lycia
Message to Future
Since the ancient times, human being has been sending messages to the next generations, on purpose or without. The ancient age hieroglyphs on the monuments or cuneiform written clay tablets are messages from the past. The tablets sometimes are records about daily operations, whereas engraved on the strongest stone blocks hieroglyphs are messages for the future generations. Sometimes they give information about the person buried in the grave, sometimes a record for a historical event.
Today, we continue to keep records in mass compared with the records of the past. A compact disc is capable to pass enormous amount of information to others. Are these records strong enough to carry the information up-loaded on them to the years over millenniums? I do not think so. The ancient messages have succeeded to live our time, yet they continue to pass it for many ages. What made them to achieve to be alive over thousands of years? First, they are strong enough to stand against the natural adverse effects, second no awesome event, such as a nuclear destruction, occurred. As the man-kind has now a power that may destroy the world, from now on, nobody can assure that the future generations would receive enormous amount of information regarding their ancestors.
With the technology of today, we are able to send messages from our world to other worlds. This means, our borders are now broader. Not limited to our world only, but also other civilizations in the space that we do not know now. The technology is so far so developed that a tiny computer chip may store all the information we have received from our ancestors until now. This is an incredible improvement. The same science has been increasing the risks too, for us. Today, we may say that we are at the borders of thought, as did our ancestors years and years ago. But imagine our grand-children, or grand-grand-grand children would have a capability to live in the past with all trueness by inserting a chip to a PC controlled environment. Now imagine again that would not it be good if we could live with Lycians as if someone from their community for a period in order to understand their life? I hear you say “yes, it would”. May be we do not have a powerful tool, as our grandchildren would have, but we can inhale the same air and feel as they did, if we keep the historical heritage protected.
When you are in ancient place, I believe the following questions whirls up in your mind:
· Who were they?
· How was their daily life?
· What did they wear?
· How did they prepare their meals?
· What did they eat?
Similar many other questions go back and forth in your brain. Unfortunately, the majority of these questions have no answer. You just feel. Better these places are reconstructed, you feel better. We need to reconstruct our lovely historical places diligently as they had been worth much. As Turkey, we owe this not only to our ancestors, but also to our future.
Many of such historical areas are still without a proper protection against damaging effects. Our values may get damaged due to many reasons, such as uneducated inhabitants of a nearby village, foreign or Turkish thieves, fires; floods should be under control with proper precautions taken by authorities. Legal basis for such precautions has to be reinforced without delay, implying hurting penalties. All foreign guests should be warned legally at the entrance ports.
Further to the recent foreigner flow to west and south parts of Turkey, we have now a considerable number of foreign inhabitants in Kalkan, Fethiye, Bodrum, Didim, and Antalya. I believe, as much as we Turkish citizens do, our foreign neighborhoods have also similar responsibility to educate their own citizens visiting our country. They must not come to Turkey with misdeed, as all these remained from the past are heritage to be transferred to future best protected.
Since the ancient times, human being has been sending messages to the next generations, on purpose or without. The ancient age hieroglyphs on the monuments or cuneiform written clay tablets are messages from the past. The tablets sometimes are records about daily operations, whereas engraved on the strongest stone blocks hieroglyphs are messages for the future generations. Sometimes they give information about the person buried in the grave, sometimes a record for a historical event.
Today, we continue to keep records in mass compared with the records of the past. A compact disc is capable to pass enormous amount of information to others. Are these records strong enough to carry the information up-loaded on them to the years over millenniums? I do not think so. The ancient messages have succeeded to live our time, yet they continue to pass it for many ages. What made them to achieve to be alive over thousands of years? First, they are strong enough to stand against the natural adverse effects, second no awesome event, such as a nuclear destruction, occurred. As the man-kind has now a power that may destroy the world, from now on, nobody can assure that the future generations would receive enormous amount of information regarding their ancestors.
With the technology of today, we are able to send messages from our world to other worlds. This means, our borders are now broader. Not limited to our world only, but also other civilizations in the space that we do not know now. The technology is so far so developed that a tiny computer chip may store all the information we have received from our ancestors until now. This is an incredible improvement. The same science has been increasing the risks too, for us. Today, we may say that we are at the borders of thought, as did our ancestors years and years ago. But imagine our grand-children, or grand-grand-grand children would have a capability to live in the past with all trueness by inserting a chip to a PC controlled environment. Now imagine again that would not it be good if we could live with Lycians as if someone from their community for a period in order to understand their life? I hear you say “yes, it would”. May be we do not have a powerful tool, as our grandchildren would have, but we can inhale the same air and feel as they did, if we keep the historical heritage protected.
When you are in ancient place, I believe the following questions whirls up in your mind:
· Who were they?
· How was their daily life?
· What did they wear?
· How did they prepare their meals?
· What did they eat?
Similar many other questions go back and forth in your brain. Unfortunately, the majority of these questions have no answer. You just feel. Better these places are reconstructed, you feel better. We need to reconstruct our lovely historical places diligently as they had been worth much. As Turkey, we owe this not only to our ancestors, but also to our future.
Many of such historical areas are still without a proper protection against damaging effects. Our values may get damaged due to many reasons, such as uneducated inhabitants of a nearby village, foreign or Turkish thieves, fires; floods should be under control with proper precautions taken by authorities. Legal basis for such precautions has to be reinforced without delay, implying hurting penalties. All foreign guests should be warned legally at the entrance ports.
Further to the recent foreigner flow to west and south parts of Turkey, we have now a considerable number of foreign inhabitants in Kalkan, Fethiye, Bodrum, Didim, and Antalya. I believe, as much as we Turkish citizens do, our foreign neighborhoods have also similar responsibility to educate their own citizens visiting our country. They must not come to Turkey with misdeed, as all these remained from the past are heritage to be transferred to future best protected.
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