Author: Salpi Ozgur
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Flourishing with Freedom
During my latest trip to Weimar I found myself in front of a group of Nietzsche sculptures. Trust me when I say that the guy staring at you is not endearing at all. Though it did motivate me to finally write this piece, which I’ve been putting off forever. For the past two years I’ve…
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Fate is a Dialogue
Recently, my friend Zeynep and I were working on a project when she told me a story from her childhood. As a child, she would watch the trees and the wind. She never believed the wind was shaking the trees. To her, the wind was simply how trees spoke to one another. That image stayed…
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Honey, You’re Not a Category
Perhaps, the better way is to stop producing new categories and heuristics every other minute and focus on how much nuance we can tolerate at a small scale. True emancipation looks less like living the “right” life and more like living one’s own.
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Kemal: A Hero of Our Time
Pamuk’s İstanbul is written from inside this loss. The city’s ruins, fog, water, and derelict wooden houses are not scenery; they are materializations of a withdrawn metaphysical horizon. Hüzün becomes urban atmosphere.
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The Split
Polarisation, then, will no longer be primarily political. It will be ontological. It will be about proximity to reality. Some will opt into technologies, narratives, and tools that twist everyday experience. Others will have to carry the burden of interrogating reality down to its substance.
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The Coin and the App
A hallmark of our age has been the death of ritual. We’ve silently traded ritual for speed. At first glance it seems we’ve made things more efficient, yet further examination suggests the opposite.
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Cultivating Personal Responsibility in the Digital Age
Those deprived of economic or social means to exercise control over their lives often turn to the cybersphere—a less restricted, less inhibited environment—to express the cruelty of their undeveloped selfhood. This is regrettable, because the same freedom from obligations and immediate consequences could have served as a vital space to cultivate the self and discover…
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Future of The Social Animal
Something is breaking in how we relate to one another. People feel it. Some notice it through failed dating attempts, others through friendships that have quietly withered, and many through the silent weight of loneliness. I call it a socialisation crisis, not just a loneliness epidemic. Loneliness is only a symptom. Socialisation is more than…
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humility, shame and reaching for a hand
Hubris isn’t an artificial construct or modern invention – it’s woven into our essential nature, our fundamental operating system. We aren’t living in an unprecedented age of narcissism; we’re simply expressing our species’ inherent arrogance.
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