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  • #11
    Re: alpha males

    Q/A
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    Q: What have we learned from history?
    A: Nothing!
    *
    Q: What has the Genocide taught us?
    A: Nothing!
    *
    Q: If genocide can teach us nothing, what can?
    A: Good question.
    *
    Kemal may be right:
    Turks did not slaughter Armenians;
    It was a confrontation between Muslim Turks
    and Christian Turks.
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    • #12
      Re: alpha males

      Were we blind?
      Can we really say
      our sight has been restored?

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      • #13
        Re: alpha males

        CONTROL FREAKS
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        One of our archbishops once asked me
        to prepare an English-language anthology
        of Armenian literature
        on condition that he will have final say
        on its contents.
        *
        On another occasion
        one of our cultural foundations
        informed me they were willing to support
        my work as translator on condition they decide
        what to translate and what not to translate.
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        • #14
          Re: alpha males

          For every expert who says one thing
          there will be another who will contradict him.
          Is our understanding of our history
          as taught to us by our own historians honest and objective?
          What about American, English, French, German,
          or Turkish history as taught by their own respective historians?

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          • #15
            Re: alpha males

            An Armenian is never as smart as he thinks he is. But that's not his real problem. His real problem is that he is incapable of imagining how unspeakably stupid he can be.

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            • #16
              Re: alpha males

              OUR BETTERS
              *******************************
              Heine's definition of aristocrats: “Asses who talk about horses.”
              We don't have aristocrats. What we have are empty suits with money; and in our environment money doesn't just talk, it sings like Pavarotti even when it brays like an ass.

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              • #17
                Re: alpha males

                “He is nuts!”
                I once overheard one of our elder statesmen
                say of another – both members of the same political party.
                Which may suggest we are not just divided but also subdivided.
                Even our divisions have divisions.
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                • #18
                  Re: alpha males

                  “Russia today is ruled by petro-kleptocrats.”
                  Ditto with us, minus the “petro.”

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                  • #19
                    Re: alpha males

                    Gellner on tradition:
                    "...bullsh*t, servility, vested interests, arbitrariness, empty ritual" --

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                    • #20
                      Re: alpha males

                      Wednesday, June 29, 2016
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                      Judge a man by his actions
                      and a nation by its history.
                      *
                      Far from bring one of the smartest people on earth,
                      we may well be one of the dumbest.
                      *
                      “Armenians are not as bad as you paint them.”
                      I agree. They may well be worse.
                      *
                      The only reason I am not drowning in hate mail is that
                      I have unfriended 99% of my readers.
                      *
                      Memo to my Turkish friends:
                      Terrorism victimizes the innocent.
                      So does genocide.
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