February 24, 2011

Caught unprepared

Kerim Balcı

I have always admired my nation’s solution-oriented creativity in times of crisis. Whenever a problem emerges, a brilliant touch of genius comes out and finds a way either to bypass or to solve, or at least to internalize and make peace with, the problem.

This is, I believe, one of the human sides of my nation, as opposed to the systemic successes of the Western mind. There, the system assures that the people should not make mistakes; here, the people find ways to cope with the mistakes and even turn them into success stories.