crackpots

[arabaliozian]

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From our millionaires, we want money.
From our bishops, constant reminders of our moral superiority.
From our fund-raisers, declarations of our generosity.
From our people, credulity.
From our writers, flattery.
From our critics, silence.
Armenians are complex and unpredictable?
Nonsense!
We are more predictable than Pavlov's salivating canines.

[arabaliozian]

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FOOLS
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It has been said that if you deal with fools
you run the risk of becoming one.
Is this a scientifically established fact
or a theory of uncertain provenance?
I don’t know. I am not sure.
Speaking for myself, I am personally acquainted with a Turcocentric ghazetaji
who, when contradicted, behaves like a Turk
with total unawareness of the metamorphosis.

[arabaliozian]

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Tuesday, September 13, 2016
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INSANITY
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The very same Armenians
who are eager to inform me
I don’t qualify as an Armenian writer
because I write in English brag about the fact
that Saroyan and Arlen are Armenian.
*
Insanity comes naturally to man.
Insanity is the norm.
We owe all wars, revolutions, massacres,
and such spectacular instances of injustice
as the execution of Socrates
and the crucifixion of Christ
to an essentially insane social order.
*
Armenian genocide?
No such thing.
Armeno-Turkish genocide?
That’s better!
*
The brotherhood of all men?
An illusion. A myth. A good subject
for sermonizers and speechifiers.
Cain and Abel?
A brief history of mankind.
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[arabaliozian]

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An Armenian leader whose number one priority
is not uniting the nation should be declared a gravedigger.

[arabaliozian]

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Kachaturian in music, Zarian in literature. If the first is better known it’s because he wrote dances and lullabies. #armenians *

[arabaliozian]

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My primary aim here is not to expose our blunders
or to cover up the criminal conduct of the
perpetrators, but to emphasize the fact that we
have been and continue to be a far greater threat
to our own survival than our worst enemies.
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[arabaliozian]

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After urging me to change my last name, a friend delivered the following comment: “As long as you bear a Turkish surname, you admit to having been branded by them.” *And I thought: If only it were that easy to erase six centuries of subservience and all traces of Ottomanism by acquiring a new name!#

[arabaliozian]

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Why do dogs fight?
Wrong question.
The right question is
How come dog fighting is against the law but war is not?

[arabaliozian]

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Thursday, September 15, 2016
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ISLAMOPHOBIA
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We are told Islamophobia
is racist nonsense.
What we are not told is that
no one in his right mind
could be for sharia and jihad.
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[arabaliozian]

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INFANTILISM
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When I was a child I believed everything I was
told. I had no reason to question the authority
of my elders. If they had told me to kill and die
in the name of a cause I would have obeyed. Since
I could not think for myself I confused
subservience with wisdom. I suppose all fanatics
could plead not guilty by reason of infantilism.
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