By ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ (GREEK) TÜRKÇE (TURKISH)
When talking about the “starvation line”, I raised a question: What is the limit of “Satiety”?
Let me make myself a bit clearer:
“The threshold of Greed.”
Because if this society keeps silent about the “greedy”, those hungry will never get their turn.
Poverty will never be an issue if we don’t define the limits of “satiety”!
I’m not talking about having a full stomach.
Of course, I’m talking about insatiability!
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A friend of mine visiting from abroad, asked me the following question after spending a few nights out:
“You’re always complaining but every restaurant and tavern I went to was full, and people were drinking like crazy.”
Of course, then there is the “invisible” majority…
It’s really interesting how that segment [of society] always sides with nationalism which imposes this life of poverty on them…
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And also, if we’re wining and dining every night, it’s generally because we are trying to drown our sorrows (!)
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Writer Besim F. Dellaoğlu says, “Societies which don’t produce enough, which don’t produce qualitatively, are societies which suffer from a low level of creativity”…
In another article of his, he makes the following assessment: “Societies which are too content with their ethnic identity, their religion, their religious sect and their ideology, in other words, if their identities surpass their personalities, such societies also suffer from a lack of creativity.”
We live in a place where those who consume outnumber those who produce.
We have an overabundance, not of those who are creative but of those who complain…
And know-it-alls…
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If we were to quote Besim F. Dellaloğlu again…
“In order to be creative and productive in every sense you need to be just as competent in comprehension, memory, cultural background and maturity, imagination and contemplation.”
Comprehension is the skill of understanding.
Imagination is to be imaginative…
Contemplation is the ability to think…
Now you do the math, where do we stand on the path to being productive and creative?
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We’ve learned where the starvation line stands.
Somehow, we haven’t learned the limits of greed, avarice and shamelessness…
Only when the “hungry” start consuming the “greedy”, will we all have a reason to hope!
Source: THE THRESHOLD OF “GREED”
