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  • #71
    Re: politics

    How many of my readers, I wonder, are familiarwith the name of Artin Dadian? -- a prominentmember of the Ottoman Administration under SultanAbdulhamid II, who wrote the following letter toour revolutionaries in 1898: "I suggest that today we exercise nothing butpatience and tolerance. First, Europe showscomplete indifference and says there is noArmenian question as far as they are concerned.Second, the threat of the complete annihilationof the Armenian nation has not yet entirelypassed, and third, the people are tired ofrevolutionary deeds and are ready to patch uptheir differences with the government in order toremain safe from further terrible events as havealmost wiped out our people from the face of theearth. Fourth, various organizations are fightingdifferent causes, each in their own way, and inthe middle of all this stands one pitiful ArtinDadian, who on the one hand begs the Sultan formercy by telling him that this would be the bestthing for his empire and on the other hand fightsbase individuals who in order to attain theirselfish aims are even willing to sell theirnation. I believe it will be proper, as I havementioned countless times before, for our peopleto patch up their differences with theSultan."(*)
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    (*)See THE ROLE OF THE DADIAN FAMILY IN OTTOMAN,SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, AND POLITICAL LIFE by Pars Tuglaci (Istanbul, 1993). #

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    • #72
      Re: politics

      Monday, October 10, 2016
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      FROM MY NOTEBOOKS
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      Maimonides: “Astrology is a disease
      not a science.”
      *
      Peter Gay on Heidegger: “He gave no one reason
      not to be a Nazi, & good reasons for being one.”
      *
      To write for Armenians means
      to write for readers who know better.
      *
      The American character was shaped not by
      “All men are created equal,”
      but by slavery, racism, discrimination
      & “In gold we trust.”
      #

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      • #73
        Re: politics

        Simone Weil (1909-1943), French philosopher: "I
        would suggest that barbarism be considered as a
        permanent and universal human characteristic
        which becomes more or less pronounced according
        to the play of circumstances."

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        • #74
          Re: politics

          Originally posted by arabaliozian View Post
          Monday, October 10, 2016
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          FROM MY NOTEBOOKS
          *******************************
          *
          The American character was shaped not by
          “All men are created equal,”
          but by slavery, racism, discrimination
          & “In gold we trust.”
          #
          How much of the Armenian character, that existed in the distant past
          has been washed away by 600 years of ottomanism?

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          • #75
            Re: politics

            Saturday, October 15, 2016
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            SENTENCES
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            Speechifiers and sermonizers are hirelings.
            They believe nothing they say.
            *
            Politicians and the 1% are natural born
            co-conspirators.
            *
            New taxes means new loopholes.
            *
            We, the people, are sardines in a pool of sharks.
            *
            Democracy is a charade.
            *
            Clinton & Trump might as well be Siamese.
            #

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            • #76
              Re: politics

              Originally posted by arabaliozian View Post
              The rule is, if a politician and historian agree, they must be both wrong.
              Armenian intellectuals, political party leaders and church leaders especially during the decades of the Cold war believed that "history" would correct all past injustices in the world and therefore there was little they they could do to alter the course of such a powerful universal force as "history", except carry on as normal and simply, wait

              Any merit in holding such a belief?

              Has this philosophy been updated?

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              • #77
                Re: politics

                I am not saying we should forgive and forget -
                only a saint can do that and none of us
                qualifies. What I am saying is that I want to
                live my life without reference to Turks and the
                hope that some day they may see the light.
                #

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                • #78
                  Re: politics

                  Henceforth, we should concentrate our efforts on
                  humanizing the Turks as opposed to dehumanizing
                  them, if only because we cannot make any moral
                  demands on a dehumanized entity.

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                  • #79
                    Re: politics

                    Tuesday, October 18, 2016
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                    AS I SEE IT
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                    A war produces two sets of liars
                    one of which identify themselves
                    as winners.
                    *
                    Democracy may or may not be the best system
                    but in the short run it may well qualify as the safest.
                    *
                    Once when a reader disagreed with me
                    he called me “son of a Turkish xxxxx.”
                    I could not help reflecting that
                    he probably identifies himself
                    as the offspring of a long line of virgins.
                    #

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                    • #80
                      Re: politics

                      My enemies are my most faithful readers.
                      They know they are the central character in everything I write.

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