The New World Order and Turkey
The world’s primary problem is neither environment, nor population, nor famine. The primary problem is “ROBOT”!
The unemployment that robots will create will have an explosive effect on the world within twenty years at the latest. Not just workers… With the unpredictable acceleration of Covid-19, store-based commerce will transform into mere display windows due to the geometric shift of trade to the internet, leaving tens of millions of merchants unemployed and commercial building tenants vacant worldwide. The logistics sector will come to the forefront.
Similarly, working from home and remote education will change lifestyle patterns. Multi-billion dollar luxury office buildings, namely plazas, will transform into ruins or residential spaces. As unemployed people lose their purchasing power, production will enter crisis. Social explosions may lead to totalitarian, Huxleyan or Orwellian regimes.
The recent explosion in gun sales in the USA is harbinger of a dark future. As they say, “A hungry chicken pecks through the granary.” Hungry masses will become the biggest threat to the USA. In the individualistic West, where family solidarity is weak and social solidarity is lost, the “homeless” population will reach serious numbers. In Western countries with police state discipline, people are helpless against the powerful state. However, as we know from the French Revolution and 19th century social explosions, the pressure cooker effect makes chaos inevitable at some point. The USA could also “implode” unexpectedly like the USSR, that is, collapse inward; today, the bankruptcy of States is being discussed in the country.
At the root of all problems lies the “Capitalist Philosophy” that needs to be discussed. Just as Socialism was theoretically a paradise, capitalism was theoretically humanity’s final, ideal point in history. But we see that after the Soviet experiment, this Darwinist, unjust philosophy, a remnant of colonialism-imperialism, has also proven to be rotten. We realized that 5 grams of virus could destroy all humanity. We witnessed with horror the inadequacy of healthcare infrastructure in the Western world, and how the poor and elderly in the USA were truly left to die.
What about the “Rest” outside the “West” in the global village? Authoritarian Arab countries are pressure cookers ready to explode. Africa’s future, in particular, is even darker. Hunger awaits their young populations. As Mr. Öğütçü stated, massive tribal migration is imminent. And the target is Western and Northern countries, including Turkey.
So where is the world heading? Biotechnology will undoubtedly discover the antiviral treatment pill for the virus just as it invented penicillin against microbes, and extend human life with many additional inventions. Perhaps cancer and virus medications are ready, but they cannot be released to the market because global population control has not yet been decided?
Regarding international relations..
“Legitimacy” is the magic word for international leadership. It has three stages: Let them love, let them respect, let them fear. The USA was loved after World War II. During the Cold War, love gave way to respect. After September 11, by opening the inhumane Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, it said let the world fear me. And it reached the final station of legitimacy. In fact, Western civilization has passed its peak point and is in decline. Which is more dangerous for humanity: rising powers or declining powers? China, rising for centuries, is a closed box. It is not a power whose leadership can be predicted like the Ottoman, Russian, or British empires. As I mentioned in my speech at the 70th Anniversary celebration in Shanghai, gaining global legitimacy and replacing the USA is not easy. Uncertainty becomes dangerous.
And let us come to our Turkey.
Every Turk should believe this: The Republic that Atatürk established is in its rising era. That is… A country progressing in a deteriorating world.
We are among the rare countries that caught the industrial revolution by its tail. We are a country with strong family ties, practical mindset, organizational capability, and whose leadership could be accepted as it strengthens with legitimacy from history.
Our educational philosophy has not yet settled, it alienates our youth from their essence, and those who study want to escape abroad. But rapidly increasing racism in the West indicates an approaching second holocaust. Mass Muslim genocide could occur within 10 years; we must be prepared for reverse migration from abroad. We should particularly prepare to attract important Muslim scientists working in the West. We have historical examples in this regard.
On the other hand, massive migration will begin from countries like India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran, which will be devastated by water scarcity within ten years, making us long for today’s migration levels to the West. Turkey, previously a bridge, is now seen as the final stop in migration, under serious demographic threat.
Agriculture, biotechnology, healthcare, software, education, and logistics are strategic areas; it would be beneficial to concentrate all resources in these areas.
Turkey’s Achilles’ heel is societal rupture. As known, Western societies were divided (from a Marxist perspective) into capitalist-proletarian classes continuing from feudalism. The Ottoman Empire, as historian Arnold Toynbee defined, was the regime closest to Plato’s ideal state. It consisted of the ruling Devshirme and the ruled peasant classes. The Devshirme class transformed into Republican bureaucracy, and as Anatolian capital embracing capitalism strengthened, it entered into a war to take over the State from the Westernist devshirme bureaucracy. The social rupture and atmosphere of hatred in Turkey seems likely to continue until this bloodless revolution concludes.
Can Turkey be good in a deteriorating world? It cannot. Therefore, a global solution. We are transitioning from a unipolar world to a multipolar world order where regional powers are rising. Turkey is undoubtedly a rising regional power. When acting responsibly, it can make serious, positive contributions to world peace and economy.
When the Middle East stabilizes, which is the natural extension of Istanbul’s economy, the Turkish economy will at least quadruple. Neither China nor any other economy can compete with our business world in the region.
The Corona crisis also nailed this point in our minds: Food and health are the most vital areas. Those strong in these sectors survive during crisis. Major Western economies are dependent on imported food and medical supplies, people are rushing to markets. Therefore, our most strategic areas should be agriculture and animal husbandry, which we once looked down upon, along with biotechnology/electronic health technology.
And finally, the advice that Jesus Christ, Prophet Muhammad, and Atatürk agreed upon: Humanity is like a single body. When one part aches, the entire body feels it. There is no individual salvation in the new world. There is no individual security. All humanity must cooperate. New philosophy, new leadership is needed.
