how long?

[arabaliozian]

HOW LONG?
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To write what you think,
what you really think, is important.
But even more important is to write
what everybody else thinks.
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We are all for free speech
but who among us dares to say
what must be said?
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What stands in our way is less ignorance
and more a conscious decision
not to antagonize our sources of income.
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It took mankind centuries to say
the only good king is a headless king.
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It took many more centuries to say
to work for a living is to be in chains,
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When will we dare to say
if it’s not Abdulhamid it’s Talaat.
if it’s not Talaat it’s Stalin,
and if it’s not Stalin
it’s our bosses, bishops and benefactors?
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[arabaliozian]

Re: how long?

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.

[arabaliozian]

Re: how long?

Giambattista Vico: “Crowded city life produces men who are unbelievers, who regard money as the measure of all things, and who lack moral qualities, particularly modesty…. Emancipated from ethics generally, they live by mutual spying and deceit.”#