Saturday, November 24, 2012
Thursday, November 22, 2012
**************************************
IMMORTALITY
****************************
Yesterday I achieved immortality in the eyes of a reader:
I called him an idiot.
*
A SORE LOSER
************************
Romney is now complaining that Obama won
because he promised all kinds of freebies to Latinos,
and other minorities.
As for him, he promised nothing except
not to raise taxes on the 1%
and to look the other way as they transfer their money
to Swiss and offshore banks.
*
THE BLAME-GAME REVISITED
****************************************
We have been taught by charlatans to believe
we are a progressive nation
because we were first to convert to Christianity.
We now have another set of charlatans who tell us
Christianity is at the root of our decline as a nation.
You want to know what I think?
I think truth and charlatanism
are mutually exclusive concepts.
*
TRIANGULATION
**********************************
When I want to know more about Tashnaks
I speak with a Ramgavar and vice versa.
I prefer a contradiction to a big lie.
*
IDEAS
***********************
“A man with an idea is my enemy,” said Napoleon.
Armenians are different.
They welcome a new idea
as long as it’s theirs.
#
LET MY PEOPLE GO
*******************************
We are told, following independence
1,500,000 Armenians emigrated from their homeland to America
and a number of other countries including Turkey;
and they did this on their own initiative
without the political guidance of a Moses-like leader
who went up to the Pharaoh in Egypt land and said,
“Let my people go.”
And I cannot help thinking that
if a similar number of Armenians had emigrated
from the Ottoman Empire at the turn of the last century
we would now have fewer victims to lament.
*
Moral: Left to their own devices,
people will make wiser decisions
than so-called patriotic
and charismatic speechifiers and sermonizers.
I would go further and say,
our leaders may well have been at the root
of all our misfortunes.
*
Wars, revolutions, counter-revolutions, massacres,
mass deportations, purges, systematic violations of human rights:
they can all be traced to a megalomaniac,
that is to say, a psychologically damaged ego
that pretends to know better
or to speak, if not in the name of Allah
than in the name of truth
or what’s best for the people.
*
Next time such a specimen visits your community,
my advice is to stay away from him
because he is either a vampire or a grave-diggers
or probably both at once.
#
ON LITERATURE
****************************
The chances are what you were taught to believe as a child
you will continue to believe as an adult.
That’s the only way to explain why
the West is predominantly Christian
and the Middle East Muslim.
*
A hundred or a thousand great writers
cannot undo the damage done to the human brain
by a single mediocre schoolteacher, parish priest, mullah, or rabbi.
The brainwashed cannot be unwashed by reason alone.
*
Under all authoritarian systems
literature is systematically purged and distorted.
If so far Armenian literature has failed
to detribalize the nation
it’s for this reason and this reason alone.
*
Those who have been in charge of our literature
(from academics to commissars of culture)
have systematically perverted its central message.
Naregatsi is not just a religious mystic
but also an astute political commentator.
When he make a long list of his sins, failings, and aberrations
(“a wicked servant, an abusive contradicter” and so on)
he speaks not only for himself but also the nation
and its leadership.
*
There is a tragic dimension in Baronian, Odian, and Massikian’s satire.
It exposes the moral bankruptcy and degeneration
of our bosses, bishops, and benefactors.
*
Perhaps what I am trying to say here is that
it will take more than a messiah or a dozen of them
to put us on the right path.
If our genocide failed to teach us anything, what can?
Surely not the verbiage of a vodanaVORji or a medaVORagan.
#
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
1 comment:
The English word for medavoragan is suppository!
Post a Comment