alpha males

[arabaliozian]

Non-believers who build churches,
pirates who collect art,
fornicators who preach chastity --
what I find even more offensive about our alpha males is their conviction that they are indispensable to the nation and not even remotely responsible for our misfortunes.
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[arabaliozian]

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I don't mention names because I don't want to immortalize nonentities who make headlines today and are forgotten tomorrow.

[arabaliozian]

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Kant [on the difference between ignorance and stupidity]: “There is no cure for stupidity.”

[arabaliozian]

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WHY
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Why was Socrates condemned to death,
Christ crucified and Gandhi assassinated?
My only answer:
There is something fundamentally wrong
with Homo sapiens, and no matter how hard we try
to understand that “something”
we are destined to fail.
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We like to say that if we somehow succeeded
in surviving a long string of ruthless
and bloodthirsty foreign tyrants
and our own incompetent and corrupt idiots
pretending to be leaders of men,
we are bound to survive to the end of time.
The question we should ask at this point is:
If we survive, will we survive as men
or as cadavers walking like men?
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[arabaliozian]

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As a child I was taught obedience but I was not warned against kissing ass.

[arabaliozian]

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There is a type of patriotism that gives patriotism a bad name. Example: patriotism that is an extension of one's salary. I once knew a full-time patriotic propagandist who asked for a raise, was refused, and was never heard from again.

[arabaliozian]

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NOTES / COMMENTS
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If Trump survives all the insults
leveled against him
he deserves to be not only President
of the United States
but also Pope of Rome.
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It is said of one of our benefactors
(may he rest in peace)
whenever he shook hands with a poet,
the poet gained $1000,
literature nothing.
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Was Kemal right in Latinizing
the Turkish alphabet?
I don’t know.
All I know is that it worked.
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The difference between our gods
and all other gods is that
ours are always thirsty.
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[arabaliozian]

Re: alpha males

Our bosses, bishops, and benefactors operate on the assumption
that if they flatter us enough
we will express our gratitude
by not questioning their competence;
and so far it has worked.
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[arabaliozian]

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Some people fully deserve to be treated
the way Samuel Johnson suggested we deal with cucumbers:
“…sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and thrown out
as good for nothing.”

[arabaliozian]

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In the eyes of compulsive liars,
speaking the truth is classified as heresy.