Melis Menent

Mail - Got - You

Words… They shape themselves and get shaped by their environments. They took these two and made something new out of them. How would the people change? How would the words do it? It does not happen on its own. It happens with a lot of encouragement, with understanding. Psychology is harmful, while it serves the purpose of its exact opposite. Lack of health. 

“State of global counter-terrorism measures:

10. The misuse of counter-terrorism measures not only violates the rights of suspected terrorists but can also incidentally or deliberately jeopardize the freedoms of the innocent“

Human Rights Council

The meaning of words has changed: closed and open. These two words mean so much more than the other words. It is about how society organises itself. It is about the degrees within the false communities which shape the words.

They use women against other women. They calm people down. A sudden emotional release of empathy. And then sex sales…

How did it happen that so many women signed up for this? It did not happen only due to the personalities of the women involved: the circumstances have been against women for a very long time. We could not work, we could not prosper, we could not walk, we could not eat. All of these activities have been social, with strong male-dominant repercussions.

What happened to the people who get surveilled? Why the surveillance? And what does it mean? It can be time for the author to have another look at the classical work by Foucault, on Surveillance and Punishment. It is right there in the name, after all. Why would I look for something different? Something that I would have to start all over, again? It is easy to let go of a capital, of a cultural kind. It is also easy to repeat, easy to pretend. To want the same thing, to believe that everything in the world will be the same if you just have that thing which this other person has. This is the downside of visibility, of transparency, of choosing to remain public. Private was not there to harm the public, neither should the public have mastered the private. A simple relationship of bribery which worked very well for the business of the developing world. Now, it does not. Not in the emotional world of all the men and women who are victims of the relationship: of risk and security.

There are so many men and women within the organisation. Within the thing which really is harmful for the mind. For the health of the individual. They merely protect the groups and not the individuals which constitute these groups. The people don’t mean anything to them but they know how to understand what these individuals like, together, how they get together, what they talk about and especially what they want. They know the wants so well. And they offer them the ‘wants’. In many ways. As there are limited things which one can imagine, and way too many cars for a small militaristic society, it is not complicated for the invisible hand to manage.

It manages, without having to ‘go by’. It manages with the exceptions it creates to the law, with the lies it tells about what the law is and what a judicial mechanism can do. The Leviathan takes you in, tells you lies, teaches you how to behave, what the good things are. But none of it is true. You are just left, alone, on your own. They force you into the things which they want. Which they like. Which they can control. It’s all about the control. They want to sell you things and they want to manage your time. If you are an opponent, they want to cut your time down. Why should you not be harmed with participation from prominent internationally known terrorist organisations like Hezbollah? At the same time, lack of education can be easily used: for ethically looking, married women to show themselves. To pretend to be powerful, to abuse all forms of power. And to pretend.

Pretensions made the Turkish Cypriot society. It’s the pretensions which help Nazism to turn its swastika, in different languages. It’s far from being a German phenomenon. But it is with German studies that we can understand more of it. It is also with German studies that we can both understand the world in which we live and move into a better one. But in order to imagine, one needs to accept that we live with a disease. That there are crimes against humanity carried out by the governments in the middle of the West, that the articles discussed online by the victims have a lot of truth about them… that there is such a thing as ‘targeting’, that the ‘invisible hand’ does know how to put the civilian women into a difficult position, and that it is joyful for them to enjoy the innocence of their victims. When you trust in the good in the others, they know how to abuse it. Because they are many and they get along. And habit stops you from seeing the whole truth. You can’t. It’s a difficult specialism requiring patience and accuracy. It is, at the same time, against the death spread by the nameless thing.

Mail- Got- You

Ever since the declaration of the republic, the simple idea of hearing something fell into the hands of a terrorist group. Terrorism started shaping anything you could learn, anything that remained within the strict confines of your own family. Where you had your Mom, Dad and relatives together, when you could talk and share, perspectives of the world, love, emotion, food, all of that, all the good things (and some bad too, I suppose) belonged to you. They remained real,. They remained to be yours… but all those other things, things which you could not experience, got filtered and reached you after a process. A process which entailed a careful evaluation of what can and can’t be thought by the large sections of the society. 

This is what information is, this is what the news are. The news are there to help us understand the small things… only the things which change, which kept changing for a while, within a short time period. But that period of time turned into another only time we had. The only time we are allowed to learn, to question. You cannot ‘question’ on the north of Cyprus. You cannot want to learn more, neither can you choose to move to the future with an appropriate evaluation: an evaluation of where we are, what we do, how it impacts the others and what do the other people do… we cannot know anything about the economy, nothing about narcotics, nothing about the past…

The ‘past’ means a burden: a may of shaping the present while pretending that the only truth that one can hold is in the narration. The narratives gripped us, they got our attention and they taught us: they told us who we are. Still, they tell us, where we come from, what happened in our countries and shape our futures. THE PAST IS PRESENT. And we live in it. This is the perennial MAGIC of Nazism. It’s here. But we are lacking the name for it.