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CURRENT ARCHAEOLOGY ISSUE 72 ROADS AND TRACKS
We are faced with many events every day that can no longer be ignored, disregarded, or put aside as a single example.
These events happen so fast and are replaced by new ones that we don't even have time to think. As it becomes harder to put everything together and make sense of it, everything becomes meaningless and forgotten in daily life over time and we continue with a new one.
Nowadays, errors and problems seem to have multiplied to the point where they cannot be considered as singular examples. Errors have become generalized, normalized, and ignored as they become unimportant. This situation seems to be becoming not only a sociological problem but also a social psychological problem.
It is very difficult to define a phenomenon and understand a society based on a single event. As similar singular events increase and become general, the phenomena take shape over time, gain meaning, and as a result, concepts that are sufficient to define society begin to emerge. This is a very long process. Because the similarity between events becomes clearer over time and depth of judgment is formed. In Turkey, many abnormalities that have followed each other in recent years, even in recent months, weeks, and days, seem to have become normal.
The Dipsiz Lake example is a good example of this, don't let it fool you, it's not a special example. It's just one of dozens of examples that we come across every day within society, institutions, and the culture of common life. The only difference is that the subject remains current on social media and the press because a part of society is sensitive to attacks on nature. If there were no reactions, the destruction of Dipsiz Lake would have been forgotten long ago.
A 12 thousand year old Ice Age lake does not only belong to Turkey and the people of this geography, but also the common heritage of humanity. It existed long before all societies, states and civilizations that exist in the world today. Then this famous depth of judgment emerged: irresponsible, worthless and unrelated. Like many similar groups, it was destroyed by a few people, with legal permissions obtained through all official channels, in front of the eyes of public officials. Do all these events seem NORMAL? What legal, moral and social norms can explain the destruction of a lake or an archaeological site?
"Allowing" a lake to disappear - unfortunately there are legal grounds for this and there is no sign of social development and civilization that will eliminate those grounds - and then making countless statements to correct it... Again, millions that we cannot even calculate, which will be financed by our taxes, will not be able to heal the deep wound that has been opened in the memory, culture and judgment of the society, even if it physically brings back a lake. How can we think of Dipsiz Lake separately from Hasankeyf, dozens of mounds that remain underwater, Phrygian Rock Monuments that have been dynamited, rock reliefs that have been rained down with bullets, rock paintings that have been destroyed in search of minerals, and hundreds of ruins that are being destroyed by treasure hunters every day? Will we continue to accept every disaster as "a Turkish classic"?
This is neither the first nor the last example. What is lost is not only the common cultural, archaeological or natural heritage of a society, but also the values and future of living together.
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