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Thursday, March 10, 2011
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COSMOLOGY
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If I understand recent developments in cosmology,
we live in a multi-dimensional multi-universe
in which Big Bangs are routine occurrences.
Man may not live forever but the cosmos does,
and what are we if not tiny fragments of the cosmos?
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For the first time in history Armenians in America are free.
But what are they doing with their freedom?
They either allow themselves and their offspring
to be brainwashed by propagandists
or they assimilate.
They have as much initiative to shape their destiny
as a grain of sand in a sandstorm.
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All power structures rely on the support of dupes and idiots
who believe everything they are told.
Even after 43 years of incompetence, corruption, and greed
by an obviously deranged megalomaniac,
there are many Libyans today willing to kill and die for him.
Closer to home: there is no evidence to suggest
that we are smarter or better off than Libyans,
and judging by the number of our victims so far,
we may well be dumber and worse off.
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Friday, March 11, 2011
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SITUATION / SH*TUATION
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We were defeated
because we were divided.
We were bastardized
because we were defeated and conquered.
We have been moronized
because we were divided, defeated,
conquered, bastardized, and brainwashed to believe
none of it is our fault
but must be ascribed
to geographic, political, economic, and cultural conditions
beyond our control.
Which of course is hogwash.
Everything begins and ends in the convolutions of our brains.
Which also means there is a way out.
Ours is not a verdict without appeal.
If our problems are of our own making,
so are their solutions.
The rest is propaganda –
The kind whose ultimate aim is to moronize.
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Saturday, March 12, 2011
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FROM MY NOTEBOOKS
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Propaganda moronizes both the perp and his victim.
Has a single political leader ever identified himself as a moronizer?
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Genghis Khan openly admitted that
nothing gave him as much pleasure as killing and raping.
There is a dormant Genghis Khan in all men of power.
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We speak of political ambition and greed for power;
not of ambition and greed to serve.
We live in a world where even the chief executive officers
of charitable organizations demand and get paid millions.
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The easiest thing in the world: to make mistakes.
The hardest: to admit them even to oneself.
It took the popes of Rome several centuries
to admit they had made a mistake in persecuting Galileo.
It may take them several more centuries
to admit they are not infallible.
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Power also means a refusal to see
that which is clearly visible to others.
Stalin and Hitler never even considered pleading guilty
to a single murder.
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No one likes minorities with unsettled scores in their midst.
Do we have such minorities in Armenia?
If we don’t, how come?
If we do, how to we handle them?
Does anyone know what happened to the Kurds in Karabagh?
Is anyone interested?
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