as i see it - Pt. IV

[ara baliozian]

Wednesday, March 01, 2006

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Renan: "A good policy consists not in opposing what is inevitable but in being of use to it and in making use of it."

We have been better at "being of use to it," than "in making use of it," alas!

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Robin Hood did not steal from the rich, he simply returned to the poor that which had been stolen from them.

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Gide in 1941, after the German occupation: "For years now, France has hardly given us any reason to be proud. The France of today has ceased to be France." By France I assume he meant the leadership and its dupes.

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Genocide is a plant whose seed is prejudice, and prejudice comes to us disguised as love of God and Country.

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As the offspring of perennial underdogs and victims I refuse to assert moral superiority because to do so would mean adding hypocrisy to my previous list of vices.

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If someone I don't trust were to agree with me, I would disagree with myself.

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Andrea De Carlo: "He tells me to follow my instinct. But what if I have two of them?"

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ON WRITING (THREE PARAPHRASES)

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If the first sentence comes from the gut, the rest is bound to follow. (Hemingway)

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Before you sit down to write you must stand up and live. (Thoreau)

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Force yourself to be brief and miracles may happen. (Chekhov)

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[ara baliozian]

Friday, March 10, 2006

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Whatever I know, which is not much, has come from books. My knowledge of the real world is so limited that it might as well be non-existent; and whenever I have ventured outside in search of knowledge, I have returned to my books bloodied and defeated. But am I alone in this? Consider our revolutionaries at the turn of the last century. As long as they became intoxicated with Western ideas, they did no harm. But when they decided to act on them in the real world, their dreams turned into a nightmare. And consider what’s happening in Iraq today….

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Socrates understood many things but he failed to understand one of the most important things, namely the fact that some day his conversations with fellow Athenians would be seen as a capital offense.

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In a letter to the editor and speaking about “the authority of the scriptures,” a fundamentalist speaks of “the very foundation of facts that have withstood centuries of brutal attacks.” Astrology too has “withstood centuries of brutal attacks.” So what?

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[ara baliozian]

Saturday, March 11, 2006

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OTTOMANIZED ARMENIANS

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Some Armenians have been so thoroughly Ottomanized that their only source of wisdom seems to be Turkish sayings; and judging by the number of Armenian sayings and writers they quote, they have not heard or read a single one. Talaat and Stalin exterminated two generations of our ablest writers. These Armenians went further: they buried and forgot these writers ever existed.

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GOSTAN ZARIAN

ON SOVIETIZED ARMENIANS

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In his TRAVELLER AND HIS ROAD and speaking of Sovietized Armenians who recycled Bolshevik propaganda to him, Zarian writes: “They are spitting on Raffi. They are spitting on Aharonian. They are spitting on Derian. And that with the borrowed, consumptive spittle of Muscovite ‘masters.’ Even their filth is second hand. Even their words have not been picked up from our streets. Danger, danger, danger!”

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OUR PRESENT SITUATION

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If our situation is shituation today it may be because we are at the mercy of Sovietized bloodsuckers and Ottomanized charlatans whose Turcocentric view of life and understanding of their fellow men begins and ends with massacres. “You either massacre or are massacred,” they seem to be saying. “And if you can’t massacre your enemy with fire and sword, choose a more defenseless victim and massacre him with words.” And who could be more defenseless than Armenian writers? If they are no longer spitting on Raffi, Aharonian, and Derian, it may be because they don’t even know who these writers are.

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AM I REPEATING MYSELF?

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If I am, it is because our Ottomanized and Sovietized brothers repeat themselves too by recycling filth that has not even picked up from our own streets but from alien gutters.

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[Armen]

I remember once when I was 12 y/o I opened some general medical information book and found out that I had nearly 95% of illnesses listed there, including some 10 STD, some 15 types of cancer, different variations of schizophrenia and paranioa.

 

Now I have difficulty separating a group of Armenians that are not either Ottomanized or Sovietized...Are we such a clinical case?

[ara baliozian]

Sunday, March 12, 2006

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Speaking of Lord Byron’s involvement in the Greek war of liberation, John Mortimer writes: “He had found, like many of those who have struggled for great liberal and liberating causes and beliefs, that the difficulty isn’t so much fighting the enemy as stopping your friends murdering each other.”

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“If we have free speech,” Milton tells us, “truth will look after itself.” It follows, where there is censorship, there must also be lies.

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Somewhere in his MANDATE FOR ARMENIA (Kent, Ohio, 1966) James Gidney writes that the mandate was rejected because the prevalent view in Washington was that Turks and Armenians were two Middle-East tribes that had hated each other for centuries and to get involved in such an environment would amount to looking for trouble. In other words, Armenians and Turks were seen as variants of today’s Sunnis and Shias in Iraq. Which brings to mind the adage that the only thing we learn from history is that we can’t learn from history.

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Recycling propaganda enhances our prestige (in our own eyes) as it lowers our IQ (in the eyes of others) in addition to certifying our status as perennial dupes.

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I have said this before and it bears repeating: the victims were innocent. But not all Armenians were. One does not have to read Turkish historians or Turcophile apologists to know this but our own pre-Genocide writers like Baronian and Odian (both available in English) whose works make it abundantly clear that the Armenian communities in the Ottoman Empire were at the mercy of loudmouth charlatans who spoke with a forked tongue, very much like our Turcocentric dime-a-dozen pundits today.

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[ara baliozian]

I remember once when I was 12 y/o I opened some general medical information book and found out that I had nearly 95% of illnesses listed there, including some 10 STD, some 15 types of cancer, different variations of schizophrenia and paranioa.

 

Now I have difficulty separating a group of Armenians that are not either Ottomanized or Sovietized...Are we such a clinical case?

 

we have our share of decent men but they are almost always at the mercy of charlatans or they are alienated or assimilated. if you don't believe me, read a history of armenian literature and consider the manner in which our writers were treated, especially writers who refused to recycle propaganda.

[ara baliozian]

Monday, March 13, 2006

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QUESTIONS / ANSWERS

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WHY DO YOU CONSISTENTLY STRESS THE NEGATIVE AND IGNORE THE POSITIVE?

Because my job as a critic is to expose contradictions. A typical example of contradiction is saying one thing and doing the exact opposite.

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READING YOU ONE WOULD CONCLUDE THAT ALL ARMENIANS ARE SOVIETIZED OR OTTOMANIZED CHARLATANS.

The written word is not a perfect medium of communication. Even the word of God has been misunderstood and misinterpreted by learned theologians throughout the centuries. What I have been saying is that the nation is at the mercy of Ottomanized or Sovietized charlatans. I have at no time said, suggested, or implied that we are all of us charlatans.

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WHY IS IT THAT I DON’T RECOGNIZE MYSELF IN YOUR WRITINGS?

The obvious answer to that question is that what I write does not apply to you.

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I DON’TCARE WHAT YOU SAY, I AM AND I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN A PROUD ARMENIAN.

Can you really be proud of our countless victims, or the present regime in Yerevan, or the assimilation rate in the Diaspora, and the emigration rate in the Homeland? I say about pride what Camus once said about charm – that it is “sh**.”

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ARE YOU SUGGESTING WE SHOULD ALL HANG OUR HEADS AND SPEND THE REST OF OUR LIVES BEING ASHAMED OF OURSELVES?

No, because that would amount to accepting our present situation as a permanent condition ordained by God or some other immovable or irresistible force. I want my fellow Armenians to share my outrage, to say enough is enough. I want decent Armenians to spend less time saying, Yes, sir! I have at no time denied the fact that there are many decent Armenians. For all I know they may even be in the majority, in the same way that the majority of Germans under Hitler, or Russians under Stalin, or Italians under Mussolini, or Muslims today are decent folk. But they are not the ones who run things, set policy, make headlines, and shape the destiny of the nation.

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I HAVE NEVER SAID YES, SIR! TO ANYONE. ON THE OTHER HAND, HOW DO I GO ABOUT SAYING NO, SIR!?

You can begin by sending an e-mail to the editors of our Turcocentric weeklies and saying there is more to life than Turks and massacres, which shouldn’t cost you a penny or more than a minute of your time. I am reminded of the great American reformer, Saul Alinsky, who once said that to demand and introduce social change doesn’t have to be hard work; sometimes it can even be fun.

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[Takoush]

Ara:

 

What you are suggesting here is for us to undergo as in macrosociological functionalists' theorital perspective's reform mechanism; such was the case of Marxism, Mills, Adams and or Dubois. You'd like to see democracy in its complete sense and functions instilled in Armenia. However, when you speak about exodus; it has already happened. The milk was spilled, the damage was done; how many of us are really going to go to our homeland? Or how many native Armenians will go back to their homeland? In the foreseeable future, I simply don't see that happening, do you? As far as that is concerned; I see it as a hopeless case. After tasting the more relaxed and the better life of the Americas, not many will want to return.

 

As far as in the case of assimilation. Frankly, I see right in this Forum some speak of getting odar brides or odar husbands like it's nothing, it's normal. So what? Some of them are from Armenia too. What do you say to that? Now if I speak about myself and about my life; some people here will say to me that I am bragging. Damn right I am, and I have a right to be bragging. The fact that I was a girl and my biological clock could've ran out, I have had numerous odar guys at my feet yet I waited for the right Armenian man to marry. I sacrificed myself for my Armenianism; so I damn well deserve to brag about it now, despite some in here that openly call me bragger or that I talk about myself or my accomplishments. Damn right I do and I have the right to do it; and too bad if they don't like it or if they don't appreciate it. Yet I was born abroad and I have felt so strongly about my Armenianism to the point of wanting to marry only with an Armenian and sacrifice myself for my idealisms and my beliefs.

 

Some have also sacrificed themselves as I have done it; but mostly do not. That's why you have assimilation in the diaspora, Ara. How can you put that sacrificial heart in the bosom of most of the young Armenian adults' chests. I don't know; but I suppose the Armenian Churches and our clergy or the head of our respective parties should seriously concentrate on these important matters. I am one hundred percent for it and I hope as well as you do that they start concentrating to bring young men and young women together. One thing is good that since the big brother has come about for the past couple of decades now, our young boys and girls can communicate on the internet and that's another source too; but more importantly the Churches, the ballroom dances and the cultural events have been and still are I suppose a good source still. This is a very soar and yet a very serious matter for our parties to put their heads together and concentrate on these vital and important matters.

Edited March 14, 2006 by Anahid Takouhi

[Yervant1]

I sacrificed myself for my Armenianism; so I damn well deserve to brag about it now, despite some in here that openly call me bragger or that I talk about myself or my accomplishments. Damn right I do and I have the right to do it; and too bad if they don't like it or if they don't appreciate it. Yet I was born abroad and I have felt so strongly about my Armenianism to the point of wanting to marry only with an Armenian and sacrifice myself for my idealisms and my beliefs.

 

Some have also sacrificed themselves as I have done it; but mostly do not.

 

Anahid since when marrying an Armenian is a sacrifice. Are you not happy with your marriage or your using wrong words to describe your thoughts?

[Takoush]

Anahid since when marrying an Armenian is a sacrifice. Are you not happy with your marriage or your using wrong words to describe your thoughts?

Yervant1:

 

I think for me it has been. I have explained on this Forum before that I have fallen for odar guys and subsequently they have fallen in love with me prior to marrying my Armenian husband; but I have put aside my own feelings then for the sake of marrying with an Armenian guy. But I have also fallen in love with my husband when I married him of course, otherwise I wouldn't have married him.

Edited March 14, 2006 by Anahid Takouhi

[Yervant1]

Yervant1:

 

I think for me it has been. I have explained on this Forum before that I have fallen for odar guys and subsequently they have fallen in love with me prior to marrying my Armenian husband; but I have put aside my own feelings then for the sake of marrying with an Armenian guy. But I have also fallen in love with my husband when I married him of course, otherwise I wouldn't have married him.

I don't see any sacrifice here since you have fallen in love with your husband too.

[Takoush]

I don't see any sacrifice here since you have fallen in love with your husband too.

Now Yervant common. We are talking here at the time when I basically had odar guys at my feet and yes as suitors, in love with me and vice versa. Yet I put aside my own feelings and said no to them and waited for an Armenian guy. How can you not see the sacrificial point here. Or you want to argue with me incessently.

 

I have known many Armenian guys that fell in love with odar women and they simply couldn't leave them and they married them. As simple as that. They didn't say let me leave this gorgeous odar woman and go and search for an Armenian one to marry? No, they didn't do that. Yet they were guys. Girls have their biological clocks to worry about that do tick, you know?

Edited March 14, 2006 by Anahid Takouhi

[Yervant1]

Now Yervant common. We are talking here at the time when I basically had odar guys at my feet and yes as suitors, in love with me and vice versa. Yet I put aside my own feelings and said no to them and waited for an Armenian guy. How can you not see the sacrificial point here. Or you want to argue with me incessently.

 

I have known many Armenian guys that fell in love with odar women and they simply couldn't leave them and they married them. As simple as that. They didn't say let me leave this gorgeous odar woman and go and search for an Armenian one to marry? No, they didn't do that. Yet they were guys. Girls have their biological clocks to worry about that do tick, you know?

Anahid you took a chance and it worked out fine as you say it. Had your marriage turned out bad for you then you would have been sacrified since it's OK you are happy with your marriage I don't see anyone being sacrified. As for the argument issue I thought we were expressing our opinions and not arguing.

[ara baliozian]

Tuesday, March 14, 2006

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Kieslowski: “We are ashamed of being weak, hence our solitude.”

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If only one among a hundred writers is silenced on political or religious grounds, the worth of the other ninety nine is diminished if only because it reduces their status to that of conformists and yes-men.

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Malcolm Muggeridge: “Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.”

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Roger Martin du Gard: “Our whole damned civilization has got to go before we can bring any decency into the world.”

Something similar could be said of our entire culture of lamentation and Turcocentrism.

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Nietzsche: “I may be a bad German, but in any event I am a good European.” And I say, what’s the use of being a good Armenian if it also means being a bad man?

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I once met a prominent Armenian poet, educator, and author of several textbooks who called the Nobel Prize a Zionist conspiracy. Next he said his former students now living in America number in the thousand. Which may explain the popularity of the Zionist conspiracy theory among Armenians.

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[ara baliozian]

Mixed marriages are facts of life and i see nothing wrong in them so long as each partner respects the other and his/her identity. Sometimes odar wives and husbands make better armenians than some Armenians who are ashamed of who they are.

[Armen]

we have our share of decent men but they are almost always at the mercy of charlatans or they are alienated or assimilated. if you don't believe me, read a history of armenian literature and consider the manner in which our writers were treated, especially writers who refused to recycle propaganda.

 

Good writers were/are almost always treated like that, be it a third world country or a developed democracy. Developed democracies also silence few of their critical writers who make the difference... Either with money or with unfavourable circumstances.

[Takoush]

Mixed marriages are facts of life and i see nothing wrong in them so long as each partner respects the other and his/her identity. Sometimes odar wives and husbands make better armenians than some Armenians who are ashamed of who they are.

Then exactly what were you talking about when you spoke of assimilation?

[ara baliozian]

Wednesday, March 15, 2006

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My childhood ambition was to excel in a specific field so that I would enjoy the respect of my fellow men, make a living, and provide for my family. It was my misfortune to choose literature, and Armenian literature at that – a field in which the better you get the more you are abused. But by the time I discovered that however, it was too late, I had reached a point of no return. I now do my utmost to earn as much contempt as I can, and I am glad to report I am doing just fine, even if the better I get, the worst my prospects get.

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Whenever an odar editor rejected my work, I would ask myself, “What am I doing wrong?” Whenever an Armenian editor rejected my work, I would ask, “What am I doing right?” Odar editors wanted more sex and action; Armenian editors, more lies. Odar editors wanted to entertain their audience; Armenian editors wanted to brainwash theirs.

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Paul Valery: “My first word was NO; it will also be my last.”

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Nothing unites dishonest men more readily than the appearance in their midst of an honest man.

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Perhaps I was lucky enough to have a father who was educated enough to read newspapers but not arrogant enough to propagandize or speechify. If anything, he was a collateral damage of speechifiers and sermonizers.

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I propose the following epitaph for our sermonizers and speechifiers: “Here lies a charlatan the size of whose ego exceeded only by the length of his forked tongue.”

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[ara baliozian]

Good writers were/are almost always treated like that, be it a third world country or a developed democracy. Developed democracies also silence few of their critical writers who make the difference... Either with money or with unfavourable circumstances.

 

in authoritarian states there is no free speech;

in democracies free speech is a fundamental human right.

we have at no time throughout our millenial history have had a democracy.

we are tribal, authoritarian, often fascist, and intolerant of dissent. / ara

[ara baliozian]

Then exactly what were you talking about when you spoke of assimilation?

 

assimilation is preceded by alienation.

an alienated armenian is one who is fed up with our nonsense.

an assimilated armenian is one who has given up his identity in disgust

and acquired a new mask. / ara

[ara baliozian]

Thursday, March 16, 2006

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We brag as naturally and thoughtlessly as a canary sings. But whereas canaries have no credibility problem, we do.

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In a letter from the Publisher of a new Armenian magazine I read the following: “We are one of the few people of the ancient world that have survived to modern times with a language, culture, and memory of our history.”

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Whenever I read assertions of this type I am seized by an irresistible urge to footnote the text if only for the sake of accuracy and honesty; also in order to inform readers that we are not all braggarts or dupes of braggarts.

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We have survived to modern times? What if most of us, among them the best, did not survive?

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With a language? What if most of us neither read nor speak the language?

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Culture? I see more culture in yoghurt than in an Armenian community center. An odar friend, who is more interested in our literature than most Armenians, tells me: “I have yet to meet an Armenian who has read a single book by Raffi or Zarian.”

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Memory of history? What’s there to remember? Military defeats and moral victories followed by centuries of oppression, subservience, lamentation, betrayal, collaboration with the enemy, massacres, dispersion, internecine conflicts, and more lamentation….

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[ara baliozian]

Friday, March 17, 2006

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Things change, people change, life changes, and I am no longer what I used to be. Once upon a time I too was a cliché-spouting, loudmouth chauvinist propagandist. Then I met a Jewish boy from, of all places, Azerbaijan, and bragged about Armenians being the smartest people on the face of the earth. To prove it I went into the old routine of making a list of our celebrities:

“Anastas Mikoyan,” I said.

“Karl Marx,” said he.

“Aram Khachaturian,” I said.

“Mendelssohn, Mahler, Schoenberg, Aaron Copland,” he countered.

“William Saroyan,” I said next.

“Shalom Alecheim,” he said.

“Alecheim Shalom,” I replied.

“I meant the writer,” he said.

“Never heard of him,” I said.

“FIDDLER ON THE ROOF,” he said.

“He wrote that?”

“Who else?”

“Akim Tamiroff,” I said next.

“Who is he?” he wanted to know.

“One of the greatest actors in the world,” I explained.

“Charlie Chaplin,” he said.

“Beat Calouste Gulbenkian if you can, the wealthiest man that has ever lived,” I said.

After a few moments of reflection, he said:

“Jesus Christ, Freud, Einstein.”

And that was the last time I ever bragged about our celebrities.

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Saturday, March 18, 2006

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Historian David Irving six years ago in a British courtroom: “More women died on the back seat of Edward Kennedy’s car at Chappaquiddick than ever died in a gas chamber in Auschwitz.”

Found guilty in an Austrian court of law, Irving is now having second thoughts on the subject. If only he had taught himself to put aside his personal prejudices and to say, “I don’t know,” or “I am not sure,” or even “I have studied many documents but not all of them.”

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And consider Toynbee who, after an interview with Hitler in the 1930s, stated: “I am now

convinced Herr Hitler wants peace.”

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According to a French historian, Louis XIV never said, “I am the State.” On the contrary,

 

on his deathbed, his final words were, “I go, but the State remains.” What if this was a

case of deathbed conversion?

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According to a Biblical scholar, Jesus was in his fifties when he was crucified.

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One can prove anything by quoting historians who are notorious for their inability to get

their sh** together. Something similar could be said of political and religious leaders: One can legitimize all crimes by quoting them.

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Marx called some nations “unhistorical,” because they contributed nothing to world progress. We owe our status as a “historical” nation to the fact that we have contributed many things, but mostly victims.

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We must teach our children to listen to the other side of the story, and by that I don’t just mean the Turkish side, but also the Armenian moderate, non-partisan, and anti-partisan side.

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To those who question the validity of my assertions, I can only say that everything I write is based on the published works of our writers and my own experience. I may not have God and capital on my side (or is it Capital and god) but I do have that which is God-given, namely logic and common sense.

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[phantom22]

Friday, March 17, 2006

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Things change, people change, life changes, and I am no longer what I used to be. Once upon a time I too was a cliché-spouting, loudmouth chauvinist propagandist. Then I met a Jewish boy from, of all places, Azerbaijan, and bragged about Armenians being the smartest people on the face of the earth. To prove it I went into the old routine of making a list of our celebrities:

“Anastas Mikoyan,” I said.

“Karl Marx,” said he.

“Aram Khachaturian,” I said.

“Mendelssohn, Mahler, Schoenberg, Aaron Copland,” he countered.

“William Saroyan,” I said next.

“Shalom Alecheim,” he said.

“Alecheim Shalom,” I replied.

“I meant the writer,” he said.

“Never heard of him,” I said.

“FIDDLER ON THE ROOF,” he said.

“He wrote that?”

“Who else?”

“Akim Tamiroff,” I said next.

“Who is he?” he wanted to know.

“One of the greatest actors in the world,” I explained.

“Charlie Chaplin,” he said.

“Beat Calouste Gulbenkian if you can, the wealthiest man that has ever lived,” I said.

After a few moments of reflection, he said:

“Jesus Christ, Freud, Einstein.”

And that was the last time I ever bragged about our celebrities.

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Saturday, March 18, 2006

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Historian David Irving six years ago in a British courtroom: “More women died on the back seat of Edward Kennedy’s car at Chappaquiddick than ever died in a gas chamber in Auschwitz.”

Found guilty in an Austrian court of law, Irving is now having second thoughts on the subject. If only he had taught himself to put aside his personal prejudices and to say, “I don’t know,” or “I am not sure,” or even “I have studied many documents but not all of them.”

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And consider Toynbee who, after an interview with Hitler in the 1930s, stated: “I am now

convinced Herr Hitler wants peace.”

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According to a French historian, Louis XIV never said, “I am the State.” On the contrary,

 

on his deathbed, his final words were, “I go, but the State remains.” What if this was a

case of deathbed conversion?

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According to a Biblical scholar, Jesus was in his fifties when he was crucified.

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One can prove anything by quoting historians who are notorious for their inability to get

their sh** together. Something similar could be said of political and religious leaders: One can legitimize all crimes by quoting them.

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Marx called some nations “unhistorical,” because they contributed nothing to world progress. We owe our status as a “historical” nation to the fact that we have contributed many things, but mostly victims.

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We must teach our children to listen to the other side of the story, and by that I don’t just mean the Turkish side, but also the Armenian moderate, non-partisan, and anti-partisan side.

*To those who question the validity of my assertions, I can only say that everything I write is based on the published works of our writers and my own experience. I may not have God and capital on my side (or is it Capital and god) but I do have that which is God-given, namely logic and common sense.

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Ara,

 

Moderates are quickly silenced as traitors.

[ara baliozian]

Sunday, March 19, 2006

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We are outraged whenever Turks accuse us of massacring them. I am not. I even welcome this development because, for a change, I begin to see myself not as the offspring of perennial victims but as a human being. To paraphrase Shakespeare in THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, “I am an Armenian. Hath not an Armenian eyes? Hath not an Armenian hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? If they massacre us, shall we not massacre them?”

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Once upon a time I believed in our moral superiority. I know better today, and whenever I hear someone making such claims, I add hypocrisy to his list of failings.

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In his POLITICAL PARANOIA: THE PSYCHOPOLITICS OF HATRED, co-author Robert Robins says all stories of “good against evil” are just that, stories, and as such are viewed with some degree of justified skepticism.

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Again, let me add, repeat, and emphasize, I am not questioning the reality of the Genocide and Turkish responsibility, only our claim of moral superiority. Whenever we portray Turks as bloodthirsty Asiatic barbarians and ourselves as the first Christian nation and the cradle of civilization, who believes us? Surely not the Germans, or Americans, or Russians, or Muslims, or Hindus, whose innocent victims number in the millions too.

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I say these things for two reasons: to enhance our credibility in the eyes of the world; and to tear ourselves away from the comfortable reality to which we have become accustomed and which may make us vulnerable to the charge of racism.

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[ara baliozian]

Ara,

 

Moderates are quickly silenced as traitors.

 

that's why we must expose the fanatics!