Eski İspanyol Nezlesinin Puslu Perdesinde Yeni Dünya Düzeni, Yeni Hayat ve Yeni Edebiyatın Yüz Yıllık “Yeni Normal” İzleri
The Centenarian “New Normal” Traces of New World Order, New Life and New Literature at the Hazy Curtain of the Old Spanish Flu

Author(s): Nuri Sağlam
Subject(s): History, Health and medicine and law
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Spanish flu; coronavirus; new normal; new life; new literature;
Summary/Abstract: It seems quite difficult to predict what kind of a new world order the term “new normal” used for the post-epidemic is today, when according to the latest data of the World Health Organization the number of people who died from the coronavirus pandemic all over the world is more than three million. Therefore, in this article, the very interesting similarity of the Spanish flu, which emerged exactly a century ago towards the end of the First World War and caused the death of millions of people over the next two years, with the current Coronavirus pandemic in terms of both the most obvious symptoms and the measures taken are mentioned and in parallel with this, it is pointed out that some geopolitical strategies produced during the Spanish flu period by the imperialist Western states to keep Turkey under control have been reopened intensively for the same purpose today, where the Coronavirus pandemic still continues. Afterwards, it is emphasized that some strategic pillars of the new world order that started to be established after the First World War, such as the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Health Organization -albeit under different names- emerged for the first time during the time of the Spanish flu and that the missions of these organizations, especially during the Coronavirus pandemic, may gain more clarity in the light of sociopolitical developments during the time of the Spanish flu. Finally, during the Spanish flu, the general appearance of the society, which was impoverished by the disasters one after the other since 1911 and therefore lost all its moral values rapidly, in the Turkish literature and some of the predictions of some well-known writers under the title of “tomorrow’s literature” are discussed and thus, it is aimed to give a more voluminous and deeper vision to the political, social and cultural speculations that can be made about how our lives will be shaped in the near but rather uncertain future, called the “new normal”, through a similar process we lived a hundred years ago.

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