Post by account_disabled on Mar 9, 2024 5:38:14 GMT 2
I was reading an interview of Orhan Pamuk some time ago in the western media. "I feel sorry for my country," he said. Democracy is dying, so is freedom of speech, while young people hang out in cafes." Orhan Pamuk is one of the greatest living writers in the world today. But he is not only a great writer. Above all, he is an extraordinary humanist and intellectual "par excellence". Sometime in 2005, he was the first Turk who dared to speak about the Turkish genocide in Armenia. They threatened him with his life, took away his titles and offices, but he did not back down. It didn't back down then, and it doesn't back down even today before Erdogan's authoritarianism.
Because this is the Cambodia Telegram Number Data intellectual. Always in opposition to power, stupidity, evil, even conventional when it is wrong. Therefore, intellectuals are the moral authority of societies. When societies go crazy and take the wrong direction, they are always there. Reading Pamuk's interview, I thought how lucky Turkey is to have such a figure and how unlucky we are, that intellectuals hardly want to do it. Read also: Accusations of drug trafficking, the American court declares the former president of Honduras guilty Gender pay gap / Only one country in Europe pays women more than men If there is a term in Albanian today that has been inflated, massacred, perverted, and even raped, it is the term intellectual.
We've worn it to anyone. Even to funny figures, scumbags, hypocrites, sellouts. It is enough to have a degree or appear on television once. But you don't become an intellectual from a degree. You don't even become a professor, painter, artist, musician. Not even when you're a great world-famous writer. You are intellectual when you protect the public interest. When you challenge wrong, even when it is supported by the majority. This is the intellectual. Always rebel against power and evil. On the contrary, you are just a small person and a salaryman in the disgusting borders of power. No matter how good you are at your profession. Even when you are world famous.
Because this is the Cambodia Telegram Number Data intellectual. Always in opposition to power, stupidity, evil, even conventional when it is wrong. Therefore, intellectuals are the moral authority of societies. When societies go crazy and take the wrong direction, they are always there. Reading Pamuk's interview, I thought how lucky Turkey is to have such a figure and how unlucky we are, that intellectuals hardly want to do it. Read also: Accusations of drug trafficking, the American court declares the former president of Honduras guilty Gender pay gap / Only one country in Europe pays women more than men If there is a term in Albanian today that has been inflated, massacred, perverted, and even raped, it is the term intellectual.
We've worn it to anyone. Even to funny figures, scumbags, hypocrites, sellouts. It is enough to have a degree or appear on television once. But you don't become an intellectual from a degree. You don't even become a professor, painter, artist, musician. Not even when you're a great world-famous writer. You are intellectual when you protect the public interest. When you challenge wrong, even when it is supported by the majority. This is the intellectual. Always rebel against power and evil. On the contrary, you are just a small person and a salaryman in the disgusting borders of power. No matter how good you are at your profession. Even when you are world famous.