Continued (Part Three): order and chaos are two fundamental archetypes of the mind. The difference between organic, internally generated order within a society and imposed order is the fundamental difference between harmony and the suffocation of authoritarianism. When people’s spirits are wounded and their chests have become a hell of anger, even if silence spreads everywhere and dominates everyone, that silence can never become even an artificial imitation of social balance and harmony. Nor can a happy, dynamic, creative and powerful society be born from it. If corruption beneath that silence spreads into the depths of the people’s psyche, and the father fails to recognise it when he should—because he too has been blinded by the same illness—then eventually the artificial structure of order imposed upon society will collapse and chaos will arrive. A sick society and a sick state will also make their environment and nature sick; from this severance, indifference and corruption, Noah’s flood will emerge and destroy everything. The inevitable fate of such a society is war, chaos and natural disaster. Yet perhaps a small opportunity still remains to halt the dragon of chaos and Noah’s flood.

In these days all of us know that we must do something more than pray for our homeland and our compatriots. In such difficult days many of us may be filled with suffering, hurt and anger. History is full of people who believed that one could travel along a road empty of light, love and truth and arrive at a world filled with love, light and truth. The world they created is the world and society before us: a world in which falsehood can present itself to us as truth, and self-deception and indifference have become a common illness.

To take even a small step for our homeland and to reduce the suffering of our compatriots, each of us is more powerful than we imagine. It is true that each of us is one person—but we are still one person. It is true that none of us alone can do everything needed to help our homeland and our fellow citizens, but there is still something each of us is capable of doing. What matters is that we do not stop doing the thing we know lies within our capacity, and that we remember that sometimes, without knowing it, doing that one thing we can offer to our country, our fellow citizens and our children may be exactly what our society needs for a better tomorrow.

Aydin Areta
November 2019