Re: 101
Thursday, March 28, 2013
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WHEN I THOUGHT I KNEW
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When I thought I knew,
I didn’t!
*
State a problem clearly
and its solution will fall on your lap.
*
When it comes to solving our problems
we may well be just about
the dumbest people on earth.
*
In an anti-intellectual environment
to call someone an intellectual is the same
as identifying him as a mental masturbator,
a parasite, and a daydreamer
who knows nothing about real life.
An Armenian may identify himself as a professor
or an academic, but only a retard
will call himself an intellectual.
To those of my readers
who dismiss me as an intellectual
I therefore say, one does not have to be an intellectual,
a vodanavorji, or anything else for that matter
to recognize a jackass when he sees one.
*
To those who say “I know what I need to know,”
I say: Knowledge is not and cannot be a final product
but a work in progress.
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Friday, March 29, 2013
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WHAT IF OUR BETTERS
ARE OUR WORST?
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The problem with a drug addict
is not his addiction
but his refusal to kick the habit.
Likewise, our problem is not
the absence of solutions
but the rejection of all solutions,
one of them being solidarity.
*
Next time you hear someone parrot the line
“what we need is solutions,”
you may classify him
as a habitual and compulsive liar.
*
More often than not we are not deceived;
we consent to be deceived.
We are brought up to believe we are smart
to cover up our status as dupes of idiots.
*
We believe our “betters” to be la crčme de la crčme
when in fact they are la crčme de la scum.
#
Saturday, March 30, 2013
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ON CROOKS AND LIARS
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An honest man cannot solve the problems of a crook.
Neither can he solve the problems of a nation
run by crooks.
Which may explain why our literature
has failed to solve a single problem,
prevent a single death,
expose a single liar.
*
Between an unprofitable truth and profitable lies,
most men will choose lies.
This may explain why nationalist historians
outnumber the others a thousand to one.
*
To write about crooks and liars means
never to run out of things to say.
*
My ambition: to say things nobody says
and everybody thinks.
*
Like the last Ottoman sultans
who had a thousand concubines in their harems,
the average propagandist has a thousand lies.
You want proof?
Think the opposite of what a speechifier says
and you may see more sense there.
#
Thursday, March 28, 2013
****************************************
WHEN I THOUGHT I KNEW
**************************************
When I thought I knew,
I didn’t!
*
State a problem clearly
and its solution will fall on your lap.
*
When it comes to solving our problems
we may well be just about
the dumbest people on earth.
*
In an anti-intellectual environment
to call someone an intellectual is the same
as identifying him as a mental masturbator,
a parasite, and a daydreamer
who knows nothing about real life.
An Armenian may identify himself as a professor
or an academic, but only a retard
will call himself an intellectual.
To those of my readers
who dismiss me as an intellectual
I therefore say, one does not have to be an intellectual,
a vodanavorji, or anything else for that matter
to recognize a jackass when he sees one.
*
To those who say “I know what I need to know,”
I say: Knowledge is not and cannot be a final product
but a work in progress.
#
Friday, March 29, 2013
************************************
WHAT IF OUR BETTERS
ARE OUR WORST?
**************************************
The problem with a drug addict
is not his addiction
but his refusal to kick the habit.
Likewise, our problem is not
the absence of solutions
but the rejection of all solutions,
one of them being solidarity.
*
Next time you hear someone parrot the line
“what we need is solutions,”
you may classify him
as a habitual and compulsive liar.
*
More often than not we are not deceived;
we consent to be deceived.
We are brought up to believe we are smart
to cover up our status as dupes of idiots.
*
We believe our “betters” to be la crčme de la crčme
when in fact they are la crčme de la scum.
#
Saturday, March 30, 2013
***************************************
ON CROOKS AND LIARS
*********************************
An honest man cannot solve the problems of a crook.
Neither can he solve the problems of a nation
run by crooks.
Which may explain why our literature
has failed to solve a single problem,
prevent a single death,
expose a single liar.
*
Between an unprofitable truth and profitable lies,
most men will choose lies.
This may explain why nationalist historians
outnumber the others a thousand to one.
*
To write about crooks and liars means
never to run out of things to say.
*
My ambition: to say things nobody says
and everybody thinks.
*
Like the last Ottoman sultans
who had a thousand concubines in their harems,
the average propagandist has a thousand lies.
You want proof?
Think the opposite of what a speechifier says
and you may see more sense there.
#
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