THE BLAME-GAME
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The source of our degeneration?
Bad company – Romans, Byzantines, Persians,
Arabs, Tatars, Mongols, Ottomans, Bolsheviks…
bloodthirsty, warlike savages all –
murderers, rapists, thieves…
the worst kind of riffraff that ever lived.
We were corrupted by the kind of people
we were warned to avoid as children.
Deep, very deep down, we are la crème de la crème!
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If you believe that, you will believe anything!
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For an entirely different version of the story,
read Khorenatsi’s LAMENTATION
which was written in our so-called Golden Age.
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And now listen to Toynbee:
“In the life which Man has made for himself on Earth,
his institutions, in contrast to his personal relations,
are the veritable slums,
and the taint of moral obliquity is still more distressing
in the least ignoble of these social tenements
of the Human Spirit – for instance, in the churches
and the academies –
than in such unquestionably malignant institutions
as Slavery and War.”
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Translated into dollars and cents:
Don’t blame outsiders;
blame your own best and brightest!
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The source of our degeneration?
Bad company – Romans, Byzantines, Persians,
Arabs, Tatars, Mongols, Ottomans, Bolsheviks…
bloodthirsty, warlike savages all –
murderers, rapists, thieves…
the worst kind of riffraff that ever lived.
We were corrupted by the kind of people
we were warned to avoid as children.
Deep, very deep down, we are la crème de la crème!
*
If you believe that, you will believe anything!
*
For an entirely different version of the story,
read Khorenatsi’s LAMENTATION
which was written in our so-called Golden Age.
*
And now listen to Toynbee:
“In the life which Man has made for himself on Earth,
his institutions, in contrast to his personal relations,
are the veritable slums,
and the taint of moral obliquity is still more distressing
in the least ignoble of these social tenements
of the Human Spirit – for instance, in the churches
and the academies –
than in such unquestionably malignant institutions
as Slavery and War.”
*
Translated into dollars and cents:
Don’t blame outsiders;
blame your own best and brightest!
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