In praise of braggadocio

Have you ever thought about the difference between braggadocio and lying? We know that the word palavra came into Turkish from Ladino, that is, from Judeo-Spanish. This word has semantic connotations such as deviating from the truth, imaginary, exaggerated fabrication. But the strangest thing is that when we hear this word, a sense of pleasure awakens in us and makes us smile. So, aside from being afraid of this word, we embrace it immediately. Because braggadocio relieves us from the very beginning by distinguishing itself from the truth over the exaggeration it contains. Words do not hide themselves. They give themselves away from the beginning and directly. Even children know right away that something is mere braggadocio. Since it does not associate itself with the truth, it carries a constant innocence and appeal.

braggadocio carries within it a mysterious world of attraction. When brought side by side, it is obvious that a huge corpus will emerge from the well-known braggarts of old neighborhood cultures or folklore. . They existed almost everywhere until the late 1970s... For example, the famous braggartist Uncle Tello from Erzurum was one of the most well-known of them. Most of them have left this world, leaving pleasant memories behind. May Allah have mercy on all of them. If there are still survivors somewhere, we wish them well. Medicine diagnoses them with mythomania many times and they are treated. I don't know if it can be cured. Well, I prefer not to. What can be considered a cure for destroying the fertility that does not harm anyone in their inner world, but on the contrary, relieves the circles around them? It's killing while healing. That's why they won't be touched soon...

The smile that appears on the face of the one who hears the word "brag" disappears as soon as he hears the word lie. The faces, the faces are ice cold. Here is the difference. Lies do not remain as lies, they appear with the claim of truth. Bragging begins as bragging by separating from the truth, and continues as bragging. But the lie claims the truth from the very beginning and comes up with a hardware that gives the connotation of the truth. A successful lie, with a high capacity of persuasion; that is, it is a lie that makes us lose our sense of reality. Yes, it is said that "lies will be exposed sooner or later" or "truths have a bad habit of coming out eventually". I don't know, maybe it is. But what I know is that one of the factors that determine the life of a lie is the mastery and solidity of equipment in its fiction. The more skillfully this equipment is made, the longer the lie will last. The length and scope of the lie are relative to the skill of the person who is spinning the yarn.

Individual lies have individual costs, and social lies have social costs. The names of those who tell individual lies and who are harmed by them are known by name. When the place and the day come, they can be held accountable. The issue lies in the anonymization of the lie. Social lies point to just this anonymization. It is impossible to capture the speaker. You can catch the one who carries the most. It is at most one pod in this chain. Moreover, to the extent that it is socialized, the lie encompasses everyone to one degree or another. Everyone becomes a part of it. If the image of a liar we caught turns into a mirror, what we will see there may surprise us. Authoritarianism in effort to singularize the social lie by force; We call it totalitarianism that it is provided and maintained by keeping force in reserve and using other equipment. Can democracy be a competition of different lies? Is pluralism derived from the plurality of lies? Does plurality bring us to the truth; if not, does it take it away from it and carry it into nothingness? We know that social and political constructs and their engineering are based on some postulates. But we often do not include these postulates in our reasoning, we see them as indispensable (sine qua non) and move forward. Were the historical and social structures and the moral stocks we stored in them a mirage or a ghost? Do the structurelessness and drifts we experience today indicate that Isha has come and we have found the bottom of the candle? Why are the worlds established after the human disasters we have experienced and the peace that comes after wars so unstable? Where have we been swept away with the determination to put a post on everything, which started as post-industrialism and diversified as postmodernism? Is it the cycle of the lack of enthusiasm, giving up taking responsibility, surrendering to fascism, but then re-establishing a democratic world? If so, where did we go wrong into this loop? If not, is the proclamation of Post-Truth a final willlessness, a final surrender that extinguishes even the enthusiasm of seeking a new truth (lie) where plurality cannot be escaped and evolved into chaos? Nihilism has never colonized history as it does today; Was it that unbeatable