Observe Them As Far As Your Intellect Understands Them

The groups of man exist in different classes
With different ranks order came into being
Without ranks whatever exists falls in ruins
The ignoramus cannot take the place of the scholar
Water cannot fulfill the task of fire
Earth cannot do the wind's job
Gold cannot do iron's work
Sugar cannot produce salty food
The foot cannot take care of the hand's issues
The pen cannot take the sword's place
The slave cannot do the lord's work
Kings do not know the state of the flock
Thus is the order of the parts of the world:
Observe them as far as your intellect understands them...

Divan Şairi Nebi (1642-1712)'nin 7 yaşındaki oğlu için şiiri
Nabi (a "Divan" Poet, 1642-1712)'s poet for his 7-year old son

Not: Türkçesi elimde bulunmuyor şiirin. İngilizcesi ile idareten artık..

Alıntı "An Ottoman Mentality: The World of Evliya Çelebi" adlı Robert Dankoff eserindendir. 

The Most Dangerous Bar to the Liberties / Özgürlüğün Önünde En Büyük Tehlike

"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered".- Thomas Jefferson, 1802


"Bankacılık kurumlarının özgürlüklerimize karşı düzenli ordulardan daha tehlikeli olduğuna inanıyorum. Eğer Amerikalılar bir zaman özel bankaların kendi paralarının basılmasını kontrol etmesine, önce enflasyon, daha sonra deflasyonla izin verirse; bankaların etrafında büyüyen banka ve şirketler insanları çocukları atalarınca fethedilmiş kıta üzerinde evsiz olarak uyanana kadar tüm mülkiyetten yoksun bırakacaklar." Thomas Jefferson, 1802

Romance

"He's incredible!!He's Andy Capp!!"

Özlediğimiz Ağlama Duvarımıza

"Now that he is safely dead
Let us praise him
Build monuments to his glory
Sing hosannas to his name.
Dead men make
Such convenient heroes: they
Cannot rise
To challenge the images
We would fashion from their lives.
And besides,
It is easier to build monuments
Than to make a better world."

/

"Madem ki öldü salimen
Bırakın yüceltelim onu
Anıtlar inşa edelim görkemine
Adına rahmet okuyalım
Ölmüş adamlardan çıkar
Böyle münasip kahramanlar: onlar
Dirilemezler
Karşı çıkmak için
Yaşamlarından biçimlendireceğimiz imgelere
Hem, üstelik
Daha kolaydır anıtlar yapmak
Daha iyi bir dünya yaratmaktan"

Carl Wendell Hines

not: Ekşisözlük'ten marikaki'ye teşekkürlerle

Kaçırma / Miss it not

Söylenecek çok fazla bir şey yok aslında. Dopdolu ve derinlikli diyaloglar, başarılı senaryo ve akıcı, sürükleyici örgüsü, sürekli değişen açılarda, kimi zaman şaşırtan muhteşem çekimler, titiz seçilmiş ve dizilmiş sahneler, muhteşem oyunculuklar, emperyal dönem kentlerinin arşidükü Viyana'nın dört bir yanından en güzel mekanlar, sahnelerdeki modu aynen yansıtan harika müzikler. Bu film ve ardılı Before Sunset 150 kez izlenmeli. Hele bir de Issız Adam ve muadilleri gibi önümüze sunulan kuru saçmalıklardan sonra... Aşağıdaki diyalog, Amerikalı bıçkın karizmatik delikanlımız Jesse(Ethan Hawke)'nin, maceracı çok bilmiş Fransız kızı Celine(Julie Delpy)'i tren istasyonunda gitmekten vazgeçirme, başka bir dille, elinden kayıp gitmesini engelleme sahnesi...Filmin en güzel noktası.Bence...

Jesse: Alright, I have an admittedly insane idea, but if I don't ask you this it's just, uh, you know, it's gonna haunt me the rest of my life

Celine: What?

Jesse: Um... I want to keep talking to you, y'know. I have no idea what your situation is, but, uh, but I feel like we have some kind of, uh, connection. Right?

Celine: Yeah, me too.

Jesse: Yeah, right, well, great. So listen, so here's the deal. This is what we should do. You should get off the train with me here in Vienna, and come check out the capital.

Celine: What?

Jesse: Come on. It'll be fun. Come on.

Celine: What would we do?

Jesse: Umm, I don't know. All I know is I have to catch an Austrian Airlines flight tomorrow morning at 9:30 and I don't really have enough money for a hotel, so I was just going to walk around, and it would be a lot more fun if you came with me. And if I turn out to be some kind of psycho, you know, you just get on the next train.

Jesse: Alright, alright. Think of it like this: jump ahead, ten, twenty years, okay, and you're married. Only your marriage doesn't have that same energy that it used to have, y'know. You start to blame your husband. You start to think about all those guys you've met in your life and what might have happened if you'd picked up with one of them, right? Well, I'm one of those guys. That's me y'know, so think of this as time travel, from then, to now, to find out what you're missing out on. See, what this really could be is a gigantic favor to both you and your future husband to find out that you're not missing out on anything. I'm just as big a loser as he is, totally unmotivated, totally boring, and, uh, you made the right choice, and you're really happy.

Celine: Let me get my bag.

That Drive for Isolation

I guess it just comes at some point and never wanna leave you alone for a lifetime.

But, as human is a social existence, socially-driven and socially-motivated, or in another point of view, grown to be so out of the effect of the current society's collective unconscious whatsoever, there is still the necessity to console yourself and compensate for the lost socialization process and put something replacing that.

Well. I guess there are supposed to be some ways. There are no definite cures, however supposed to be some ways to enhance the situation. Music is one of them, Interactive World and the Internet, is definitely another one, and more and more people switch to that method each day. Well, in many cases, if you haven't yet found your soul twin or someone like that you might wanna refer with another cheesy/weird name, there is the pressure of P2P, Face-to-Face barrier and question of being locked at the mutual conversations.

But at the same time, it is not just a matter of conversation, too. It is at the same time a matter of behavior and as the age goes further and when you even see the early whites in the mirror, you also get the understanding of this fact: However much you like the people, however deep you are tied to them, you simply cannot stand their behaviors, manners or styles. Maybe they also cannot stand you, too. But every person is responsible with his/her own case, so, leaving apart the fact that empathy is a necessity in any relationship, every person will try to rectify and direct his/her own case.

Well. Je weniger, desto besser? Oder je mehr, desto super?