The era of collective rights, efforts, and solutions

''Right'' is a beautiful term. It rolls off the tongue. Those who speak of rights express their thoughts with a strange sense of confidence. However, the ''call for rights'' often echoes in the air and remains ineffective. 

This is the case for most human rights and social rights. 

Yet, in the modern era, the call for rights has an address: the State. 

If we are talking about the right to life, the right to healthy living, or the right to a healthy environment, we must essentially emphasize the state's obligation to ensure life, ensure healthy living, and establish a healthy environment. 

The liberal-democratic paradigm was built after the Second World War. Human rights became both a flag and a stick in the hands of the Western bloc. It wielded this stick against the ''authoritarian'' states it did not approve of. 

This paradigm began to collapse, especially as of 2008. Finally, it has now collapsed. Since the West cannot openly deny its own principles and accumulation, it has begun to abandon these principles by transferring political power to administrations that are considered an ''anomaly'' by Westerners. 

Now, the West is surrendering these principles to a caricature of the ''left'' merely at the level of discourse, while leaving right-wing politicians who have ''declared war on traditions'' free. 

Especially with the pandemic, an understanding that necessitates collective solutions outside the liberal-democratic paradigm has regained importance. In disasters, when public health, housing, and production are at stake, it has been seen that collective rights and efforts are far more important than individual rights. 

Humanity is on the eve of facing problems that will require these collective solutions, rights, and efforts. Earthquakes, pandemics, climate crises, intense migration movements... All of these are problems too large to be overcome with individual rights and individual responsibilities. 

We have entered a period where the state must take on roles far beyond being an ''arbiter,'' a ''certifying authority,'' or a ''regulator.'' Here, instead of calls into the air, organized crowds will need to convey their demands—which prioritize the public interest and call for duty—to the state. 

For the establishment of the right to live, find shelter, and exist in a healthy way within a healthy environment, an understanding that emphasizes the state's obligation in these areas, and states that can fulfill this obligation, will rise. States that cannot or do not fulfill this obligation will be considered ''failed'' states in this era. This means that states capable of prioritizing these obligations and fulfilling them will be able to be effective over these failed states by mobilizing their peoples as well. This opens the door to a new possibility of power in the international arena.