Simply Diary

Turkey has only one english speaking newspaper from so called non-fundamentalist capital. But even this newspaper is not open-minded. And I must say, I am shocked how far right they are...
There is a columnist, obviously from the fundamentalist milieu, trying to be an intellectual in the western sense of the word, and at the same time  a turkish petite bourgeoise fundamentalist. He has the uneducated heart of an anatolian Atatürk opponent with a late modernized and educated mind. Late modernization has always something to do with USA. As the French was no more the leading country in the hegemony of the West. So the Americans brought their own model of modernization for these late modernized, non-western people. This was a success story as these late-modernized people were suffering from the dominance of the  earl-modernized elite of their own country. (No need to say that early-modernization has always something to do with Europe.) They had some kind of inferiority complex which they have tried to overcome with the new concepts that they have borrowed from the relatively 'new' hegemony of the West.
But they didn t get these concepts right, as they have only tried to express their uneducated heart in an educated mind. The word  'secular' is not an adjective that you can make a superlative out of it...But if you have emotional stress by that word and if you do not really understand the word, then you try to make something else out of this word. For these people, I mean the anatolian Atatürk opponents,  'secular' means something like  'without religion'. But this is not the real meaning of the word, this is how this special milieu tries to understand  'the world' from a very small minded window...
Please read the article to understand what I mean with this link below:
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=imagine-there-is-no-religion-2010-12-17
To say Freud was an ultra-secularist, is completely nonsense. Freud had nothing to do with this kind of political theory. 'Secular' is a political term to indicate a differentiation process of the West that the Middle East has not gone through yet, in a very broad sense of the term. You can borrow the words, the terms, the thoughts but you can t borrow history!!!!! You can t borrow historical, complex phenomena...You can t borrow processes...
There is a wonderful sentence of Freud regarding the nature of writing and thinking...We do not have the superior position of writing and thinking in the reality in most of the times...As the nature of thought is always quicker than the matter...But life has something to do with the matter:-)
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There can t be a word like  'Kemalist'. This was also a western invention, probably for the simply reason of easier pronunciation... 'Kemal' is a arabic word  and 'ism' is coming from old greek, meaning that this person was a thinker...But Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881-1938) was not a thinker. He was a politician, a soldier but not a philosopher. He doesn t  'invent'  'secularism' as an evil coming over the poor and innocent muslims of Anatolia:-))) This is so funny, that someone can  'think' like this!!! But this is how they feel actually... They feel like this! They can t think actually.:-))
They felt themselves ignored and are still trying to take revenge over so many time...So reactionary!!!!
So regressiv in reality by trying to be progressiv in the article.:-)))