ara baliozian Posted July 3, 2001 Report Share Posted July 3, 2001 ANALYZING BLUNDERS+++++++++++++++++++++++++We are good at exposing and analyzing the blunders of odars, but when it comes to our own, we prefer to lament. We confuse the study of history with counting victims and documenting atrocities. Our historians appear never to have heard Krikor Zohrab’s dictum: "The worst blunder we can commit is dealing with our blunders with lamentation." No, we must make sense of our past, which means establishing regularities, patterns, laws, traps to avoid, opportunities to seize, defects to correct, and blind spots to illuminate. A typical blind spot: our dependence on verbal commitments and rhetoric. It seems we have not yet learned that odar diplomats and politicians will say anything but do only that which is clearly to their advantage. It is useless to appeal to their humanity or reason or sense of justice or fair play. Consider the genocide issue: first they provoke it, and now they tell us it is a figment of our imagination. Some day they may change their minds, and if they do, it will not be because of the evidence we present but as a result of shifting interests and alliances. I therefore say to all our organizations that are in the business of "shoah business": Stop wasting your time, money, and energy. There are two other genocides going on right now: exodus from the Homeland and assimilation in the Diaspora. If you want to serve the interests of the nation, provide jobs for the unemployed in Armenia and promote a less divisive environment in the Diaspora.As for the dead: let them bury their dead.This is what our religion teaches us.This is what history dictates.This is what common decency demands. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anahid Takouhi Posted July 3, 2001 Report Share Posted July 3, 2001 You made my day, Ara. Can youPlease analyze more the two points you mentioned? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ara baliozian Posted July 3, 2001 Author Report Share Posted July 3, 2001 two points?the exodus and the assimilation?is that what you mean? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anahid Takouhi Posted July 3, 2001 Report Share Posted July 3, 2001 Exactly. I want to have your personal opinion about the genocides you pointed.These are very sensitive issues in our daily life, but who is caring about them...Even both Catholicoses seem not concern... more further than written statements...they are on the other side of their ''love''... for people, homeland, unity...bla...bla... bla... Poor and non-educated armenians are growing in number everywhere in the world... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ara baliozian Posted July 4, 2001 Author Report Share Posted July 4, 2001 dear friend:i have written several books on the subject but i will be glad to expand in future essays.../ara Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anahid Takouhi Posted July 5, 2001 Report Share Posted July 5, 2001 I'm waiting for the futire to come. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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