politics

[arabaliozian]

Re: politics

Sunday, July 31, 2016
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HOW TO FIX WALL STREET
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Penalize those who make vast fortunes
while others go bankrupt.
Moderate greed may be useful,
but excessive greed fully qualifies as
“cruel and unusual punishment” on underdogs.
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BIOLOGY MATTERS
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There are no Armenians, only part-Turks;
or, in American Negro parlance “Oreos” --
black on the outside, white on the inside;
or in our case, Armenian on the outside,
Turk on the inside.
To say otherwise is to rate
propaganda above biology.
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[arabaliozian]

Re: politics

To be the slave of former slaves is not freedom.

[arabaliozian]

Re: politics

According to some psychologists, the compulsion to speak the truth is neurotic. By contrast, the compulsion to lie is a survival tactic and as such in no need of psychiatric treatment.

[arabaliozian]

Re: politics

Stendhal: “All my life I have always seen what I imagined rather than reality.” *There is an element of wishful thinking in all thinking. Propagandists know this and do their utmost to exploit it, and the more successful they are, the greater the distance between us and reality.#

[arabaliozian]

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Greek saying: "He who wants too much, will lose even the little that he has."

[arabaliozian]

Re: politics

Stanislaw Lec: "Is it progress if a cannibal uses knife and fork?"

[arabaliozian]

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Never, never say to an Armenian writer, "It's easy for you to say." Only readers who know nothing about the history of our literature are capable of uttering such nonsense. Being a writer, being an Armenian writer, being an honest Armenian writer has never been easy. As a boy, my elders repeatedly warned me of this, but I ignored them. Which goes to show that idealism can lead one to hell as surely as a life of crime.
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[arabaliozian]

Re: politics

Monday, July 18, 2016
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EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED
TO EVERYTHING ELSE
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On the radio this morning,
recent studies show that
computers erode our understanding
of reality and history.
Nationalist historians have been eroding
our understanding of history
long before the advent of computers.
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On Blacks murdering White cops:
We will never understand it
if we fail to connect these murders
to the degradation and pain of slavery.
If so far Obama has failed
to make this connection it’s because
he doesn’t want to be accused
of justifying these killings.
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On ISIS and the rise of terrorism:
Americans are to blame, of course,
but it is also useful to remember that
Muslims have been killing Muslims
as well as infidels long before Columbus
discovered America.
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[arabaliozian]

Re: politics

Monday, July 18, 2016
****************************
EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED
TO EVERYTHING ELSE
***************************************
On the radio this morning,
recent studies show that
computers erode our understanding
of reality and history.
Nationalist historians have been eroding
our understanding of history
long before the advent of computers.
*
On Blacks murdering White cops:
We will never understand it
if we fail to connect these murders
to the degradation and pain of slavery.
If so far Obama has failed
to make this connection it’s because
he doesn’t want to be accused
of justifying these killings.
*
On ISIS and the rise of terrorism:
Americans are to blame, of course,
but it is also useful to remember that
Muslims have been killing Muslims
as well as infidels long before Columbus
discovered America.
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[arabaliozian]

Re: politics

PROBLEM SOLVED
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To readers who demand solutions from me,
I ask: How many problems
did our writers from Abovian to Zarian,
or for that matter, from Khorenatsi to Naregatsi,
solve?
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Our problems will never be solved
as long as we are at the mercy of charlatans
who pretend to believe
the solutions of our problems
are well hidden from us.
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Speaking of solutions, here is one:
Why do we need two
and sometimes even three of everything
when one may well be more than enough?
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