Thursday, March 28, 2013 **************************************** WHEN I THOUGHT I KNEW ************************************** When I thought I knew, I didn’t! * State a problem clearly and its solution will fall on your lap. * When it comes to solving our problems we may well be just about the dumbest people on earth. * In an anti-intellectual environment to call someone an intellectual is the same as identifying him as a mental masturbator, a parasite, and a daydreamer who knows nothing about real life. An Armenian may identify himself as a professor or an academic, but only a retard will call himself an intellectual. To those of my readers who dismiss me as an intellectual I therefore say, one does not have to be an intellectual, a vodanavorji, or anything else for that matter to recognize a jackass when he sees one. * To those who say “I know what I need to know,” I say: Knowledge is not and cannot be a final product but a work in progress. # Friday, March 29, 2013 ************************************ WHAT IF OUR BETTERS ARE OUR WORST? ************************************** The problem with a drug addict is not his addiction but his refusal to kick the habit. Likewise, our problem is not the absence of solutions but the rejection of all solutions, one of them being solidarity. * Next time you hear someone parrot the line “what we need is solutions,” you may classify him as a habitual and compulsive liar. * More often than not we are not deceived; we consent to be deceived. We are brought up to believe we are smart to cover up our status as dupes of idiots. * We believe our “betters” to be la crème de la crème when in fact they are la crème de la scum. # Saturday, March 30, 2013 *************************************** ON CROOKS AND LIARS ********************************* An honest man cannot solve the problems of a crook. Neither can he solve the problems of a nation run by crooks. Which may explain why our literature has failed to solve a single problem, prevent a single death, expose a single liar. * Between an unprofitable truth and profitable lies, most men will choose lies. This may explain why nationalist historians outnumber the others a thousand to one. * To write about crooks and liars means never to run out of things to say. * My ambition: to say things nobody says and everybody thinks. * Like the last Ottoman sultans who had a thousand concubines in their harems, the average propagandist has a thousand lies. You want proof? Think the opposite of what a speechifier says and you may see more sense there. #