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Originally posted by jgm1975
I definitely agree with this. A very lucid post, might I add. Indeed, factionalism exists in all peoples, however, that is not what we meant, and thank you for pointing it out. It is when factionalism becomes the rule and not the exception and hinders on the cultural development of that people. Obviously, Armenians have never really had any sort of unity, and infighting has always existed, but as we said, every nation has this, and only when it moves to become the rule and not the exception, should we panic.
However, to point out something else which your first point got me thinking about, it is imperative that Armenians take heed of the fact that no nations are alike. Only then will Armenians understand, just like non-Armenians, the things that are at stake in this century. No two nations or cultures are alike, ever. Every culture and every nation, just like every race and individual that produced it throughout the ant hills of time, has differed, because cultures are organic and contain a soul, and are merely reflections and expressions of peoples that create them. This knowledge is simple, but profound, and is therefore shut off from the inward appreciation of all but a few. It is a modern pastime of academia to exclude this information from individuals, and teach nothing more that history is a morally unambiguous conflict between "good" and "evil", and "everyone is the same".
In this argument flow all the consequences of the necessary historical outlook of the coming times and the current paradigm of the 21st century, the dissolution of Western culture. Since a culture is organic, it has an individuality, and a soul. Thus it cannot be influenced in its depths from any outside force. It has a destiny, like all organisms. It has a period of birth, has a growth, a maturity, fulfillment, a death. Because it has a soul, all of its manifestations will be marked by the same spiritual stamp, just as each man's life is the creation of his own individuality.
Because a culture has a soul, this particular culture can never again exist after it has passed through the temporal zone. Like the nations it creates to express phases of its own life, it exists only once. There will never be another Cherokee culture, another Aztect culture, or Mayan culture, no Classical culture, or Western culture, or Armenian culture, any more than there will be a second Roman nation, French nation, English nation, or Japanese nation. Since a culture is organic, it has a life-span, just like man. Cheers.
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