get lost and wander

 get lost and wander

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Michel Foucault, a French philosopher who captured important features of modern power in the image of a shepherd on a search for 'one stray sheep'.


He argues that modern power has increased its power as a whole by totalizing the population in the way it individualizes, that is, by carefully caring for and taming individuals one by one.


It is said that active management and nurturing care that do not stop at simple oppression, confinement, and exclusion have become new technologies of power.


He called the modern ruling power 'pastoric power' by comparing it to the image of a 'shepherd looking for a lost sheep'.


Philosophy, for Foucault, was synonymous with 'lost and wandering.


Not a curiosity to make one's own knowledge that must be known, but a curiosity to allow one to walk away from himself, that was the motivation for Foucault's works.


What is the need for such a lust for knowledge that only guarantees the acquisition of knowledge and does not help the subject of perception to get lost and wander?


'In order to continue to reflect and observe, he may perceive differently than he currently thinks.'


There are moments in our lives when these questions are absolutely necessary.


Isn't it not just to justify what we already know, but to find out how and to what extent we can think differently from what we already know?


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Not the curiosity that builds culture, but the curiosity that drives me away from me,


It is not the acquisition of knowledge, but the lust for knowledge that helps us to get lost and wander.


Not justifying what I know, but how different I can think,


Critical thinking that tests how far you can think differently.


Foucault called it philosophy.


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Don't be afraid to wander.


Be willing to get lost.

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