Author: Batuhan Takis

To have an opinion on something, you must first understand the subject thoroughly. It is a timeless and simple rule: knowledge first, opinion second. If we skip the first step, what comes out isn’t really an insight – it’s just noise. When people talk without knowledge, they mislead others, and often themselves too. They sound sure, but underneath that certainty is mostly guesswork. Still, many continue to speak before they learn. They are everywhere, on streets, at cafes, in politics. What’s worse is that some of them don’t even know there’s a rule to follow. They don’t know what they…

Power, as we all observe, is the force that governs all others. It seizes the human spirit like a curse from the earliest years of life. Those who fail to master this force inevitably become its archetypes. It whispers constantly, urging, “You must be alone.” Yet, no one can truly be alone. Such sinister counsel leads only to ambition and servitude. As J.R.R. Tolkien told in The Lord of the Rings series, power is a poison that transforms the strongest minds into slaves. The irony, however, lies in the fact that while everyone understands the concept of power, no one…