MORNING MEDITATIONS
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Ideologies have been of no use to us: they have done more harm than good. The best ideology is the ideology of consensus, which amounts to saying, the best ideology is no ideology.
If you want to appear wiser, pretend to know better. If you want to appear established, pretend to be established. If you want to appear positive, raise your voice. The life of a deceiver is a constant struggle against reality, and it is an uneven struggle like that of a shadow against a mountain – an ant’s shadow against Mt. Everest.
Ever since I began to understand what’s happening to us, I have been unable to think and write about anything else. One does not choose one’s obsessions. It’s the other way around. We are not the stroller but his dog.
If anyone had predicted that I would spend twenty years of my life exposing Armenian charlatanism, I would have shrugged him off as a damn fool.
To call a charlatan a charlatan is not bad manners but good semantics.
You have to live in two different countries for a number of years to see the many illusions of patriotism.
He is a defender of the faith and self-interest is his only credo. Scratch such a defender of the faith and expose a destroyer of the nation.
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ara baliozian
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Posted 11 June 2001 - 08:05 AM
It looks to me that your struggle seems to be a constant struggle against reality.
It's such a pity that people study year after year, handle the english language so well to only expose rubbish and try to deceive their countrymates rather than to be constructive even when they criticize. I have seen positive elements in your essays but obviously there is a lack of good will.
I am only wondering one thing after what you said: calling a sell-out a sell-out is it bad manners?
It's such a pity that people study year after year, handle the english language so well to only expose rubbish and try to deceive their countrymates rather than to be constructive even when they criticize. I have seen positive elements in your essays but obviously there is a lack of good will.
I am only wondering one thing after what you said: calling a sell-out a sell-out is it bad manners?
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