Former TRT Announcer Sırrı Er Highlights the “Three Giants”: Injustice, Fear, and Ignorance

I addressed you through tales, examples, parables, poems, anecdotes, and the words of thinkers; this time I wanted my voice to be heard from within black and white, from a frame of a film.

Miguel de Cervantes’ novel Don Quixote, published in two parts in 1605 and 1615, is considered one of the foundational works of Western literature and the first modern novel.

In the novel, Don Quixote speaks to Sancho:
“We are fighting three giants, dear Sancho: injustice, fear, and ignorance. The rule has not changed as always, and the innocent have paid the price for the sins of the guilty.”

Centuries have passed.
Those giants are still before us.
Injustice is a destruction that deprives people of their rights, their labor, and their dignity; fear is the silence of crowds who know the truth but remain quiet; and ignorance is the most dangerous of them all.

Many of the pains we experience today stem from these three giants.

When justice weakens, fear grows stronger.
When fear grows, ignorance finds courage, and society—without realizing it—becomes estranged from its conscience.

Everyone thought Don Quixote was “mad.”
But in truth, he was a man who refused to bow his head. He did not fight windmills, but rather the order that dehumanized people.

The struggle against the three giants is not fought with swords, but with conscience and morality.

When a society becomes accustomed to injustice, it surrenders to fear. A society that surrenders to fear falls into ignorance.

The issue remains the same, dear Cervantes.
The giants have not changed.
These three giants are not invincible; the real defeat begins the moment we give up fighting them.

The struggle for justice is not carried out alone; it gains meaning when it is carried out shoulder to shoulder.

#ForEqualJustice

Masal, misal, mesel, şiir, fıkra ve düşünürlerin sözleriyle sizlere seslendim; bu kez sesimi siyah ile beyazın içinden, bir filmin karesinden duyurmak istedim.

Miguel de Cervantes'in 1605 ve 1615 yıllarında iki bölüm halinde yayımlanan romanı Don Kişot, Batı edebiyâtının kurucu… pic.twitter.com/MbwfdTJVaZ

— Sırrı Er (@konusmasanati) May 2, 2026