kiss of death

[arabaliozian]

THE KISS OF DEATH
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From a very early age
i was taught to respect my elders.
It took me a while to realize
that respect meant subservience,
and subservience meant not only
subservience to bosses, bishops
and benefactors but also to their
hirelings, flunkeys, hangers on and
assorted parasites.
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In short, respect meant
subservience to xxxxs.
Which is why I now feel justified
in asserting that
for a writer
to enjoy the support
of a boss, bishops and benefactor
is the kiss of death.
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[arabaliozian]

Re: kiss of death

ON SUPERIORITY
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During an argument with a poet,
one of our benefactors is quoted as having said:
“I hire and fire people like you.”
Thus implying the ability to hire and fire
must be just about the surest expression
not only of financial but also
of moral and intellectual superiority.
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When Tarzan said to Jane
“It’s a jungle out there,”
he knew what he was saying.
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We can change nothing.
The best we can do is identify our enemies
and, whenever possible, take evasive action.
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After countless speeches and sermons
man has remained as savage a beast as on the day
Cain dealt with Abel
and man classified himself as Homo sapiens.
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Judge a man by his actions, not by his doubletalk.
If only our leadership had done as much
on the eve of the Genocide.
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[arabaliozian]

Re: kiss of death

ON LEADERSHIP
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As a child I identified myself with our leaders
because I was told to do so. But the moment I
started thinking for myself I saw them as
megalomaniacal mediocrities and enemies of
freedom, common sense and decency.
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[arabaliozian]

Re: kiss of death

Politics seems to attract the kind of people whose role model is not Gandhi but Don Corleone.

[arabaliozian]

Re: kiss of death

FIRST THINGS FIRST
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We have money for schools and churches,
but no money for literature.
That’s because schoolteachers and priests
make themselves useful
by preparing a new generation
of brainwashed dupes.
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It is extremely difficult to explain something
to someone who is convinced
he knows better because he is smarter.
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Our past plays a more important role in our lives
than our present and future.
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If you make an Armenian enemy
you make an enemy for life.
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If I know better it’s because
I have been consistently wrong.
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The function of bureaucracy
is to inflict pain without any feeling of responsibility.
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I knew much more when I was an ignoramus.
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[arabaliozian]

Re: kiss of death

Describe someone as objectively as you can and he will consider it the worst insult that anyone has ever inflicted on him.

[arabaliozian]

Re: kiss of death

IF…
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If you speak the truth
don’t expect to be popular
among habitual liars and their dupes.
*
There is only one way to survive
the degradation of 600 years
and that’s by assimilating their values.
Consider our treatment of writers
from Abovian to Zarian,
and remember Baruir Massikian
in his death bed rating a Cairo bordello
above an Armenian educational foundation.
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I suspect all undertakings
from which only the leaders survive.
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[lampron]

Re: kiss of death

IF…
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I suspect all undertakings
from which only the leaders survive.
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A case in point - the Armenians who in 1896 seized the ottoman bank and then escaped to France, are remembered as heroes

The thousands of Armenians who the ottomans massacred in retaliation - their names no-one knows or remembers!

[Eddo211]

Re: kiss of death

Thousands is nothing compared to what we have lost. There has been massacres everywhere........not all can be remembered thanks to Turks assimilation policy and excuse for revenge to behead every Armenian within site, rape their women, kill their kids.

[arabaliozian]

Re: kiss of death

POWER
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Empires are not born but made
and what makes them
is an insatiable thirst for blood.
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As a defeated and conquered nation
(or collection of tribes)
we never quite understood
the amount of blood empires
are willing to drink to quench
their thirst for power.
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Why is it that a so-called civilized
and democratic nation like the United States
continues to deny the reality
of the Genocide?
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Even more to the point:
Why is it that our own leaders
(or bosses, bishops and benefactors)
continue to divide us
when they know solidarity is
the only solution to all our problems
including avoidance or prevention of
“white massacre” or
self-inflicted genocide?

The only conceivable answer to that question
must be: greed for power is more powerful
than fear of death and God combined.
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