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February 12, 2012
 
 
 
 
 
 
Columnists 03 January 2010, Sunday 0 0 0 0
BEJAN MATUR
b.matur@zaman.com.tr

Cosmic chambers and the new year

The word “cosmic” comes from “cosmos.” In Turkish, the cosmos is called the marvelous “kâinat.”
So something which is cosmic belongs to the order of the cosmos, the universe, the kâinat.

The order of the universe is not something humans really know well. We can only guess. Black holes, dark matter and the endless infinity full of secrets are things that captivate us. But we can never reach the borders. And not actually knowing is a sort of ambiguity. Ambiguity causes worry and fear of the unknown.

So, the so-called “cosmic chamber” is really a technical term. But its name reveals a sort of mentality, a mentality that belongs to those who think they have the right to make the absolute order of the universe their own. Those who are distant from the concept of the actual human miracle imagine it in a universe surrounded by secrets, or as a weak reality that lives with fear. Anyway, these sorts of people then try to recreate this weakness on another groundwork. The relationship between that need for security and authority is a topic for the history of coups. This kind of mindset, limited by the very borders of the world we live in, tends to deal with the unknown on only a conceptual level. This is why the deepest inner chamber of a deep power structure is called a “cosmic chamber” -- chambers that shelter the deepest secrets of a nation and where the security of the nation is shielded.

The dirtiest events and plans of the nation, plans that hurt people and threatened the lives of the downtrodden, were encoded in these chambers. And these things can never be revealed because that which owns the truth is the truth itself. Internal and external enemies, what interests are most important, who is to not be paid any attention -- all these are decided upon in these chambers.

But worst of all is an internal enemy. And there are so many of them. The mentality which sees the people of its own nation as the true enemy and which believes it needs to be brought under control sees false borders as fate.

The secrets are lined up like so many mummies. One of them is JİTEM, that organization without a name. Another is unsolved murders. And then let’s head back to May 1, Maraş, Sivas and even to the recent Tokat-Reşadiye attack. But in whose interest is all this? Who can know?

What is being said is this: Even if the hard drives are destroyed, the documents can be read. Is that really the truth? How much opportunity does technology really give us?

The cosmic chambers appeared to me like something out of the movie “The Matrix” -- a great metaphor in which there are thousands of knots. But the transformation of that metaphor is possible only through the work of the arm of justice. Will those letters and words really be read off the hard drives and presented to the people of the nation with the words, “Hey, people of the nation, we saw it as suitable for these reasons, for these high-placed motivations”? Would anyone really say this? What reminds me of “The Matrix” is this: Even if the hard drives that contain these secrets are completely destroyed, every single letter is actually imprinted in the universe. Perhaps these letters don’t belong to this world, but they remain as un-erased marks on the great board that marks the larger fate of this nation because, within the larger purpose of the universe, there is no evil. The true aim of creatures is not evil and killing because the real miracle at hand is still the very people who stand witness to the universe itself, and the unknown which belongs to it.

And so today, the narrow horizons of those who try to claim that they have brought the true mysteries of the universe down to earth -- and thus try to create their own miracle -- hits a real wall. The first brick of that wall has been identified. And by working together to demand more democracy and by embracing our rights even more strongly, we will make that wall ever more colorful. By raising humanity upwards, we will really build that wall because the truth now finally needs itself, not some false copy of itself.

Secrets are created as creation is deepened, not because people have researched or examined that which was created but because it is now time for us to protest and reject that which is being presented as some sort of secret, or that which was encoded in these “cosmic chambers.” Now is the time for all of us to demand transparency.

Today is one of the very first few days of the new year. Once more, a cycle in our relationship with this miraculous universe has been completed. Time has passed, and a new day means a new dialogue, new words. Happy new year to you all.

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