How wonderful that ‘Let’s do it’ event was…
Our politicians were competing with one another, and cleanups were taking place all across the country.
Our civil society organizations, volunteers, and politicians had all set about cleaning up together.
In fact, the “I cleaned up more” contest had taken off, and our responsible politicians, cleaning up the country with gloves on and large bags in hand, were posing for our media in photo after photo.
Every frame was saying, “Look, we can clean up too.”
At the end of the event, tons of trash had been collected, and it had also become clear just how filthy we were. But we hadn’t given much thought to that part.
“Yes, we’re filthy, but we can clean up,” we said, and for some reason, we were proud of ourselves.
As Orhan Veli put it, we were happy with “the joy of doing something within us.”
Our country was clean now, and we had cleaned it.
Perhaps the ‘Let’s do it’ event got us to do something we hadn’t done in years: we had moved beyond individualism and done a “thing” together, as a society.
Perhaps that is why independent candidates did so well in the local elections…
I’ll leave that interpretation to political scientists and sociologists.
Let’s get back to our filth…
Yes, we successfully held the ‘Let’s do it’ event and showed that we can clean up, but we must admit that we’re also pretty good at polluting our surroundings.
Three months have passed since the ‘Let’s do it’ event…
And filth has run rampant across the country.
So, unfortunately, one ‘Let’s do it’ is not enough for us.