Muhammed Maruf: "The age to live as free people"

Muhammed Maruf: "The age to live as free people"
Date: 27.5.2022 13:00

Milli Gazete columnist Muhammed Maruf writes on current era. Here is the full article.

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Although humanity has made great progress in the field of science and technology in the current era, it has not reached a point different from other periods of exploitation in history in terms of the position of man in the system. People can basically be divided into two groups, the dominant exploiting minority and the exploited masses forming the majority. Although the dominant mass that exploits is a small minority and the exploited are the overwhelming majority, one of the most important reasons why the exploitation continues uninterrupted is the existence of the masses in the exploited majority who are deprived of the ability to question the system due to their partial comfort. Aside from questioning the system that actually exploits them with the effect of the comfort they experience, the said masses function as the basic element that serves the continuity of the system. However, since the system is based on exploitation, there is often a victimization and exploitation in the background of the comfort experienced. For example, people who experience the comfort of getting a pizza to their destination hot in 30 minutes never think about the working hours of the couriers who deliver that pizza to them and the problems they have to deliver the pizzas. However, as it is often brought to the agenda, there are many different grievances, including loss of life, in order for these orders to arrive. Moreover, this example is the smallest and the easiest one that comes to mind. Because exploiters do not impose any meaning other than making the employee a performance subject.
 
There are two dimensions to consider the background of the comfort experienced in this regard. The first is the human dimension. It is a human necessity for a person to think and question the background of the opportunities provided to him. The human point of view requires rejecting a comfort that rises on the backs of others. The second is the systemic dimension, that the existing system of exploitation can only be eliminated with an understanding that questions the comfort experienced by rising on the backs of others and struggles to eliminate the abuses behind the comfort. Otherwise, as we have stated above, we will actively or passively contribute to the continuation of the system in the works that we do not question and that we do with higher earnings and greater reputation. The fact that we earn high incomes or do jobs with a relatively high reputation does not prevent us from being voluntary slaves exploited by the system. For the continuity of such a life, the vast masses, who are constantly kept under control by being guided by the owners of the system to think and live as they wish, are not controlled by the iron chains around their necks, but by shackles that take their will. The shackles in question are the political, moral, social, etc. of the masses. It has a function that determines and constantly directs all preferences in the fields. For this reason, slaves who were controlled by force in the past with iron chains were more free than those who voluntarily served the system by controlling their will.
 
The above is true for individuals as well as societies. The situation is the same for Western countries and societies, which are set as an example in many issues today, regulate their economic and social structures with normative laws and rules, and live in relatively high prosperity. The high level of welfare that these countries and societies experience in their own countries compared to other societies and the relative freedom they provide within themselves do not show that they actually have a real freedom when we look at the background of the work. Because, many studies and data reveal that the most exploited societies are Western societies, especially the USA. The relative level of freedom and welfare set forth in the said countries acts as a mask to cover the exploitation they are exposed to. The fact that they experience a higher level of comfort compared to other societies prevents them from understanding and questioning the existing exploitation order, and ensures that societies serve the system as voluntary slaves and ensure the continuity of the system. Only by questioning the blood, oppression and tears behind their prosperity, by having an awareness of the grievances and oppressions experienced outside their own countries, can these societies set out to lead to real freedom. It is not possible for a society that has not reached this awareness to be a reference and model society for us. This is the basic issue that those who show Western societies, which are more advanced than us in every aspect, as an example, do not understand...

YEREL HABERLER

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