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  • never

    WE NEVER HAD IT SO GOOD
    ****************************************
    Wrong life, wrong time and place,
    under wrong people with wrong ideas:
    nothing about us is right.
    Nothing!
    Our present situation is not just xxxxuation
    but a nightmare, or as the French say,
    “un enfer de merde,” from which
    we refuse to wake up.
    *
    What we need is not just a statesman of vision
    who will guide us out of our labyrinth
    but a messiah, who --
    if we adopt history as our guide –
    will share the fate of the other one,
    thus condemning us to another
    two millennia of nightmares.
    *
    We never had it so good!
    #

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    • comments

      FROM MY NOTEBOOKS
      ****************************************
      To keep us stupid
      they tell us we are not just smart
      but just about the smartest people on earth.
      *
      One way to describe Soviet-Armenian architecture
      is to say it was cunningly designed
      to kill the maximum number of people
      in earthquakes.
      *
      There is a difference between patriotism
      and patriotic propaganda:
      the first is a sentiment;
      the second an instrument of deception.
      *
      To contradict someone who lives in harmony
      with his own misconceptions, prejudices and fallacies
      is like interrupting a honeymoon.
      *
      The true atheists are not those
      who identify themselves as non-believers
      but bishops, imams, and rabbis.
      *
      To those who say writing for Armenians
      is a waste of time, I say:
      “I write to provide a footnote to Zarian.”
      #

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      • idiots

        IDIOTS
        *************************
        Memo to a new FB friend:
        “Dear friend:
        It is obvious to me that you and I
        share absolutely nothing in common.
        It follows, we can learn a great deal
        from each other.”
        *
        A man without contradictions
        is a dead end.
        *
        Two world wars:
        What did they accomplish? –
        except to show that stupidity has been
        and continues to be the mightiest force in history.
        And when I speak of stupidity
        I mean not the stupidity of the masses
        and the unwashed but the stupidity
        of the smartest, the ruling classes,
        the most sophisticated,
        and the most highly educated.
        *
        When they condemned two harmless
        as well as innocent men
        (Socrates and Jesus) to death,
        did any one of them say,
        “What the f*** are we doing? "
        *
        Cherchez la femme?
        Wrong!
        Cherchez les idiots!
        That’s different.
        #

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        • them & us

          US & THEM
          ******************************
          In their own eyes and in the eyes of most men,
          Turks are not bloodthirsty savages
          but men like all other men,
          and like all other men
          they can be ruthless
          in defense of their own narrow interests.
          *
          You want to know more
          about this human peculiarity?
          Ask Algerians about the French,
          natives about Yanks,
          dissidents about Russians,
          Hindus about Muslims,
          Untouchables about Hindus,
          Protestants about Catholics,
          and last but far from least,
          Armenian writers about Armenians;
          and when I speak of Armenian writers
          I don’t mean Arlen and Saroyan,
          who wrote fiction even when
          they wrote non-fiction.
          *
          And speaking of Armenian writers:
          Two questions that I ask myself again and again are:
          Why was I born an Armenian
          and why did I compound the felony
          by being an Armenian writer?
          #

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          • Re: wolves

            Originally posted by arabaliozian View Post
            Monday, March 23, 2015
            ***************************************
            Once when I said Baronian had been betrayed
            to the Ottoman police by some of his readers,

            #
            It is said that Baronian found Ottoman police to be less judgemental than Armenian community and church leaders!

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            • history

              A STUDY OF HISTORY
              **************************************
              Imagine a political candidate who says to the people:
              “You are smart,” and another who says “You are idiots.”
              Can you guess which candidate
              will have a better chance to be elected?
              *
              Now imagine a writer who says to the ruling classes:
              “You are statesmen of vision,
              the people owe their survival and prosperity to you.
              If they never had it so good it’s because of your wisdom.”
              And another writer who says:
              “You are the scum of the earth.”
              Can you guess which writer
              will have a better chance to enjoy the support
              of the establishment?
              *
              Moral I: Flattery works because it is
              to human relations what oil is to machinery.
              *
              Moral II: In politics as in life,
              lies are more useful than truth.
              *
              Moral III: The function of the 1%
              is to moronize the 99%
              and the function of the 99%
              is to drop their pants and bend over.
              *
              Moral IV: Both the 1% and the 99% agree
              that lies make more sense than truth.
              *
              Moral V: There is nothing in wrong
              in speaking in the name of God
              and doing the Devil’s work
              because everybody does it.
              #

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              • enjoy

                ENJOY!
                ****************************
                Some of the most important decisions in our lives –
                such as the time and place of our birth and death,
                whether we live in time of war or peace –
                are not made by us but by conditions beyond our control
                and by individuals who know nothing
                and care even less about us.
                *
                As for freedom:
                our options are so limited that
                we might as well be ants in a labyrinth:
                we may have the freedom to turn left or right
                at the next corner, but beyond that
                we might as well be slaves.
                *
                Some writers share their wisdom.
                I share my misery.
                I believe in the old saying:
                “You want to make your friend happy?
                Speak to him of your problems.”
                #

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                • comments & observations

                  NOTES / COMMENTS
                  *********************************
                  When we want something badly
                  we expect the universe to rearrange itself for us
                  and we are disappointed when it fails to do so.
                  *
                  Some people study the rules of the game
                  so that they can break them more wisely.
                  *
                  Shakespeare never wrote a book
                  on the art of writing
                  because he was too busy writing,
                  and had he written such a book
                  we would have fewer writers today
                  because they would realize
                  they didn’t have what it takes.
                  *
                  Love our enemies?
                  Don’t make me laugh!
                  We can't even stop hating one another.
                  #

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                  • armenians

                    Wednesday, April 01, 2015
                    ****************************************
                    ARMENIANS ON ARMENIANS
                    ********************************************
                    “What do you think of Armenians?”
                    When directed to an Armenian,
                    this question might as well be
                    an invitation to insanity.
                    *
                    Some Armenians make a career
                    out of saying the opposite of what you say.
                    This is as much an objective observation
                    as a confession.
                    *
                    Nothing and no one can be as absurd
                    as an Armenian on Armenians.
                    *
                    I don’t remember to have ever met
                    an Armenian who thought of his fellow countrymen
                    as ordinary human being
                    with their share of assets and liabilities.
                    *
                    Every Armenian considers himself
                    an authority on the subject.
                    *
                    What do you think of Armenians?
                    No matter what the answer
                    there will be some truth in it.
                    One safe answer: “Shish kebab and pilaf
                    are to Armenians what spaghetti is to Italians,
                    meat and potatoes to Yanks,
                    noodles to the Japanese,
                    and human flesh to cannibals.
                    *
                    Very much like Greeks
                    and the rest of mankind,
                    Armenians think of their homeland
                    as the cradle of civilization,
                    even when the evidence may suggest
                    it is closer to being its coffin.
                    *
                    Armenians are smart?
                    Judging by their history,
                    they may be closer to being
                    not just dumb
                    but just about the dumbest people on earth.
                    #

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                    • myself

                      MORE ABOUT MYSELF
                      ************************************
                      To be born and raised in an alien environment
                      can be hell on earth.
                      Whenever I make a list of my blessings,
                      I begin with the fact that I was born and raised
                      not in Armenia but in a Greek slum in time of war.
                      *
                      If history teaches us anything it is this:
                      Homo sapiens is a being without a moral compass.
                      *
                      The wise man blames himself as readily
                      as the fool blames others.
                      *
                      There is a type of dupe –
                      and I count myself one of them –
                      who is such an easy target that
                      he might as well be an open invitation.
                      *
                      A history of Armenian literature in brief:
                      Our writers were silence when alive,
                      ignored when dead.
                      *
                      In a land of liars, to speak the truth
                      can be a capital offense.
                      #

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