notes and comments

[Haykakan]

Re: elegy

Then why do you post nothing but recycled crap? And why are many of your comments and statements not objective? Hmm so i guess what your trying to say is that your trying to drive out dialogue? You cant preach what you dont practice (i guess you can but who will listen?).

[arabaliozian]

Re: elegy

February 5, 2010
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THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS
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The most valuable thoughts are those that contradict our emotions.
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When I wrote what they wanted to read, I was happy and they were happy, until I read Einstein's remark to the effect that to aim at happiness at the expense of truth is to entertain “the ambitions of a pig.”
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ON SOLUTIONS
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The first step is the realization that, like the kingdom of God, solutions too are within you.
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MEMO TO READERS
WHO INSULT ME ANONYMOUSLY
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Your own shadow is a much more serious threat to you than I could ever be. But then, cowards don't need a real threat to experience fear, for their greatest enemy is their own imagination.
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TOYNBEE'S CONCEPTION OF REALITY
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“Every human being now alive has links, however tenuous, not only with every one of his contemporaries, but also with every other human being that has ever lived. In this sense human history is one single seamless web, and any dissection of it is an arbitrary misrepresentation of Reality.”
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MAX WEBER ON MODERN MAN
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“Specialists without vision, sensualists without heart; this nullity imagines that it has attained a level of civilization never before achieved.”
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[arabaliozian]

Re: elegy

February 6, 2010
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MIKOYAN
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In his 1959:THE YEAR EVERYTHING CHANGED (New Jersey, 2009), Fred Kaplan devotes an entire chapter to Mikoyan's 1959 visit to America. A man of “blunt words, crackling wit, and unfailing good humor,” Mikoyan is also said to have been followed by Hungarian demonstrators who called him “mass murderer!” We also read here that Khrushchev affectionately called him “my Armenian,” and my “rug merchant.”
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ON NATIONALISM
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The trouble with nationalists is that they will be as divided as multinationalists because everyone will have his own conception of nation and patriotism that will stand in direct contradiction to another's. Hence the frequency and inevitability of civil wars.
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SPENGLER ON DEMOCRACY
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“A small number of superior heads, whose names are very likely not the best-known, settle everything, while below them are the great mass of second-rate politicians selected through a provincially-conceived franchise to keep alive the illusion of popular self-determination.”
This may explain the popularity of conspiracy theories.
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VERSIONS OF THE PAST
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Nationalist historians tend to be good at telling one side of the story: their own. The same applies to historians with an ideological or religious ax to grind. Which is why there are as many versions of the past as there are ideologies, religions, nations, tribes, and schools of thought, all of whom assert to have a monopoly on truth.
To say therefore that our own version of the past is true but the French, Russian, American, British, Patagonian, or, for that matter, Turkish versions of their own past is false, is to bury our heads in the sand.
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[Haykakan]

Re: elegy

The French, Russian, American, British, Patagonian side of the story sounds a lot more like ours then the turcks version. I agree with the statement here on democracy but was it not you who was glorifying it not too long ago when i made the exact same critic of it. This is what i mean, you contradict yourself. You also fail to apply the rules that you yourself set in a equal and fair manner.

[Pedro Xaramillo]

Re: elegy

He is as mysterious as my 5 yearold.

Ha bayts they can be mysterious, you never quite know what they left in their pants pockets and underwear

[arabaliozian]

Re: elegy

The French, Russian, American, British, Patagonian side of the story sounds a lot more like ours then the turcks version. I agree with the statement here on democracy but was it not you who was glorifying it not too long ago when i made the exact same critic of it. This is what i mean, you contradict yourself. You also fail to apply the rules that you yourself set in a equal and fair manner.

i am against our brand of crypto-fascism.
and if to be against democracy means to be for fascism, i said NO!!!!!!!!!!

[Haykakan]

Re: elegy

My issue is more with racism then the form of government. Any form of government can be good or bad for its people and that includes democracy. As a matter of fact democratic states are more warlike then any other form of government. I do not put democracy on a pedastil because it does not deserve it, it is full of curruption and succeptible to manipulation plus it resorts to violence more then other types of governments. There are plenty of good examples of dictators who did great things for their countries, things that a democratic government simply could not have accoplished. Not that dictatorship is always a good idea but neither is democracy.

[arabaliozian]

Re: elegy

My issue is more with racism then the form of government. Any form of government can be good or bad for its people and that includes democracy. As a matter of fact democratic states are more warlike then any other form of government. I do not put democracy on a pedastil because it does not deserve it, it is full of curruption and succeptible to manipulation plus it resorts to violence more then other types of governments. There are plenty of good examples of dictators who did great things for their countries, things that a democratic government simply could not have accoplished. Not that dictatorship is always a good idea but neither is democracy.

the most popular fascist leaders of the last century are
ataturk, stalin, and mao.

[Pedro Xaramillo]

Re: elegy

the most popular fascist leaders of the last century are
ataturk, stalin, and mao.

Crap, Adolph Hitler and Benit Mussolini were fascists, it's a political theory and movement, Stalin and Mao were fake communists, Ataturk I can see as fascist, I think you should research political science before making such a statement

[bell-the-cat]

Re: elegy

Crap, Adolph Hitler and Benit Mussolini were fascists, it's a political theory and movement, Stalin and Mao were fake communists, Ataturk I can see as fascist, I think you should research political science before making such a statement

The words of an unapologetic and unreconstructed Marxist-Leninist? Reminds me of Islamist apologists of Islamic extremism - it has nothing to do with Islam, they say, becasue those that commit all the attrocities are not real Muslims.