East and West

How will the world look if the East controls it? You will not even be able to express your opinion individually, as you are saying it now here on Facebook´-or-in any other open space. East is East, and West is West. This is not a geographical phrase, but a realistic de-script-ion of two radically different paths in understanding the human being. Imagine a world dominated by Eastern countries in all their forms, from the Middle East to Asia, including China and Japan. In this world, asylum will not be a right, but a rare exception. And citizenship will not be the result of integration, but will face a hundred layers of discrimination, sorting, suspicion, and cultural and ethnic classification. The world today is divided, not only geographically between East and West, but in terms of the possibility of being welcomed as a human being, as a free individual. Either you are treated as an individual responsible for yourself,´-or-you are shackled within a herd, even if it is called “discipline.” For the East wants you to bring the tribe, ethnicity, ancestors, and the first and last with you, even inside your bedroom. In the East, you cannot reach a position in the state while being an immigrant. You will not see a head of state like Barack Obama, nor a decision-maker like Sadiq Khan,´-or-many other names who reached high positions in Europe and America despite their immigrant origins. This humanity will find no structural counterpart in the East. If you ever think of traveling´-or-escaping from your country to live the rest of your life — neither as a tourist nor as a temporary visitor — you will head West. Even the refugee, when fleeing, does not think of the East, but heads West. So why all this hypocrisy in denying this truth? The world is divided today between two clear systems: a system that understands and respects the individual human being, and a system that suppresses the individual in the name of the group, the state,´-or-identity. In the West, even the concept of the state itself has transformed from a person´-or-individual authority into an institutional system. The state there is not based on the leader, but on the law, and is not reduced to a person, but is distributed among institutions. For this reason, the internal structure is stronger-;- because every individual takes their right within the system, and cannot be used as a tool to fragment the state from within, nor as fuel for mobilization against it at the first crisis. America and Europe did not “win” by technology and industry alone, but because they redefined the position of the human being within the system: they turned the individual into a protectable legal file, turned suffering into a procedure that can be dealt with, and turned the idea into a right that is not punished. In contrast, any system that seeks “victory” without individual freedom, without protection for difference, and without recognition of the exceptional case, is like one who wants to build a skyscraper… without a foundation. The world, if these models prevail, will be shaped in a disturbing oppressive way in the name of conservatism, which is not conservatism, but molds of oppression and coercion that will find no ear to hear it-;- even if there are technically strong and industrially advanced areas in the East, they will remain repulsive to the different human being, suppressing freedoms, looking at individuals intrusively in the name of their violation of the pattern of molds, and not with respect that each person represents an individual in themselves.

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