The Visionary
The future, and what is barely possible, reads round the next corner.
Ece Temelkuran is The Visionary because her intellectual project refuses incremental repair on principle. Rather than blaming individual strongmen, she traces democratic collapse to six decades of neoliberal ideology and insists moral transformation must precede political renewal.
“Yeah, I mean, like my writing has been centered around two words. I think when I die, people, you know, somebody will write an article about me and it's going to say this, that she wrote about home and road. And she was all about this.”
“I decide deliberately on anything, but then I think I, like many other people who are writing, have layers inside me, or maybe I'm a crowded person anyway. So there are these people in me. One of them is a journalist, one of them is a novelist, and so on.”
“Matthew, I think I understood this thing about human nature in this mystery about human nature in Beirut. Actually, people, all of us, we secretly want to sacrifice ourselves to something because this eye is so, oh my God, so happy to carry. So we want to melt it in something. But also we are extremely afraid.”
“Absolutely. And when you tell them to get angry, like, you know, why you are not angry and so on, like I'm talking about really working class people, they would spit on you because what anger I'm trying to survive. I have to keep my attention on surviving now.”
Ways to Change the World with Krishnan Guru-Murthy: “Ece Temelkuran: democracies don’t collapse overnight”
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