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  • arabaliozian
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    wolves

    Monday, March 23, 2015
    ***************************************
    WOLVES
    ***********************
    Anonymous: “A man is another man’s wolf.”
    *
    Once when I said Baronian had been betrayed
    to the Ottoman police by some of his readers,
    an angry reader commented:
    “What did he expect
    after making cruel fun of them?”
    This reader never asked himself:
    What if Baronian was right
    and those he ridiculed wrong?
    *
    Another question:
    Is the function of literature
    to flatter the ego of swine?
    *
    To paraphrase another popular saying:
    “You may take an Armenian
    out of the Ottoman Empire but
    you cannot take the Ottoman Empire
    out of an Armenian.”
    *
    Sometimes it’s pointed out to me that
    I too go too far. Things are bad enough,
    why make them look worse?
    No one wonders:
    What if things are in fact worse?
    In what way a “white” massacre
    is morally superior to a “red” one?
    What if an Armenian is really
    a Turk to another Armenian?
    What if they didn’t see
    the Writing on the Wall
    because they were morally blind?
    *
    What about us today?
    Do we have 20/20 vision?
    #

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  • arabaliozian
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    as i see it

    AS I SEE IT
    *****************************
    Most of my life I was on the wrong path.
    Today I am in a better position to hope
    that someday I may be in a better position
    not to be taken by false prophets and messiahs.
    *
    Believers are dupes.
    That doesn’t mean non-believers are
    closer to the truth.
    *
    We all share the same enemy
    and his name is truth.
    *
    Losers speak more than winners
    and their unspoken aim is to cover up
    the reality of their status as losers.
    *
    I don’t take myself as seriously
    as my critics do.
    #

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  • arabaliozian
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    comments

    FROM MY NOTEBOOKS
    **********************************
    One reason why we remain divided is that
    we have been taught to believe
    the survival of our leadership
    is more important than
    the survival of the nation.
    *
    To believe in politicians and theologians
    is to trust the judgment of compulsive
    and habitual liars.
    *
    The Turkish political machine
    has created as many lies
    as its Armenian counterpart.
    *
    A few months ago one of our bishops
    was posthumously exposed as a KGB agent.
    I was not surprised.
    Man is capable of doing anything
    for a second regular salary.
    *
    When lawyers enter, justice exits.
    *
    My blunders have been my best teachers,
    *
    Reality is unpredictable
    because it has more legs than a millipede.
    #

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  • arabaliozian
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    as i see it

    AS I SEE IT
    ***********************************
    Our leadership played a central role
    in our history by following a script
    written by our enemies
    and false friends.
    *
    If I am predictable
    it may be because I write
    what you think.
    *
    Our 1% pretend I don’t exist
    and I pretend they don’t read me.
    *
    They tell me I don’t qualify
    as an Armenian writer
    because I write in English.
    My question: Who in his right mind
    would freely choose to be an Armenian writer?
    My answer: Only a total ignoramus
    who has not read the biography
    of a single Armenian writer.
    *
    Hired assassins would be busier
    if they were within the income bracket
    of the middle and lower classes.
    #

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  • arabaliozian
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    on popularity

    POPULAR IDEAS
    ********************************
    Three ideas that are popular
    with children and retarded adults:
    (1) Taking one’s own assessment of oneself
    seriously;
    (2) Thinking nationalist propaganda
    was formulated by honest men; and
    (3) Our political leadership is morally
    and intellectually superior
    to that of our enemies.
    *
    We owe the popularity of belief systems
    and ideologies to a small army
    of hidden persuaders and hirelings
    who operate anonymously
    and under cover of darkness.
    *
    Let’s give the devil his due:
    I owe my survival to my mediocrity.
    Had a been a better writer,
    I would have been buried by men
    who are on better terms
    with God and capital --
    make it Capital and god –
    than I am.
    #

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  • arabaliozian
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    status

    STATUS QUO
    *******************************
    There are two kinds of people:
    the swine and those who are dependent on them.
    *
    Some of the most repellent, sinister,
    and dangerous swine in the history of mankind
    enjoyed majority support:
    Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, Mao,
    Genghis Khan, Tamerlane, Talaat…
    *
    Democracies are pseudo-democracies.
    *
    Propaganda flatters, truth repels.
    I don’t write to be popular.
    I consider the alternative more to my taste.
    *
    The secret ambition of the 99% is join the 1%
    in the same way that the secret ambition of all victims
    is to be victimizers.
    *
    There is nothing new in what I am saying.
    The Romans used to say
    “Man is wolf to other men.”
    In time of war, yes.
    In time of peace, they are swine.
    #

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  • arabaliozian
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    comments

    NOTES / COMMENTS
    *****************************
    To say to a writer
    “We will support you if you adopt our ideology,”
    is to adopt Stalin as a role model.
    *
    Raymond Chandler:
    “I was listening to Khachaturian
    working in a tractor factory.
    He called it a violin concerto.
    I called it a loose fan belt
    and the hell with it.”
    *
    You cannot argue with someone
    who is in a position to silence you.
    He has much more to lose
    than an argument.
    He stands to lose his infallibility.
    And no one can make an ass of himself
    as surely as he who thinks himself
    to be infallible.
    #

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  • arabaliozian
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    confession

    CONFESSION
    *****************************
    Two reasons why I am an authentic Armenian:
    (1) My most lethal wounds were self-inflicted and
    (2) I inflicted them because I thought
    I could do no wrong.
    *
    There you have: our history in a nutshell.
    *
    TWO QUESTIONS
    *****************************
    Has anyone ever divided a nation
    with the consent of the people?
    *
    Where would wars and massacres be
    without the brainwashed?
    *
    WARNING
    ***********************
    In the eyes of the 1%
    the 99% are white trash.
    *
    At one point in their history
    the French decided
    the only good king
    was a headless king.
    *
    SILENCE
    ***************************
    There comes a time in every music-lover’s life
    when silence becomes the most desirable sound.
    #

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  • arabaliozian
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    comments

    NOTES / COMMENTS
    ********************************
    At all times and everywhere
    brainwashed dupes outnumber those
    who have mastered the art
    of thinking for themselves.
    *
    There is a big difference between
    god and the god of priests,
    so much so that if the two ever met
    they wouldn’t recognize each other.
    *
    The temptation to take oneself seriously
    can be irresistible.
    *
    When I write for Armenians
    I can never get rid of the suspicion
    that I am wasting my time
    and with every line I write
    I make another enemy.
    #

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