Words have meanings that are attached to them and identified with them. So much so that sometimes it even takes the place of the original, which is out of context. The perception of the word replaces the fact.
The word tradition refers to what is included in the preserved entity, confirming the incoming-affix phrase. Therefore, tradition, contrary to popular belief, is not static, it is always renewed, like bricks loaded on a building.
But there is a difference in this refresh. The incoming attachment is positioned according to the entity and defined accordingly.
It does not damage the place where it is added, does not transform, does not alter, does not protrude. On the contrary, it becomes one of the transmission channels of values from generation to generation. Tradition; It can be described as yesterday and today coming together and moving towards tomorrow.
Our perceptions of tradition sometimes go against it. When tradition is mentioned, stasis comes to mind, only the past is remembered.
For example, when a traditionalist-innovative distinction is made in political parties, there is a disdain for "old-fashioned ones" in the definition of "traditionalists".
According to this understanding, traditionalists; They are people who resist changes in staff, discourse and method, who are stubborn to read politics with the realities of the old, and follow old methods.
“Innovators”, on the other hand, are defined as those who know the necessities of the age and are able to stay open to change and keep up.
Innovators are portrayed as “vote hunters” who realize that since society is not static, political structures should not be stable either.
Adapting to the dominant currents that have become a trend in international politics is considered as the password of innovative cadres.
In fact, this reflects an interesting dilemma.
Rather, the "innovative parties" that accuse traditionalist structures of being populist often become real populists by being in the position of short-term "vote hunters".
It is possible to find examples of these in political experiences.
If you remember the foggy weather of February 28 and the "traditional-innovative" divisions created in the National Vision movement afterwards, you will see that the photograph is depicted exactly like this.
In the traditional part of the photo; There is the image of Erbakan and his friends who do not want to hand over their seat to young people like Erdoğan, although they have a staff that will take the party and carry it to power alone.
In the innovative part, on the contrary, there are young people who are open to the outside world, who can appeal to all segments, and who can read the priorities and desires of the society.
In short, the kind of information that will serve the goal that those who staged this game want to achieve has been expertly created by inverting the facts.
The distinction experienced in 2010 is actually an unnamed traditionalist-innovative split. In this photograph, too, old-fashioned people, including the leader, are seated in the dock, who, while everything is starting to go well, suddenly sacrificed the party to internal conflict, slowing the party's pace, with the warning of basic principles.
It is the traditionalists who are seen as guilty and unjust, uncompromising. Those who try to fight against all obstacles and represent hope are the innovative ones.
Of course, these processes are not valid only in the National Vision parties. In many political parties, social/social movements, traditionalist-innovative separation is encountered in the structure.
Moreover, the fact that the traditionalist-innovative division has begun to be expressed in political parties is a concrete indicator of the efforts to alter or transform those structures.
However, the place that innovative minds, who are eager to cut off their contact with their founding staff and principles, will reach is only "de-tradition", as Göle puts it.
The "non-traditional" who cannot establish the connection between yesterday and today, turn into "everyday people" who cannot go beyond staying in the middle and acting as extras in the established game.
Ingenuity; It is about being up-to-date by adhering to the strong accumulation and principles of the tradition.