politics

[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

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

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

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

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

[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

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

REFLECTIONS
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It can truly be said of us that
when at the turn of the last century
we refused to quit the Ottoman Empire,
events proved us wrong.
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Brainwashed dupes make ferocious critics.
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With us, logic and common sense
have never been a central concern.
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[arabaliozian]

Re: politics

I am against dividers because I believe “all men are brothers” (and I don't mean like Cain and Abel); and when I say “all men” I include Turks. It is a mistake to think of Turks as Turks. I doubt if there is a single Turk alive today. Turks are a mixture of Greeks, Albanians, Macedonians, Bulgarians, Assyrians, Iranians, Arabs, Jews, and Armenians, among others. Something similar could be said of Armenians. As for Armenians who claim the Bagratunis and Mamikonians as their ancestors: Bagratunis identified themselves as Jews, and Khorenatsi identified the Mamikonians as Chinese. Speaking for myself: I have at no time hidden the fact that, on a good day, I can trace my ancestry all the way back to my father.
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[arabaliozian]

Re: politics

SITUATION / xxxxUATION
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We like to say and believe
we are products of the Christian West,
when in fact we have been shaped
by Ottomanism in the Middle East,
Stalinism in the USSR, and
Capitalism in America.
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If it’s not the Almighty Sultan
it’s the Almighty Kremlin and
the Almighty Dollar.
Democracy, fundamental human rights,
free speech: they remain distant dreams
and unattainable goals.
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The rest is propaganda
whose sole aim is
to flatter our collective ego.
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