Society

Purpose: The Main Tool of Manipulation

Receiving compliments is a good feeling known to each of us. It makes us feel worthy, providing us with a tangible experience with the abstract question of why we live. The more the compliment is directed towards what we personally think we are good at or want to be good at, the more satisfaction we...

The Importance of Culture in Statecraft

Culture, as defined in Devlet, is “a set of social interactions within an ethnic group”. While other definitions tend to focus on parts of those social interactions and, more often even, the results from those interactions, the devletist definition also encompasses behavioural patterns at the micro and macro levels. Rather than centralising culture around language,...

LAİKLİK VE İSLAMCILIK

Tutarsızlığın zararları genel olarak birçok olumsuz özelliklere göre daha az olmasına rağmen, aynı zamanda bir insanın kişiliğini değerlendirmek için önemli bir ölçü oluşturmaktadır. Bir insan ne kadar tutarsızsa, kişiliğini o derecede zayıf olarak değerlendiririz. Bir şeyi söyleyip tam tersini yapmak, başkalarında eleştirilen şeyi veya ona müşabih bir şey yapmak gibi özellikler bizi o insandan uzak...

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...

Emotions in Politics

Political science is a beautiful field of science. Although it does not always receive recognition from the broader public for being a highly complex and essential discipline, political science can be seen as the crossroads of many academic streams. While maths, biology, physics, sociology, economics, anthropology and many other scientific realms are viewed within their...

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...