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G.P. 08

Spouses are as genetically similar as their second cousins. Friends are as genetically similar as their fourth cousins. Rich tends to select rich, educated tends to select educated. Tops stay at the top, bottoms stay at the bottom. Advantages and disadvantages are inherited across generations. In short, authority is not established in one day with one individual. People select each other. Society stratifies and gets linked by superior-subordinate relationships. Hierarchy trickles down.Despite all this selection and homophily, the existence of the unlike is

Despite all this selection and homophily, the existence of the unlike is a probabilistic certainty. In societies where differences are not accepted or even dismissed, different skills are seen as deficiencies rather than potentials. So, regardless of its strata, the unalike one always stays secluded. To protect the strata, authority must eat the unlike.

G.P. 09

On August 9, London was burning, the interim PM David Cameron was shouting “disgusting, utterly unacceptable”, while Darcus Howe in his live interview with the BBC was mentioning police’s unnecessary and copious checks on his grandson, and an insurrection of the masses of people. Meanwhile, in one part of the world, the Arab Spring stimulated by a street vendor Mohammed Bouazizi who set himself on fire in response to the confiscation of his wares and the harassment and humiliation inflicted on him, on the other part, a movement started by a group who called themselves the 99% and surrounded Wall Street stock exchange were taking place. In 2013, Brazil and Turkey; in 2017 Mexico, Venezuela and Iran; in 2019, Ecuador,France, Colombia, Lebanon, Chile and Hong Kong experienced similar protests.

In all these events, the causes and actors, the historical and political context have shown some dif ferences. But one common thr ead ran through them: astonishment.

The astonishment of the protestor, the police, the banker, the presenter, the principal and the PM. The most unexpected surprise for some, while a rare feeling of consternation for others.

The astonishment of the chaos emerged in the window that opened against all the ordinary days flowing in the background. The astonishment of the upheaval of the ground, even for a few days, razing what’s above to the ground.

The astonishment of the days when the protestor can look straight into the eyes of the policeman; chronic exclusion and suppressed shame can overcome the systematic mind; the pressure invisible from the top bursting open the wounds hierarchies inflict upon; when the invisible becomes visible, the crawling erects; black and white, old and young, butterfly and snake, frog and mouse intertwine and destr oy the authority. Those few days that emotion won, in its unfair competition, against reason.

G.P.07

Humans are rational. Using their mind, they behave in a way to benefit themselves. Animals are impulsive. They have no mind, act by their senses. Humans are superior to animals because mind is superior to instinct.

Studies of the last 40 years in the field of psychology and behavioural economics have shown that such hierarchical logic cannot be readily evidenced. According to some of these studies, people make their decisions often using fast-thinking and according to their first thoughts. Because the first thing that comes to mind is often stereotypes, strong memories, or extreme events that trigger impulses, people often behave impulsively and make systematic biases that deviate fr om the mind.

Such can be defined as bias or error within a certain conceptual framework, can be defined as bias or error. But who wants to live in such an unbiased, tasteless, certain and monotonous, hence rational exogenous reality? Does following our intuition, albeit lengthens the path, not bring us to the reality we want?

At G.P. 07, Doğu depicts the radical opposition states and places. The places where detachment from exogenous reality is possible with parallel dreams; the creatures that dance without moving their arms, do not move their ass, take extraordinary steps without rhythm, hug but do not kiss; the moments independent of what and why that does not require acquisition; the scenes of main actors where the muscles sit in their place, and generally feelings are raised and nurtured. Unidentified, unholistic, formless. Where every creature feels different and equivalent.

Free, but neither consistent nor r eal.