Lebanese writer Amin Maalouf gave an interview to Kursat Oguz from Haberturk channel. I think it is useful to find, read and watch. In this important interview, Maalouf further clarifies some of the ideas he expressed in his book 'The Setting of Civilizations.' The fact that he comes from a family belonging to the Middle East geography, that his father carries an Ottoman identity card, that he is an Arab, and that he can blend all of these with his life in the West makes it even more meaningful.
Maalouf likens the world to the Titanic. He also used Titanic in his book Samarkand through Omar Hayyam. He points out that most of the passengers on the ship, where more than five thousand people died in 1912, are from the Near East, Lebanon, which is also his home country. The current world order, on the other hand, is arrogant, we are on a ship without a captain.
He says the world is sinking, but it is not the end and the end. He states that life continues at sunset. But with all this, the establishment of a new world is inevitable. He claims that the world is located at a point between the sunset and a new exit. In addition, Maalouf cannot provide a road map of what the new world will look like. We just have ideas, he says, and it's a process that emphasizes that the codes of the new era will emerge over time. He says that the conditions we are in can be seen as an advantage and curse for this generation.
In fact, all of Maalouf's statements are nothing but a different view of the world's dilemmas. Unfortunately, the world is drifting into deeper crises day by day. Maalouf answers to the question whether the managers are responsible for this, after saying no, the managers did not come from another planet. He describes what he describes as the kah overwhelming contradiction of the century or, although humanity has more powerful instruments than in previous times, yet it is far from solving problems.
As you know, the foundations of the current world order were laid in Yalta in 1945 after World War II. The period until 1991 when the Soviet Union withdrew from the stage of history was described as cold war. America won the war. However, the world did not become safer. Even the security concern made the ceiling around the world.
The Western world was exploiting countries by direct occupation yesterday. Today, they continue their exploitation activities with their forces depending on their technological and economic superiority. They are very powerful, exploiting, but having difficulty in maintaining their power as before. Their fears follow them like a shadow. They seem to have extinction syndrome. They think that they will achieve more and more satisfaction with their ambitions that do not know what is saturated. When they realize that this is not possible, they climax harshness.
While the migration due to oppression, violence, cruelty, massacre, deaths, conflicts and civil wars has increased, the racist imperialists who have adopted exploitation as a basic principle are very afraid that the negativities will come and knock on their doors.
As a result, the world is going through a period of unpredictability. Drifting into a dead end. The current international system suffocates humanity. The end of this trend is to lose altogether. It is to go all the way to the abyss. In this way, Amin Maalouf says that humanity is between the two worlds, both as a writer who knows the east and who has mastered the codes of thought of the west. So between finish and new start.
As we have stated before, when comparing civilizations, "The Western lost its soul, East lost its mind." Humanity's emergence from this vortex will be with the hands of societies that cleanse their souls from slavery, and at the same time put their minds in full, and in any case and condition, hold and remove justice.