{"id":279828,"date":"2025-11-08T10:18:33","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T10:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/?p=279828"},"modified":"2025-11-20T18:03:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T18:03:54","slug":"social-degradation-and-the-silence-of-conscience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/social-degradation-and-the-silence-of-conscience\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Decay and Silence of Conscience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 13-year-old boy kills a 60-year-old man.<\/p>\n<p>Silence.<\/p>\n<p>The difficulties faced by individuals with Down syndrome and the cries of their families are not heard. It is said, \u201cThey need blood, they will find it themselves\u201d... Again, silence.<\/p>\n<p>A child goes missing.<\/p>\n<p>The public reaction: \u201cWhat do I care, is it my child?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This indifference is not only a lack of conscience, it is the clearest sign of social decay.<\/p>\n<p>Political decay continues to trigger social decay.<br \/>\nNothing surprises us anymore, nothing upsets us anymore.<br \/>\nBecause our emotions are also blunted as part of the system.<\/p>\n<p>A religious culture teacher asks, \u201cWhat is conscience?\u201d in class.<br \/>\nThe 6th grade student's answer summarizes everything:<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cWhen one's inner voice gets a little upset...\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That word \u201ca little bit\u201d actually describes where we are today.<br \/>\nOur conscience feels a little upset, then quickly forgets.<br \/>\nBecause we are used to it. Because we are silenced. Because we don't care.<\/p>\n<p>Pensioners cannot make a living.<br \/>\nThe minimum wage cannot even pay rent.<br \/>\nFamilies who cannot give their children pocket money cannot look into the eyes of their children whom they send to school in the morning.<br \/>\nThe country has even forgotten to be ashamed of its livelihood.<\/p>\n<p>TurkStat conducts a general agricultural census.<br \/>\nFarmers in villages and districts are in fear.<br \/>\nWhat is the need for these counts?<br \/>\nYou have already established the markets and managed the shelves.<br \/>\nAt least build the farms and round up the cattle!<br \/>\nMaybe then inflation and interest rates will fall.<\/p>\n<p>But nothing falls until man confronts his own conscience.<br \/>\nNeither inflation, nor interest, nor anger...<\/p>\n<p>Unless society breaks its silence, conscience will continue to grieve only \u201ca little\u201d.<br \/>\nAnd that conscience that is \u201ca little bit\u201d upset will one day be completely silent.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unless society breaks its silence, the conscience will continue to grieve only \u201ca little\u201d. And that \u201cslightly\u201d saddened conscience will one day become completely silent.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":279829,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[286],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-279828","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-yazarlar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279828"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279946,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279828\/revisions\/279946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}