And threw a clot

The past accumulates. If you encounter or call upon objects from the past, you can bring the past back. The future is not like the past, it does not yet have an object. You have to build its object by dreaming, fight for its object, in short, insist on your future. But when the future comes, its object may not be as you imagined, your dreams may be broken. The future has changed the forms of things and given shape to things that do not yet have a form. And when the things that the future shapes change the current order of things, nothing is the same anymore. That is why orders are established with objects from the past. Nostalgia is a warehouse where objects from the past are accumulated. The tension created by the uncertainty of the future can only be eliminated with objects from the past, and nostalgia serves this purpose. Instead of facing the future, you can dive into the warehouse of nostalgia and continue your order with objects of memory. Nostalgia may seem innocent if it is specific to a personal history. Because as a person ages, they do not want to change the current order of things they are accustomed to. However, if nostalgia has become a social history, it is an indicator of a social pathology. When people adopt a past constructed by the powers that be as their own history, the future may not come. For them, salvation is not in the future, but in the past: “We are the grandchildren of the Ottomans.” The grandchildren of slaves and serfs who adopt a history constructed by the rulers “fight for their slavery as if they were fighting for their liberation” (Spinoza).

Time flows. As time flows, the forms of existing things change, some things disappear, new things appear. “In an ecosystem, energy and mineral nutrient flows manifest as animals or plants of a certain species. In this sense, our organic bodies are nothing more than the temporary coagulation of these flows” (de Landa, Nonlinear History, Metis). Power is a clot that insists on being permanent, a pathological case. The medical name for the blockage of flows in the body by a clot is embolism, the expulsion of a clot. A clot can cause a stroke. When the veins, arteries, main roads, and side streets of a city are blocked by a clot, life becomes paralyzed. The solution is to get rid of the clot as soon as possible. If, instead of getting rid of the clot, you are still living a life constructed by the clot, shame on you. The capabilities of paralyzed bodies decrease, they are dependent on others. The other is power; you cannot walk without the support of power. In a society where a stroke has struck, paralysis becomes the norm, you have to conform to the norm, you are expected to act like a paralyzed person. Bodies are further crippled by laws and decrees having the force of law. Being dependent on power means living a crippled life designed by it. In such a society, you never know what a body is capable of unless you go beyond the norm.

However, barricades are being built in front of those who want to know what their bodies are capable of, those who demand their future, and those who struggle to be free. The future is in the streets. Being free is a body discovering what it is capable of while flowing through the streets of the city. The future can only be brought by free bodies within the flows. If the veins of society are clogged, the future will not come, you will be forced to live daily lives structured by clots. Societies without a future are condemned to daily lives. Days are periods of time to be consumed; you also become exhausted with the days. Days gradually lose their flavor, become tasteless and eventually become bitter. The bitter taste left in the mouth at the end of each day increases even more, it cannot be swallowed. As days follow days, the pain that accumulates in the body becomes unbearable. Thank God, our appetite is still there, or as Spinoza puts it, our “conatus”, our desire to live. The problem will be solved when you realize that the tasteless, saltless, and spicy days are prepared by a chef and put in front of you. Either you will change the chef or you will get into the kitchen and learn to prepare the days that suit your palate. Days become delicious only to the extent that they open up to the future, and you can never consume them; you will multiply with the days that open up to the future.

Days follow days, but if the future never comes, get your social structure checked, it must have a clot. Doctors will advise you to get rid of the clot as soon as possible and flow freely in the streets. That's when the future will come!