politics

[arabaliozian]

Re: politics

TERMINAL**************************** We were subservient to sultans and commissars because we had no choice. We are now subservient to our bosses, bishops and benefactors because subservience is in our blood.* You cannot reason your way out of a terminal disease.*Writers from Abovian to Zarian did their utmost to change things. In the end it was “things” that changed them. Abovian committed suicide and Zarian died with the conviction he had been murdered.* “You have said this before!” The words of a reader whose unspoken message is: “Shut up!”#

[arabaliozian]

Re: politics

JUST A GUESS
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I wouldn’t be surprised if they said:
“Let’s do to our Armenians
what the Americans did to their Indians.”
But I would be surprised
if one of our revolutionaries said:
“What if they do to us
what the Americans did to their Indians?”
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[arabaliozian]

Re: politics

http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n79111476/

[arabaliozian]

Re: politics

S.O.S,
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Once upon a time we were slaves.
We are now slaves of former slaves
whose most important priority
is not the welfare of the people
but to please their masters.
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Victims and victimizers are alike
in the sense that they don’t have a history,
only predictable roles.
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Our political leaders are faceless puppets.
As for intellectual leaders:
they have been effectively eliminated.
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Intellectuals are like canaries in a mine.
When they fall silent,
disaster is sure to follow.
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If Zarian were alive today he would say:
“Danger, danger, danger!”
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[arabaliozian]

Re: politics

The tragedy of our genocide should not blind us to the incompetence, inexperience, and ignorance of our own leadership. To those who say, “In their place maybe you would have done a better job?” My answer is: Probably not but having blundered I wouldn’t expect future generations to look up at me as a role model!

[arabaliozian]

Re: politics

What we think of ourselves
is never the same as what others think of us.
In that sense we are not much different from the groupie
who once declared:
“I am not a groupie! I don’t have sex with the boys.
I don’t use my body. I only do blow jobs.”

[arabaliozian]

Re: politics

BIG LIES
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The Big Lie in all organized religions and ideologies
is their assertion of monopoly.
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The peculiarity of all Big lies is that
they work even when they are contradicted
by Bigger Lies.
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To be brainwashed means
to believe truth to be on your side.
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If I repeat myself it’s because
I don’t write, I pray.
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It has been observed that
when their eyes are opened,
the blind take refuge in darkness.
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Because we were taught to turn the other cheek,
we learned to drop our pants.
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[arabaliozian]

Re: politics

Armenian history is not written
but invented.

[arabaliozian]

Re: politics

No self-respecting Armenian believes
he is or has ever been brainwashable.

[arabaliozian]

Re: politics

ON LEADERSHIP
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Leadership plays a key role
in the life and death of nations.
Compare the fate of Jews in Germany
with that of Jews in Egypt
under the charismatic political leadership
of Moses. And now consider our own fate
at the turn of the last century
in the Ottoman Empire.
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Homo sapiens may also be defined
as a being incapable of learning from history.
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If we reject history as a useful tool of survival,
we condemn ourselves to systematic extermination
or the death of a thousand self-inflicted cuts.
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Our historians have betrayed us
by reducing the study of history
to perpetual lamentation.
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