Re: Kocharian: a criminal?
So they happen to be Joos. Where did they get together to discuss that they are going to go through with these plans? Do they have this unconscious telephathic connection among themselves just because they are Joos that they will engage in stifling Armenia's efforts at revival? Or were they born with an innate pre-programming that they will "carry the will of the Joo"?
In either case, it is irrelevant. My number one complaint with Armenians (and this is unpopular because we all know Armenians do not like criticism, especially of the Serjik brand), that Armenians have always blamed someone other than themselves for their current historical predicament.
Why couldn't we be as successful as Joos? We are a small people, we are pretty savvy with money and bright, but it seems that if we go back to the start of the proverbial race, someone got a head start and that was because of their competence.
We can sit here and blame Joos, Turks, whatever. What's done is done. At this point, the greatest thing we can do is "damage control" because I assure you sir, we are clearly not in any position to alter the centrifugal forces of history.
There are actors and there are reactors. We are only able to react to changes created and put in praxis by forces larger and more powerful than us. Sure, we can blame away, I suppose that's one way, but that is not going to do anything.
EDIT: And suffice to say, that any Armenian, such as Kocharian or Serjik (Levon does too, don't worry), who has blood of Armenians on their hands, is far more of a detriment to Armenians, than any mythical Joo from afar who happens to throw money at "democratic elections." It was the same Armenians who sold out the wave expatriates like my grandparents and shipped them off to Siberia as traitors under Stalin. Let's cut the crap and look at ourselves first. The squabbling by the political class and their lemmings is as distasteful and detrimental to Armenian revival as this supposed mythical phantom Joo. To this day, Armenia still lacks the true "hyaser" leader that we heard and read about in folklore.
Originally posted by Hellektor
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In either case, it is irrelevant. My number one complaint with Armenians (and this is unpopular because we all know Armenians do not like criticism, especially of the Serjik brand), that Armenians have always blamed someone other than themselves for their current historical predicament.
Why couldn't we be as successful as Joos? We are a small people, we are pretty savvy with money and bright, but it seems that if we go back to the start of the proverbial race, someone got a head start and that was because of their competence.
We can sit here and blame Joos, Turks, whatever. What's done is done. At this point, the greatest thing we can do is "damage control" because I assure you sir, we are clearly not in any position to alter the centrifugal forces of history.
There are actors and there are reactors. We are only able to react to changes created and put in praxis by forces larger and more powerful than us. Sure, we can blame away, I suppose that's one way, but that is not going to do anything.
EDIT: And suffice to say, that any Armenian, such as Kocharian or Serjik (Levon does too, don't worry), who has blood of Armenians on their hands, is far more of a detriment to Armenians, than any mythical Joo from afar who happens to throw money at "democratic elections." It was the same Armenians who sold out the wave expatriates like my grandparents and shipped them off to Siberia as traitors under Stalin. Let's cut the crap and look at ourselves first. The squabbling by the political class and their lemmings is as distasteful and detrimental to Armenian revival as this supposed mythical phantom Joo. To this day, Armenia still lacks the true "hyaser" leader that we heard and read about in folklore.
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