Sunday, April 28, 2013 ****************************************** KING AND COUNTRY ********************************** Have you ever wondered how many men who killed and died in the name of King and Country ever stopped to ask: Whose King and whose Country? Or for that matter, whose Sultan and whose Commissar? * The Brits who fought against German in World War II had a German king. Napoleon was Italian, Hitler Austrian, Stalin Georgian, the Greek king too was a German; most Byzantine emperors – the most warlike and bloodthirsty – were either Armenian of half-Armenian; the Ottoman sultans were bastards – the last one’s mother was an Armenian. * Royalty, like so much else, is a big joke played by the ruling classes on the ignorant masses. As for Country: at one time or another, every piece of real estate, except the Garden of Eden, has been contested. * What a book one could write on the role of lies, illusions, and wishful thinking in human affairs! * By the way, most Armenian kings, including the last one, were odars. As for our present leadership: one of our elder statesmen once confided in me that some of them are Turks who speak Armenian fluently. I didn’t believe him then but I do now. # ON CONSENSUS *************************** When I first read the words “consensus seeker” I thought if I were a millionaire the first thing I would do is establish a university course on the subject. If we don’t have such a course today it may be because we are natural-born sh*t-disturbers who thrive on conflict. * Think of society and its laws as a conspiracy whose aim is to produce criminals. * You may have noticed that Armenians who demand solutions don’t like to think of themselves as the problem. * Honest Christians exist as surely as honest Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists and atheists but they are not allowed to formulate and implement policy. # KING AND COUNTRY (ii) **************************************** It could be said of our leadership: the higher they rise, the lower they sink – which is what happens in all criminal organization. * If I were to produce an autobiography I would begin by warning the reader that my life is so unreadable that I would have to either invent it or write the opposite of what really happened. The same applies to an objective account of our past. * Power and lies are Siamese. The greater the power, the bigger the lies. * To legitimize their power, popes assert infallibility notwithstanding their countless blunders – from the Crusades to the persecution, torture and death of heretics. * Kings, we were told, got their power from God via the Church. It is safe to assume that men who speak in the name of god are compulsive and habitual liars. * I repeat myself? So do you whenever you say “Yes, sir!” # THAT WHICH WE SHARE WITH YANKS *********************************** Americans have trouble understanding why someone who has enjoyed all the benefits and privileges of being a citizen of the greatest democracy in the history of mankind would freely choose to be a terrorist. They cannot imagine themselves to be so repulsive that in the environment they have created to kill and die become more desirable than to live and prosper. * As for Armenians: our arrogance and stupidity are such that we cannot imagine ourselves to be targets of criticism by fellow Armenians. * After Kazantzakis died and was buried in Crete, the natives would shit on his grave. My advice to our dissidents: stipulate in your will to be buried in a grave without a headstone. * When sheep get organized they choose a wolf as their leader. * Dissidents are neither harlots nor pimps but brothers and sisters who hear a different drummer. Now then, go ahead and explain that to our bosses, bishops, benefactors, and commissars. #