When victimhood defines national consciousness

[Eddie]

The following quote is from Jacqueline Rose, a British intellectual and author of the 2005 'The Question of Zion'. She was not writing about Armenians but what she says fits a large swathe of modern Armenian 'intellectuals' and 'patriots' like a bespoke suit.

 

"Victimhood is something that happens but when you turn it into an identity you're psychically and politically finished."

 

For Armenians this cuts to the bone indeed.

 

One consequence of 'victimhood as indentity' is the breeding of a disgusting dependency on the more powerful, a reliance on others, a complete abdicatiton of any sense of dignity, of any self sustaining will. It leads to a pleading and begging of others for a solution to your problems.

 

The definition of Armenian identity as Genocide victims casts Armenians in that horribly helpless bleating posture with hands outstretched to imperialist passers begging for compensation. This is causing havoc for Armenians. Critically it acts as a cover for the elites currently plundering and destroying Armenia. Preoccupied with the politics of Genocide Recognition and the calls for compensation that flow from this, all expected to be kindly donated to Armenians, the bandits riding their 4X4 chariots roughshod over the lives and the future of the Armenian common people get away with murder, the murder of a nation included.

 

Eddie

[Yervant1]

Agreed fully! Sad case of reality, I don't know if we'll ever shed this from our collective mentality. I hope the nation will rise up and rid the scums from power, but then again I'm not sure if we have good enough leaders in the country that puts the country ahead of their own interests.