Don Quijote and Sancho Panza

[Boghos]

I am ready to recognize the failings of Armenians and especially my own. I think that is essential. Observation tells me that more often than not whatever we blame on others is a result of our own weaknesses.

 

Long essays can be written on our problems. Naturally we are not the only ones to have problems. But this cannot be used as an excuse to ignore them. We should look at them and find our own solutions, there is nothing wrong with it.

 

What is wrong is to over and over repeat half-baked truths and generalizations about Armenians.

It is ridiculous, immoral and incorrect to call us losers. It is unacceptable to belitlle Armenia and our compatriots there.

 

I understand that the people that do that here are nothing more than those self-ascribed "prophets of Apocalypse" that we find in so many large cities all over the world. That their words have the same impact as that of a fly hitting a building.

 

But there is a limit. I used to find these clowns funny. Not anymore.

[Arpa]

Boghos, this is nothing new. It stems from our fractured identity. It is a manifestation of our superstrition that boasting will bring down the wrath. That we must constantly knock ourselves down, be humble lest the powers to be, be they wordly or heavenly smash our heads should we hold it high.

This is nothing new. It has been in the making for many centuries until it came to a head and was formalized by Narekatsi. We revere Grigor as our spiritual father. He may have been the father of our modern literature, his poems may have a high literary and linguistic value but his philosophy is probably one of the most damaging to our psyche and ethnic pride. Read his hymns and lamentations and see how many times he reduces himself(and us) to (praphrase); You are the elephant, we/I but mere mice. You are the dragon, we mere flies. You are almighty, we powerless, and ad infinitum, ad nauseam.

 

Speakig of self fulfilling prophesy!!!

[Boghos]

Dear Arpa,

 

I know. But there are different ways of expressing it, sometimes I have the impression that some are trying to push a depressed being to suicide, however impossible that is and/or unlikely to happen.

 

We now have a reality that is diferent from that of the past 600 hundred years at least. I know that words alone will not make much of a difference, but if one has the capacity and energy to do something, why not make it constructive.

 

You know I think people should really travel to Armenia, if the can somehow relate to it, excellent. If not, so be it too. But whinning will not get us anywhere, it certainly hasn´t in the past 3000 years or so.

[MosJan]

Bravo you to have a good point, and I will join your opinion.

Crying + Nagging + whining + Tsur Viz = ingredients for looser

World has had enough of this, it’s time for us to represent our self’s us we are, It’s time for us to stand up and for some of us to face the reality. enough of crying and using a – Chlatsor yerexun Kath chen ta – us a mado.

 

MOvses