The courage to normalize: Escaping the dystopia
Lawyer Onur Şahin writes for 12punto. "When the epidemic of worship and hatred, which symbiotically feed each other, begins to destroy not only reasonable individuals but also the camps of madness, the infection of crime sooner or later evolves into terror, and terror into anarchy."
12punto
In a country, if the person most adored by the masses and the person most intensely hated by the masses is the same individual, this is a very dangerous situation.
Both pathological allegiance to any living person or governing authority and pathological anger detach those who fall prey to these emotions from reality. Such a country turns into a dystopia. And the construction of this dystopia has never been possible due to a single person, a single structure, or a single tradition alone.
Because, when those who position a person—whom some consider a 'chaotic villain' and others a 'superhero'—at the center of their extreme positive or extreme negative emotions lose the ability to question cause and effect, and create a collective majority of madness, the sense of direction is lost for the entire society. Even for the most equipped components of both poles that cause this aimlessness, sociological, political, cultural, historical, scientific, and common-sense analyses become impossible.
And in a society composed of those who have lost the ability to think reasonably, the poor, remaining minority of 'normal' people in that society cannot even breathe between the blind hatred of the mad and the worship of other madmen...
Moreover, when the epidemic of worship and hatred, which symbiotically feed each other, begins to destroy not only reasonable individuals but also the camps of madness, the infection of crime sooner or later evolves into terror, and terror into anarchy.
Damn those who, despite seeing the situation, do not resist the comfort of pretending to be mad, and damn those who feed the loss of reason of the mediocre for their own interests.
If a country is losing its consciousness under such conditions, it must be understood by everyone that praise, ambition, and psychological slaughter will no longer serve any purpose.
In such dystopias, a strategy of normalization must be created with courage. Both for those who are not actually satisfied with the situation but are forced into it and continue to violently insist on their bankrupt methods... And for those methodless ones who, while unable to produce solutions to any problem, know nothing but to blame those who do not think like them and hope for salvation from invalid foundations...