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  • role models

    ROLE MODELS
    ***************************
    Where would Christians be without Jesus,
    or Muslims without Mohammed,
    or Communists without Marx,
    or Catholics without the popes,
    or Protestants without Luther?
    The men at the top matter.
    A divided leadership will spawn a divided community.
    Where the leadership is mediocre,
    excellence will be outlawed.
    Under a dishonest leadership,
    charlatanism will be the common currency.

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    • Re: role models

      SEPARATING FACT
      FROM FICTION
      ********************************************
      Nationalist historians, religious leaders, and
      politically controlled
      educational systems conspire
      to create not human beings
      with the ability to think for themselves,
      but dupes who parrot lies
      and are willing to kill and die
      in the name of God and Country.
      And when someone comes along
      and exposes this simple fact,
      he is labeled an enemy of the people
      who fully deserves to be insulted, exiled,
      jailed, silenced, or starved.
      #

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      • reflections

        REFLECTIONS
        ON THE STATUS QUO
        ************************************************
        Arrogance of power:
        the illusion that God is on your side
        and you can do no wrong.
        *
        Nothing wrong in thinking
        you have all the answers
        provided you also know
        all of them to be not just wrong
        but catastrophically wrong.
        *
        Self-assessed infallibility
        is the surest prelude to disaster.
        *
        It is at the apex of their power
        that empires begin their decline a fall.
        *
        Am I saying anything
        you don’t already know?
        *
        Empires are not killed;
        they commit suicide
        by self-inflicted ten thousand cuts.
        *
        Ten thousand is an arbitrary number.
        It could be a million-and-half.
        *
        To some this is as clear as daylight;
        to others it is an invitation to cannibalism.
        *
        On the positive side,
        at the bottom the only way is up.
        #

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        • monkeys

          THREE MONKEYS
          **************************
          One of the worst things that can happen to a man
          is to work for minimum wage and to be in need
          of a plumber or lawyer.
          *
          Who is to blame? -- the fanatic
          or the man who brainwashed him
          when he was a child?
          *
          Anyone who believes God to be on his side
          can’t be in need of human support.
          *
          The greatest challenge
          an Armenian academic faces today
          is to pretend to be deaf, dumb, and stupid.
          *
          The role models of our intellectual class
          are the three proverbial monkeys.
          *
          What could be more asinine
          than to look up to bosses, bishops and benefactors
          for political and moral guidance!
          *
          There isn’t much money in writing,
          especially if you decide to think for yourself
          and to say what must be said.
          #

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          • Re: monkeys

            NOTES / COMMENTS
            *******************************************
            According to a Hollywood producer,
            Ava Gardner’s greatest asset as an actress
            was neither her beauty nor her charm
            but her “xxxx power.”
            *
            About our ruling classes:
            “How can they live with themselves?”
            Next question: Do they have a choice?
            *
            If your critics are wrong,
            don’t hesitate to make them look like xxxx.
            I learned this from Toynbee,
            one of the most elegant stylists in world literature.
            *
            The surest symptom of idiocy:
            to recycle the propaganda line of idiots.
            *
            It can’t be a pleasant experience
            to suddenly realize that
            far from being Santa Teresa of Avila
            you are no better than a bordello madam.
            *
            I owe my life to the cowardice of my enemies.
            *
            Only idiots assess themselves as smart.
            I speak from experience.
            *
            On the positive side:
            idiocy is not a permanent condition but a transitory stage.
            Slave owners knew this:
            that’s why they treated reading as a capital offense.
            #

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            • evil

              NOTHING EVIL EVER DIES
              ********************************************
              Have you ever wondered what happened
              to the children of our Stalinists
              who engaged in successive waves of purges
              and systematically eliminated our ablest men?
              Wonder no more.
              They are still with us.
              Nothing evil ever dies.
              *
              Purges have now been replaced
              with a more efficient operation – exodus:
              the ruthless elimination of intellectuals, the poor,
              the unemployed, and the young –
              all potential trouble-makers
              who may be a threat to the status quo.
              *
              And it goes without saying
              our Stalinists no longer identify themselves as Stalinists.
              They are now oligarchs or crypto- and neo-commissars
              who live in expensive dachas in the shadow of Mt. Ararat,
              and they pretend to know all there is to know
              about our past, present and future,
              and they can recognize a traitor when they see one
              and traitors, as everyone knows by now,
              must be shot on sight like mad dogs.
              *
              That’s right. If you think our Stalinists died with Stalin,
              think again, for nothing evil ever dies.
              It is no different in the Diaspora.
              The Sultan may be dead and buried
              but we continue to be at the mercy of crypto-Sultans
              who speechify and rule our communities
              in the name of God and Country.
              #

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              • Re: evil

                Originally posted by arabaliozian View Post
                NOTHING EVIL EVER DIES
                ********************************************

                That’s right. If you think our Stalinists died with Stalin,
                think again, for nothing evil ever dies.
                It is no different in the Diaspora.

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                sad, but true

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                • Re: evil

                  That's why the Good must destroy the Evil......To do nothing as a man you are helping evil.
                  B0zkurt Hunter

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                  • comments & observations

                    ON A VARIETY OF THINGS
                    *****************************************
                    The unspoken motto of all leadership
                    regardless of race, color and creed:
                    “The more they hate the enemy,
                    the less they will hate us.”
                    Hence such genocidal slogans as
                    “The only good Indian is a dead Indian,”
                    and “The only good Turk, Azeri, Armenian…”
                    It follows: “The only good dissident
                    is a silent dissident.”
                    *
                    When we assert ourselves as smart,
                    we assume others to be less smart
                    even when they are smarter.
                    *
                    Confucius: “Only the wisest and the stupidest of men
                    never change.”
                    *
                    Raymond Chandler: “There ain’t no clean way
                    to make a million bucks.”
                    *
                    The greatest Irish writer, James Joyce, on patriotism:
                    “I loathe Ireland and the Irish.”
                    *
                    Gabriel Fauré on the ideal tempo for a song:
                    “If the singer is bad – very fast.”
                    *
                    “Life is a near-death experience.”
                    #

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                    • as i see it

                      AS I SEE IT
                      **********************************
                      It has been said
                      we can learn more from failure
                      than from success.
                      What have we learned from our failures?
                      I hope you have an answer because I don’t.
                      *
                      If I were to reorganized our educational system,
                      my first step would be to teach our children
                      the aim of conversation or dialogue is not
                      the clash of two egos and unsettled scores,
                      or the assertion of a superior brand of patriotism
                      but a step in the direction of compromise
                      and consensus.
                      *
                      Political leadership is a gradually acquired skill
                      like playing a musical instrument,
                      with one difference: there are no prodigies,
                      and failure may lead to defeat, massacre,
                      and subservience to the scum of the earth.
                      *
                      If Raffi is to be believed,
                      our leaders have been less like sheep-dogs
                      and more like wolves.
                      #

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