Commentary

The Truth and Consumption

Our minds can do a lot of wonderful things. Among them is treating existential questions through the exploration of logical chains. It is not the primary aim to find answers to those questions immediately, but rather solidly identifying the cognitive paths that can lead us there, as well as establishing patterns of thought that can...

Please, Do Not Read This

Our minds are truly astonishing. Knowledge and ignorance, good and bad, are both physically and normatively so close to one another and intertwined that telling them apart is difficult. Yet, they are conceptually so far away from each other that it is baffling how we can mix them up. We ask about the sense of...

White Lives Matter

Within most societies, white people are often seen as second-class people. Since ancient times, the core territories of the white community, which is Western Europe, have always been viewed as underdeveloped and barbarian. While other civilisations rose, vanished and rose again, the White world remained stagnant. It was not until around 5500 BC that Anatolian...

The Most Dangerous Side of Racism

Racism can be described as discriminatory behaviour towards people based on their ethnicity. Though it existed for a long time as a behavioural trait, the concept itself is not as old as one might think, dating back roughly 300 years. Leaving the etymological discussion aside, the concept’s prominence as an influential part of popular discourse...

How Islam Destroyed Turkey

The Turks are one of the oldest civilisations that have survived to this day. It is also one of the bigger civilisations in human history, having ruled over three continent for hundreds of years, during the times of the Ottoman Empire. At times, the Turkish rule was bloody and ruthless, but for a long time...

Are You Ready for the Age of Information?

Mounting Problems In an attempt to make sense of developments of our species, we commonly separate certain periods by categorising them under an umbrella term, such as Bronze Age, Middle Ages, Renaissance and so on. It is safe to say that with the rise of computation and the emergence of the internet, we have already...