A Ministry of Quality must be set up
- 10 yıl önce
Excerpt from Mr. Adnan Oktar's Live Conversation on A9TV dated August 12th, 2014
Adnan Oktar: (Viewer’s letter) "You say that quality is important in art, but some of the folk songs you play fly in the fact of that.”
My brother, that means you do not like Turkish folklore and do not know its history. History has its own particular quality and folklore has its own particular quality. You sit down on the floor and drink your tarhana soup. That has its own aesthetic and beauty.
Quality does not mean suddenly doing away with history. Our history is high-quality from beginning to end. Contempt for our history stems from a misplaced admiration of Europe. It is wrong to regard the beauty of history as incompatible with quality. Yet our folk music is perfect and immaculate. It is perfect in terms of artistic quality and of beauty.
For example, the costume worn by the Ankara folk dancers are delightful. In my view that is a very high-quality and artistic conception of dress. These clothes are a fine reflection of history. If you do not like the art that comes from history, if you do not like Turkish Ottoman military band (Mehter) music… Yet the Mehter band is the best military music band in the world. I would advise my brother to receive some education so he can know what quality is.
My brother, if we play this piece at a Madonna concert they will surely get to their feet and dance. They will go out of their minds. Madonna would stand to one side and watch. It is a lovely piece of music. Isn’t it? All young people would get up and dance halay to it.
For example, if you go to a village and sit down on the floor eat by lamplight at night, you are establishing a concept. That is an aesthetic. Our brother who wrote needs to receive some education so he can see the quality of spirit there. The state should set up a Ministry of Quality, as there are people who cannot distinguish what quality is.
It is very wrong to regard one’s own culture as divorced from quality. The rational thing is to improve one’s own culture in terms of quality.
Adnan Oktar: (Viewer’s letter) "You say that quality is important in art, but some of the folk songs you play fly in the fact of that.”
My brother, that means you do not like Turkish folklore and do not know its history. History has its own particular quality and folklore has its own particular quality. You sit down on the floor and drink your tarhana soup. That has its own aesthetic and beauty.
Quality does not mean suddenly doing away with history. Our history is high-quality from beginning to end. Contempt for our history stems from a misplaced admiration of Europe. It is wrong to regard the beauty of history as incompatible with quality. Yet our folk music is perfect and immaculate. It is perfect in terms of artistic quality and of beauty.
For example, the costume worn by the Ankara folk dancers are delightful. In my view that is a very high-quality and artistic conception of dress. These clothes are a fine reflection of history. If you do not like the art that comes from history, if you do not like Turkish Ottoman military band (Mehter) music… Yet the Mehter band is the best military music band in the world. I would advise my brother to receive some education so he can know what quality is.
My brother, if we play this piece at a Madonna concert they will surely get to their feet and dance. They will go out of their minds. Madonna would stand to one side and watch. It is a lovely piece of music. Isn’t it? All young people would get up and dance halay to it.
For example, if you go to a village and sit down on the floor eat by lamplight at night, you are establishing a concept. That is an aesthetic. Our brother who wrote needs to receive some education so he can see the quality of spirit there. The state should set up a Ministry of Quality, as there are people who cannot distinguish what quality is.
It is very wrong to regard one’s own culture as divorced from quality. The rational thing is to improve one’s own culture in terms of quality.