notes and comments

[arabaliozian]

Re: elegy

WRITERS
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The role of a writer in the life of our communities
is somewhere below that of an unemployed janitor,
with one difference: a janitor’s prospects are brighter.

[arabaliozian]

Re: elegy

ON LEADERSHIP
*******************************
The most important function of leadership is
to prove itself infallible even if the patient died.
*
When Toynbee said the only thing
the Israeli leadership appears to have learned
from the Holocaust was to behave like Nazis,
the xxxs of the world united
in accusing him of anti-Semitism.
*
And when Hanna Arendt,
one of the greatest political thinkers of the 20th century,
said the xxxish leadership had been partly responsible
for the Holocaust, xxxish pundits retaliated
by reminding the world that
as a teenager she had had a Nazi lover.
*
Moral of the story:
Think twice before you step on a leader’s tail.
*
And now allow me to identify myself:
My name is Baliozoghlu
and I don’t carry Mt. Ararat in my heart.
#

[Artashes]

Re: elegy

ON LEADERSHIP
*******************************
The most important function of leadership is
to prove itself infallible even if the patient died.
*
When Toynbee said the only thing
the Israeli leadership appears to have learned
from the Holocaust was to behave like Nazis,
the xxxs of the world united
in accusing him of anti-Semitism.
*
And when Hanna Arendt,
one of the greatest political thinkers of the 20th century,
said the xxxish leadership had been partly responsible
for the Holocaust, xxxish pundits retaliated
by reminding the world that
as a teenager she had had a Nazi lover.
*
Moral of the story:
Think twice before you step on a leader’s tail.
*
And now allow me to identify myself:
My name is Baliozoghlu
and I don’t carry Mt. Ararat in my heart.
#

------ and now allow me to identify myself ------
Ara, are you being facetious when you say this or is "oglu" the actual suffix of your last name?

[Eddo211]

Re: elegy

This old thread again? yes the one man jerk-off thread.
Ara is OK though.

[arabaliozian]

Re: elegy

ON ARMENIAN ANTI-ARMENIANISM
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All our problems have solutions.
If we pretend otherwise
it’s because we have no use for them.
What we want,
what we need more than anything else is revenge.
It’s understandable.
What motivates a nation
that has been degraded, abused, and slaughtered
throughout most of its historic existence
is not reason but thirst for blood.
What drives us is not what’s good for us
but what’s bad for our enemies --
beginning with Armenians who disagree with us.
If only because these Armenians,
unlike our real enemies,
are within reach, defenseless,
and in no position to retaliate.
#

[Artashes]

Re: elegy

ON ARMENIAN ANTI-ARMENIANISM
****************************
All our problems have solutions.
If we pretend otherwise
it’s because we have no use for them.
What we want,
what we need more than anything else is revenge.
It’s understandable.
What motivates a nation
that has been degraded, abused, and slaughtered
throughout most of its historic existence
is not reason but thirst for blood.
What drives us is not what’s good for us
but what’s bad for our enemies --
beginning with Armenians who disagree with us.
If only because these Armenians,
unlike our real enemies,
are within reach, defenseless,
and in no position to retaliate.
#

I disagree.
To demand the TRUTH is (NOT) seeking revenge.
To say we will never forget the evil conduct of the turc or kurd is not lusting for blood.
To say those lands are ours is not being vengeful.
To seek justice is --- NOT --- the same as seeking vengeance.
Not at all.

[arabaliozian]

Re: elegy

ON WARS
& RELATED ATROCITIES
****************************************
Wars become inevitable only when
the countless factors that contributed to it
are covered up and ignored.
*
ON OUR HISTORY
*****************************
Think of a blind David
confronting an army of Goliaths with 20/20 vision.
*
MEMO I
********************
If you say what must be said
you will be misunderstood and rejected
by readers with an agenda.
*
ON WRITING
*******************
Think of your reader’s time as more valuable than yours;
and as editor be as ruthless as a Turk on the warpath.
#

[arabaliozian]

Re: elegy

historic lands? whose historic land is america?

[arabaliozian]

Re: elegy

CRITICS
*************************
My critics resent me
because I refuse to come to terms
with my own mediocrity.
But I suspect they resent me even more
for rejecting them as my role models.
*
What I know cannot be contradicted
by what you don’t know.
*
Beethoven to a critic:
“What I xxxx is better
than anything you have ever thought.”
#

[arabaliozian]

Re: elegy

It’s easy to apologize after you step on someone’s foot. But how do you apologize for leading a million and a half innocent human beings to the slaughterhouse? That’s why neither their leadership nor ours will ever apologize to the people.