Pillar two: Where you are.
March twenty-eighth, nineteen thirty.
Istanbul, Turkey.
For sixteen hundred years, the city was Constantinople.
It was a name carved in stone.
But on this morning, the Turkish Postal Service issued a directive.
Effective immediately… all mail addressed to Constantinople would be returned.
The city was now Istanbul.
No referendum.
No public vote.
Just a mandate.
Think about the implication.
A physical place… remained exactly where it was.
But the reality of the city… ch