Brand New Tomorrow (and sending financial aid to Syria and Turkey)

We are living in turbulent times and if only the earthquake in Turkey and Syria was missing. Now we need more heart-led leaders as never before.

Source: Korn Ferry

Of course we are all deeply moved, deeply saddened by the tremendous devastation caused by consecutive massive earthquakes last Monday. Words remain meaningless, including ‘Geçmiş olsun to all’. Unfortunately, the news since then has only shown a deteriorating situation in the region: while I and so many others in my circle of friends wish every blessing to those who have lost their lives, offer heartfelt condolences to their families and loved ones and best wishes to those injured for a speedy recovery, all our thoughts remain with the millions of affected people in the region.

What are the consequences?

As we continue to receive unfortunate news of lost relatives, friends and colleagues, it makes it impossible to find words to express our sympathy more unspeakably at this time to express sadness. Even though some miracles happen: Having heard from a wreck on Yavuz Sultan Selim Street in the General Şükrü Kanatlı District of Hatay, the firefighters reached the mother Neslihan Karadeniz (41) and her children Fatma (21), Münire (15) and Ramazan Karadeniz (7). After hours of work, the mother and her three children were pulled out of the rubble at the 108th hour of the earthquake. The injured were taken to the hospital yet, one still needs a new way of thinking in order to help millions of people if this were to happen again... maybe in Istanbul next time?

So what needs to be done to better prepare a country for such massive earthquakes?

Globally speaking, the answer lies in all of us, as this question is also helpful on a higher level, for those who are interested in preventative measures in general, i.e. not geotechnically or construction law making related, but this time, insights on a change in old thought patterns in general.

As the situation is serious in the end and the topic of old thought patterns has such potential for redeployment of wealth, power and goodwill plus many chain reactions, it may be easier to approach it with some humor.

And in the end, laughter might change us, who knows. If you read these days Lisa Eckhart, for example, there is a lot to laugh about, even though she demands a lot of attention, nerves of steel and willingness to provide information from the reader.

The blonde cabaret artist who also writes books and deals critically with all the certainties of the self-confident person, but that is precisely why she can also make you think.

Especially about our future.

Source: Lisa Eckhart - Omama.

When laughing, memories quickly come to light when there were once great hopes of making our Western democracies more alive through the internet and social media, and to start collective learning with citizens directly participating in political discussions.

Instead, increased isolation got rolling.

Neither improved communication technologies nor social media were conducive to democracy.

One of the reasons is, of course, the demographic patterns in change, when the interests of the elderly are politically oriented, nevertheless rather short-term yet come more to the fore, leading over time to loosing democratic grounds. On some level such an earthquake on the worldwide democracies resembles the physical devastation in Turkey right now. But also in the false incentives of the rather materialistic basis for assessing progress of our worldwide economic framworks thus the resulting increasing global (Syria included) inequality, which has also in many nations changed the social situation of many dependently employed couples (also in Germany, for example) where it has become almost impossible for couples who are not so well informed and educated to find a way to effectively defend interests.

Today it seems that, in addition to working and raising children, they hardly have any time to get involved in clubs, trade unions or political organizations. Like this, yavaş yavaş, the West also gets into troubled waters when the rich continue to exploit the poor and the old, this young, impersonally but systematically and both hand-in-hand our ecology.

The false incentives of the future now include BIG TECH fans who have recently put new hopes in AI.

Advanced automation has been applied to all types of applications for years, but what for example ChatGPT has newly done is apply a specific area of ​​machine learning, Large Language Models, onto a conversational environment and has dazzled the world in the process.

As a result, more and more people are using it — not so much for conversation as it was originally designed, but as a search engine. This is a not-so-desirable development.

So when it comes to the quality and reliability of social content, how can we be sure?

AI only answers questions based on affinities and statistical matches, and the only way to get "correct" answers is to filter them, i.e. rule out what is unsuitable. This is non-trivial, so some answers will be partially wrong, and sometimes they will be very wrong, even if the language used seems that of an expert.

For me, the core of the AI ​​message is relatively simple:

we can only use AI to protect and spread human rights.

Human rights are in in fact the lowest common denominator of all cultures and yet represented the most convincing idea to secure peace between people, states and nations.

The view that human rights are a Western achievement that cannot be readily transferred to Syrian, Asian or African societies is clearly to be rejected. But please, who is it in this fast-moving, disoriented world? And how dare you?

Who believes (which well-paid manager of international companies with self-interest or average politician even without great greed for profiling) that the principles of humanity are finally found in every world religion?

As with Kant, actually in every golden rule "Do not do to others what you do not want done to you"?

Wouldn't this also be found in modern internet easily as it is in Christianity as well as in Islam or other religions? Confucianism?

Socrates and Confucius, who are very similar almost simultaneously and yet completely independently of each other developed theories on human coexistence, teach us for peace we need some more homeworks to do and we will certainly encounter several times in the future in the course of further earthquakes, physical or mental.

When world people have world rights, but don't use them, then through their global passivity they force others to take responsibility for them. What applies to unscientific building cultures also applies to unscientific thought patterns.

And after 1999 in Turkey one can now once again observe first-hand what dangers it entails.