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Q/A
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Q: What have we learned from history?
A: Nothing!
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Q: What has the Genocide taught us?
A: Nothing!
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Q: If genocide can teach us nothing, what can?
A: Good question.
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Kemal may be right:
Turks did not slaughter Armenians;
It was a confrontation between Muslim Turks
and Christian Turks.
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Were we blind?
Can we really say
our sight has been restored?

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

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

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