3 explanations

[arabaliozian]

THREE EXPLANATIONS
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We are few and weak
not because of this or that valid
geopolitical reason but because
once upon a time we had leaders
who, unlike David of Sassoon and
Vartan Mamigonian, were successful
in convincing us we may have
a better chance to survive
if we drop our pants and bend over.
*
If we are few and our enemies many
it may be because our enemies
have produced fewer successful dividers.
*
I write to remind our 1%
that all their efforts
to systematically moronize us
have been successful only
up to a point.
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[lampron]

Re: 3 explanations

THREE EXPLANATIONS
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We are few and weak
not because of this or that valid
geopolitical reason but because
once upon a time we had leaders
who, unlike David of Sassoon and
Vartan Mamigonian, were successful
in convincing us we may have
a better chance to survive
if we drop our pants and bend over.
*

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We are not few but we are weak because an Armenian trusts a foreigner more than a fellow Armenian

When the Ottoman tribe arrived in Anatolia it is said they consisted of 30,000 herdsmen

The population of Armenia is estimated to have been 2 million

[arabaliozian]

Re: 3 explanations

GOOD NEWS
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More and more frequently now
some of my readers lecture me
by paraphrasing my own lectures.
I think we are going places.
*
On our self-appointed royalties
and miscellaneous dime-a-dozen megalomaniacs:
since we are not allowed to behead them,
let’s at least have a good laugh at their expense.
*
Power matters. Without power even dogs
will take you for a lamp post.
*
We are brought up to believe
Naregatsi is our Dante,
Cervantes and Shakespeare
all rolled into one.
But whereas the whole world reads
Shakespeare and Company,
who reads Naregatsi?
Not even Armenians!
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[arabaliozian]

Re: 3 explanations

ENEMIES
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Any day now it will be against the law
to identify our enemies
because all talk of enemies
will be classified as “hate speech.”
*
Turks: winners of two Nobel prizes…
*
When money takes over,
the nation goes under.
*
Let’s speak of God, by all means,
but let’s not pretend we will ever know
or understand Him.
*
The 1% have the money
as well as the right words.
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[lampron]

Re: 3 explanations

ENEMIES
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Turks: winners of two Nobel prizes…
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Ottoman camel herders in the 14th century are today winning Nobel prizes

Armenian monks and scholars in the 14th century today are.....?

[arabaliozian]

Re: 3 explanations

MORE QUESTIONS THAN ANSWERS
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Why is it that I know all there is is to know
about the Battle of Avarair and next to nothing
about our final confrontation with the enemy
that ushered in 600 years of subservience
that ended in genocide and exodus?
Did we we surrender without a fight?
Was there a fight?
How many elephants if any?
How many casualties?
Is it conceivable that it was both a military
as well as a moral defeat?
Am I right in assuming that as a nation
we suffer from selective memory loss?
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[arabaliozian]

Re: 3 explanations

NOTES / COMMENTS
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Men and history in general
are shaped more by ignorance and prejudice
than knowledge and understanding.
*
Because I have no illusions
about my fellow countrymen
I prefer to live as far away from them
as possible.
*
To those who tell me
I should adopt Saroyan
as my role model,
may I remind them, when in Detroit,
Saroyan was invited to visit
an Armenian community center,
he said “No, thanks!”
*
They are as reluctant to admit responsibility
as we are to admit incompetence.
*
What is the difference between
a Kemalist and a Stalinist?
Are they not both descendants of Cain?
*
Who reads me?
Not the average Armenian
who is convinced he knows better
as surely as I am convinced
he is a self-satisfied dupe
and an ignoramus.
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[arabaliozian]

Re: 3 explanations

NOTES / COMMENTS
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A nation of victims
will have more than its share
of imaginary heroes.
*
We live in chains
and we are set free by death.
*
To the perpetrators of genocide
the world becomes a hostile environment.
*
Two of the most unbelievable occurrences in life:
sunrise and sunset.
*
The trick in justice is
getting a better lawyer than your adversary.
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[arabaliozian]

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TOYNBEE ON ARMENIANS
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Toynbee never denied the reality of the Genocide.
That doesn’t make him an Armenophle.
In his STUDY OF HISTORY he classified Armenians
as “fossils, meaning brain dead.
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THE AUTHENTIC YOU
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That which is the authentic you
is hidden from you
but clearly visible to all others.
*
ON LIFE
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Life is a battle we are destined to lose.
*
THE SECRET OF SUCCESS
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A successful writer is one
who writes what they want to read.
You may now guess what makes a failure.
*
A NOTEWORTHY DISTINCTION
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In a review of an Arabic work of fiction
I run into the following phrase:
“…a real powerful Diaspora,
but hardly a community…”
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