Thursday, January 03, 2013 ***************************************** CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE ************************************** Turks read and quote me? Let them! I refuse to join a conspiracy of silence by writing about “nightingales serenading the moon and the stars” (Leo). * If we are the mercy of “Turks who speak Armenian fluently,” (according to one of our elder statesmen) who will benefit by my silence? If we are experiencing another genocide (“sbidak chart”) – that is to say, exodus from the Homeland and assimilation in the Diaspora – will my silence slow down or accelerate the process? If in the eyes of our “betters” we are no better than garbage (“aghber”) and “shits,” I see nothing questionable in pointing out the fact that, very much like the rest of us, they could be wrong. * If the Turks know us better than we know ourselves – after all, it was they who initiated and implemented a policy of “divide and rule” -- what’s new in what I have been saying? * I don’t adjust what I think and write to please this or that imaginary audience. I deal with facts. I deal with reality. I don’t control reality. I try to understand it. * When told to give them hell, Truman is quoted as having said: “I don’t do that. I speak the truth and they think they are in hell.” If that’s good enough for an American presidential candidate, it ought to be good enough for a minor Armenian scribbler. * Covering up the blunders of our political and religious leaders has nothing to do with patriotism and everything to do with subservience and cowardice. # Friday, January 04, 2013 ************************************** THROW THE BUMS OUT ********************************* People don’t divide themselves; leaders do – political leaders in cahoots with religious leaders; bosses and bishops. and what motivates them is not love of God or Truth but lust for power. * They say they divide us in the name of dogmas that are far more important than the survival of the nation and the welfare of the people. If you believe that you will believe anything. * All politicians are compulsive and habitual liars who promise heaven and deliver hell. Only the brainwashed take them seriously and a brainwashed Armenian is a moronized dupe who believes he cannot be fooled because he is smart. Smart when it comes to selling Oriental rugs, maybe; but a damn fool when it comes to politics, certainly! * To divide and undermine the integrity of the nation is enemy action, therefore treason. * The ideal dupe is a child that cannot yet think for himself. Hence schools run by political parties on the theory that once brainwashed always a dupe. There it is, an outline of our central problem. The solution is obvious and if you can’t see it it’s because you have been “educated” to be blind. And when “the blind lead the blind both shall fall into the ditch.” # Saturday, January 05, 2013 ************************************ ON PROPAGANDA ******************************* Propaganda dehumanizes as well as moronizes its dupes. * The difference between someone who thinks for himself and another who recycles propaganda is that the first is a human being, therefore fallible, and the second is a parrot who has no conception of right and wrong and is therefore infallible. I speak from experience. I was brought up as a parrot and remained one for most of my life. * One way to tell the difference between a parrot and a human being is by their vocabulary. Parrots read from the same script, deliver the same line, and use similar phrases, expressions and verbal formulas, one of them being: “We owe our continued existence to our heroic freedom fighters; if it weren’t for them there would be no Armenia today.” * Our Stalinists could say the same thing with one significant difference. Whereas we know 350,000 Armenian boys died during World War II fighting the Germans, we have no idea how many freedom fighters died in World War I. If that is a state secret there must be a good reason for it. What is the reason? I ask because I don’t know. As always I have more questions than answers. * Why is it that we know the number of innocent civilians that were slaughtered in 1915 but we don’t know the number of our heroes that fell? * In the Ottoman Bank caper about a dozen heroes took part and about four perished; we also know that about 4000 (some say 6000) innocent civilians were slaughtered in retaliation. The ratio here is 1000 civilians to one freedom fighter. Next question: does this ratio hold true for the next chapter of our history? Again I have more questions than answers and as always I look forward to being enlightened. #