Lately, I’ve been thinking about a quote I heard which went “without free will, there is no difference between submission and rebellion.” Which made me question the whole concept of free will. I’ve always been a believer of it. However, I am aware of how our surroundings and what we’ve been exposed to may affect our perception of “reality” and therefore make us believe in choosing something when in actuality it’s not the thing that we want. I know it sounds complex but think of it as voting for K.K. with our so-called free will and learning that he’s not what one wanted to begin with.
In a world where realities with huge differences can coexist with one another and shift so swiftly. How can one decide to support a thing? I don’t believe blindly in a free will but even if there were one in a world in which you aren’t able to exercise it because of the falsely constructed notions of truth. What does that free will necessarily worth?
And then, without that free will mattering it feels hard to escape the idea that whatever we do wouldn’t matter as long as we are not the ones delivering so-called “truths” out to the public because we would be misguided. I don’t write out these things because I’ve lost hope and I’m trying to make you lose yours. All I’m trying to achieve is to make at least some people realize that to exercise free will one should be able to avoid “realities” constructed by others and should give oneself the opportunity to question what one really wants and follow it for oneself. Not necessarily following those who advocate for it because they might end up doing a switcharoo and leaving you feeling like an idiot at the end. If we ought to believe something depending on some other thing at least we should be able to depend on our minds more than any other’s.
I realize even that could be deceiving given that what we think is affected a lot by our environment and what we are fed through the media but that’s a topic for another time.
By İsmail Dinç
