves. Because being in the middle means being nothing.