The Thinking State
The Work of Thinking
A Kurdish voice pursuing debates on philosophy, imagination, and worldly affairs.
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The Lesson That Matters Most
If I had to choose one lesson that outweighs the rest, it would be this. You are responsible for your own life, even for the parts you did not cause. This is not a fair arrangement. Bad luck happens. People fail you. Circumstances arrive that you never chose and never deserved. None of that changes…
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How Experience Shapes Social Perspective
We often hear the claim that experience shapes perspective. This ideology, especially in the context of traditional societies, is often treated as a comforting truism. Many of us even falls for it without questioning whether perspective also shapes experience. It is true that prior experience filters present interpretation. A person raised despite conflict may read…
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The Richest Man in Babylon
One of the most enduring meditations on wealth was set not in a modern city of glass and steel, but in Babylon, a city of dust and rivers, long returned to the earth. George S. Clason could have written a manual. Instead, he wrote something closer to a fable. And in doing so, he stumbled…
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The March of the Ten Thousand: The Story of the Kurds in Xenophon’s Anabasis
In 401 BCE, a Greek mercenary army of roughly 10,000 soldiers found itself stranded deep in enemy territory after the failure of a Persian dynastic coup. Their leader had been killed and they were surrounded. Their only way home was north through the mountains. And what they met there changed history’s record forever. The Greek…
Thinking in Public
A conversation series from The Thinking State
Thinking in Public extends the essays of The Thinking State into dialogue. Each conversation brings together scholars, analysts, and practitioners to explore questions about power, institutions, technology, economic transformation, and political imagination.
The first discussions will be released soon.