Strengthening democracy: The prime duty of a citizen

Though I never count Democracy as the best way of governance both on the basis of effectiveness as well as justifiability yet would take it as inevitable to glorify it as one of the most relevant, feasible and pragmatically proper approach towards the management of Human society. Today when India is progressing at a rapid pace and have become a leading frontier in many very specified fields of study; still a large number of people in far flung areas remain illiterate. Poverty is taking lives while child labour and discrimination in society eating the silk of integrity. The increment in literacy is the most positive sign for a developing country like India; for its democracy especially; together with the economic achievements, producing the means to strengthen the democracy in our country. Still, sometimes because of our laziness or for selfishness we tend to be away from the process which is pasted as a responsibility on our face, as being part of the world's biggest democracy, which mark us to be active and continuously working for the empowerment of society through our principled efforts for the betterment of mankind.
There are numerous shortcomings around us that can be traced and mitigated easily but not effortlessly. It becomes even a bigger onus on our shoulders when we use this framework of Democracy. We can not and must not blame always the authorities, for the simple fact that we are the ultimate authority itself! Many minds can compute various demerits in the system and render it as a pseudo democratic framework, I include my mind in those with a foremost rank but it doesn't mean that I cease working for my people or keep knocking my head on the wall of excuses. We have to appreciate whatever power we can exercise and utilize it towards the growth and betterment of a healthy society. We should try our best to work for the betterment of the people around us and make efforts to make them happy; to destroy their sorrows and sprout the lotuses of smile in this materialistic mud of worldly complexities.
Various means can be sorted out to strengthen democracy in a nation. First and foremost is to create awareness and expand education to everyone. For already awaken people, internet is a boon with which they can put forward their views as I am putting now. To invest some time in community service as it refines oneself as a human together provides a mending to the community itself. To work on ground and trying collecting people together rather than digging depths of malice. An invariable vigil on whatever happening around us in this entire multiverse is equally significant tool. A few of examples I have tried to put forward in this pargraph about the means to strengthening the democracy, will be pleased to enlist more in future with the help of readers themselves, therefore try to expand this article further with your own views and ways. This article is basically written in the praise of "Citizen journalist" concept.

Lankan army killing innocent, unarmed Tamils

In Sri Lanka, now for so long, military forces of this island nation are killing unarmed, innocent Tamils who are generally referred to as "Eelam Tamils." Now when even the chief minister of Tamil Nadu also urged strongly to the centre to intervene in this pathetic act of violence and genocide by lankan military, and try to put down the deadly flame, which displays a false aim of treating so called terrorist organization LTTE and killing its own Tamil citizens, who are even not recognized heartily in their own nation and are deprived of even most of the basic amenities like food, education, shelter and health. They were even before living in self formed rescue camps in northern Sri Lanka and now even there they're being bombed to death. Small children are crying with severe wounds on their tiny bodies, women weeping seeing their cherished households being crushed, unarmed citizens are treated to death after forging all futile and baseless allegations on them of being pro LTTE.

It's the darkest form of Ethnic cleansing. After Norweignian interventions end, Sri Lankan goverment became even wilder and showed their might on unarmed Tamils with a mask on, determined to thrash LTTE. Not only being Indian Tamils are nearer to me but also as a human being, it's intolerable to see people being unjustifiably butchered. Centre should shed the apprehensions about two countries' bilateral relationships, and owe to its commitment towards mankind and its ethics. Now when all opposition parties and rulling parties in Tamil Nadu are crying in same voice to assist the victims, then what is this government is waiting for? First they let Malaysia dictate and brutally sabotage Malayasian Indians and now they are watching dumbly, this heinous act of barbarism with dry eyes! Stand up together against the "Devil."

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Achievements with struggle!

Human being is equipped with limited abilities and a larger list of disabilities. But this interpretation is merely a quantitative approach; qualitatively the abilities have always been privileged. Fraternity talks about the long running and everlasting battle between vices and virtues; we very hopefully describe the victory of the virtues eventually as inevitable, but rightly many of us highlight the fact about the suffering and losses during this battle, with a constantly higher probability of diminishing while being suffered. A few who might however reach out to that victorious last; imaginatively writing, would more or less be calculating the resultant of the entire procedure and the suffering phase rather than only that last sweet fruit, for savouring which, the burnt tongue is struggling.

Write to save nature

I am initiating this post to collaborate writings to save nature; covering issues, which are grossly intermingled, such as Global Climate change, Pollution, population explosion, endangered species both animals and plants and medical crisis such as "Pneumococcal disease" that are currently causing preventable deaths. The previously mentioned all problems are haunting the Nature's sustainable & fundamental composition.
I shall write a few pieces regarding them as I get time, I shall consider it my duty to encourage all others to pay heed and try equally contributing with their thoughts and ideas.
I believe in targeted writing more as absolute writings give you medals but not the practical results which I wish more. Firstly I am writing a small poem intended for children to tell them how things like Plastics and other untreatable rubbish can harm our routine life, the plot goes like a little girl named Nancy goes for a walk with her brother and here it is that how it goes...

Title= "Without Plastic"
Writer= "Devashish Mishra"
Flavour= "Dramatic & intended to fuel insipiration"

“Without Plastic”

Little Nancy screamed smelling,
What’s that heap brother.., it’s makin’ me yelling;
The caring bro strided,
Called for a respite,
Later told the little lady,
The cruel plastic & its might

Irritating who ever passing,
Not discriminating, a poor or Mr. Malya racing;
This time the wind prided,
Dragged the heap near the site;
Later told the little lady,
Now it’s over our heads, it’s time to fight

Here comes the big movement,
People seeking for the treatment;
Tons of humans running & rowing,
The site soon gets flooded,
All thoughts No work! Now the leaders’ bite,
Later told the little lady,
It’s nothing but a popularity kite

Some old lady, leaning & walking,
Comes there, with a broom for self sweeping;
Seeing the great mother, aged, working in spite,
Advanced a few more then the few more…
That’s the spirit for delight;
Later tells the little lady,
No irritation, that’s fantastic,
Hey brother! This world is so nice “Without Plastic”

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REFLECTIONS OF A FORMER DUPE

If I am as bad a writer as some of my readers are eager to inform me, why even bother reading me when there are so many good ones, among them patriotic academics, historians, pundits, and poets?
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Why is it that believers persecute non-believers? Is it because believers may believe they believe but they don't really believe, and in silencing infidels they hope to silence their own doubts?
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During the Soviet era dissidents were persecuted, exiled, and shot. Did that prolong the existence of the USSR by even a fraction of a second?
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Great nations produce great writers. Shakespeare wrote for kings and queens, not brainwashed fools and fishwives.
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An Armenian could never have said “You can't fool all the people all the time,” because Armenians have been successfully fooled for more than 1500 years now.
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What happened to our Bagratunis who denied their Armenian identity and claimed to be Jews descended from the Biblical King David? What happened to our Mamikonians (of Chinese descent) who claimed to have fought the heroic Battle of Avarair, which, according to some historians, not all of them odar, never took place?
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Nations need myths. Only deceivers need lies.
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The more brainwashed they are the lower their IQ, the higher their intolerance, the deeper their ignorance, the greater their fanaticism.
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I can recognize a brainwashed dupe when I see one. I was one myself most of my life.
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Harry Truman on Richard Nixon: “I don't think the son of a bitch knows the difference between telling the truth and lying.”

Comments

An American pundit on chief executive officers: “The government cannot place limitations on the salaries and bonuses of CEO's. These are smart people. They know how to handle money. If they don't make it one way, they will find other ways.”
In other words, the net of our justice system can catch sardines but not sharks, because it was designed by sharks.
Or, if you are going to steal, go into banking and leave petty larceny to criminals.
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If we ever let loose a forensic accountant into our organizations, I suspect he will suffocate in a pile of manure as big as Mount Ararat.
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Capitalism: socialism for the rich, free enterprise for the poor.
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If I am against everything that I believed thirty years ago, it only means that I did not waste my last thirty years because I learned things I didn't know.
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What makes a loser think he is morally superior is a psychological maneuver known as compensation. But there is compensation and there is overcompensation, as when an inbred moron assesses himself as a genius.
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If I repeat myself it's because when I am misunderstood, I don't mind trying again.
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Think of a dissident as someone who says “I refuse to be brainwashed.”

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Remars {Contd...}

Only crooks and barbarians fight. Sooner or later all civilized men reach a consensus through compromise.
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An Armenian with a highly developed spirit of contradiction doesn't feel the need to think. He contradicts first and comes up with reasons next, even if these reasons convince no one but himself.
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You may have noticed that people who screw other people, unlike their victims, always have good reasons for doing what they do.
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As soon as rules and criteria are established, there will always be those who will exploit them to their advantage, and in time assume key positions. In human affairs evil always triumphs – from commissars in the USSR, and televangelists in America, to holier-than-thou sanctimonious child-molesting pricks everywhere.
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On their way back from the Homeland my mother and sister were approached by one of their elderly travel companions, who said to them: “Please, don't mention our bad experiences to Ara, he may write about them.” It is beyond me why some people think covering up misconduct or abuses is patriotic, when obviously it is the exact opposite. Who after all benefits from filthy washrooms and unsanitary hospitals? Surely, not our tourist industry.
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What I do is a waste of time, I know that now. Even if I were to succeed I would fail. Consider the life, work, and influence of even the greatest reformers like Luther and Marx. What have they accomplished? They simply replaced one form of exploitation, abuse, and corruption with another. Which is why I have lowered my sights. My aim now is to give our riffraff insomnia, even if the insomnia lasts no more than a fraction of a second.
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In the biography of an English writer (Simon Gray, 1936-2008) I read that he deplored “the ugliness and bad manners of his contemporaries,” he thought “we live in exceptionally stupid times,” and “State education was controlled by savages who should be strung from lampposts.” Nothing further, Your Honor!
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Saturday, September 20, 2008
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THEM AND US
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One of the obscenties about our genocide is the average Turcocentric ghazetaji who has convinced himself and his dupes that our welfare as a nation depends on bloodthirsty subhuman savages. He at no time is willing to consider the possibility that not all Turks are savages, and that some of them may even be more civilized than he.
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Like most Armenians, I have followed many controversies in our media,
but I have at no time heard an Armenian say: “I was wrong!” or, even better, “I was dead wrong because I placed my own ego, interests, family, political party, church, or tribe above the interests of the nation or, for that matter, humanity as a whole.”
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“Hatred,” Gandhi said, “injures the haters, never the hated.”
Marx said capital dehumanizes not only the worker but also the capitalist himself.
And now listen to Pope Pius XI: “Dead matter leaves the factory ennobled and transformed, whereas men are corrupted and degraded.”
It is safe to assume that by “men” the Pope didn’t think of the workers only but also their exploiters and society as a whole.
All this to suggest that we dehumanize the Turk at the cost of dehumanizing not only ourselves, and our communities, but also our relationships with one another.
To see evidence of this all one has to do is follow any intramural controversy in our press or discussion forum on the internet, including this one.
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Assessing oneself as infallible may well be the surest symptom of terminal cretinism.

Remarks {contd...}

YOU WANT A FRIEND?
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You have a far better chance with a dog than with Homo sapiens.
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YOU CANNOT ARGUE WITH A BISHOP
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Church unity has become a Utopian illusion because so far no one has been successful in convincing two bishops that one of them owes his position of eminence to the KGB and the other to the CIA.
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YES, SIR! (I)
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Everything a man says to a tyrant is driven by cunning and hypocrisy. Tyrants know this and they are flattered. They prefer dishonest brown-nosers to honest critics.
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YES, SIR! (II)
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The two most hateful words in my dictionary. To those who say “Yes, sir!” are fine words because they stand for respect for authority, I say, maybe so, but you cannot solve problems by dropping your pants and bending over.
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MUCHO MACHO
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They believe God to be on their side and, as long as they follow the Guidance and regardless of what happens in this life, they will spend the next deflowering virgins, and no one speaks in defense of defenseless virgins.
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NOT GUILTY BY REASON OF INSANTIY
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Once upon a time there was a fearless driver who, when warned to avoid certain neighborhoods and to drive more defensively, would say, “As long as I follow traffic rules I have nothing to worry about.” And now, after the inevitable, all he does is stare into space with expressionless eyes and say, “It wasn't my fault. It wasn't my fault.”
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SITUATION/****UATION
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To be a posthumous success means to be a living failure, and for every writer that fails there are at least a dozen bishops who succeed.
In the Ottoman period, if it wasn't the Turks, it was TB.
In the Soviet period, if it wasn't a bullet in the neck, it was the Gulag.
In the Diaspora today, if it's not being dependent on the charity of swine it's the death of a thousand cuts.
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Friday, September 19, 2008

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Remarks {Contd...}

All politically motivated assertions contain a fraction of bias and bull. If a politician tells you the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, or two plus two makes four, ask yourself, “What's in it for him?” and if he shakes your hand, make sure there are no missing digits.
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There is a type of charlatan who not only pretends to know all he needs to know but also what's good for the rest of us, even though he has at no time even bothered to ask what is it that we or any one of us wants.
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What could be more naïve for a Turk than to believe Turkish politicians on the grounds that they are Turks. Likewise, what could be more naïve for an Armenian to believe Armenian politicians on the grounds that if they are Armenians they must be honest.
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They resent me because I speak of reality. What they want me to do is sing a lullaby. Literature to them is nothing but variations on “Yes im anoush Hayastani,” which is itself a variation on a poem by Pushkin; which, by the way and in passing, is an excellent proof of the literary theory that says, the greatest source of inspiration for poets is not reality but other poets. But then, this is true of all literary activity. Aristotle is unthinkable without Plato, or Plato without Socrates; or Marx without Hegel; or Dostoevsky without Dickens and Gogol.
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I remember once many years ago reviewing a collection of poems by one of our bishops. It was such a transparent imitation of Verlaine that it qualified as a clear-cut case of plagiarism and I said as much in my review, which was published in an American literary periodical. As far as I know, the good bishops never published another bad poem after that.
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I also remember to have reviewed a volume of poems by one of our political bosses. It was incomprehensible avant-garde trash, but to my eternal shame I praised it highly on the chauvinist theory – yes, I was once a dealer in chauvinist crapola – if it's Armenian it's bound to be good.
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Speaking of politicians and poets: If Zarian is right, Ottoman sultans have inspired more poetic tributes by Armenian poets in Istanbul than Armenian politicians in Yerevan.

POLITICS AND LITERATURE

All politically motivated assertions contain a fraction of bias and bull. If a politician tells you the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, or two plus two makes four, ask yourself, “What's in it for him?” and if he shakes your hand, make sure there are no missing digits.
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There is a type of charlatan who not only pretends to know all he needs to know but also what's good for the rest of us, even though he has at no time even bothered to ask what is it that we or any one of us wants.
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What could be more naïve for a Turk than to believe Turkish politicians on the grounds that they are Turks. Likewise, what could be more naïve for an Armenian to believe Armenian politicians on the grounds that if they are Armenians they must be honest.
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They resent me because I speak of reality. What they want me to do is sing a lullaby. Literature to them is nothing but variations on “Yes im anoush Hayastani,” which is itself a variation on a poem by Pushkin; which, by the way and in passing, is an excellent proof of the literary theory that says, the greatest source of inspiration for poets is not reality but other poets. But then, this is true of all literary activity. Aristotle is unthinkable without Plato, or Plato without Socrates; or Marx without Hegel; or Dostoevsky without Dickens and Gogol.
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I remember once many years ago reviewing a collection of poems by one of our bishops. It was such a transparent imitation of Verlaine that it qualified as a clear-cut case of plagiarism and I said as much in my review, which was published in an American literary periodical. As far as I know, the good bishops never published another bad poem after that.
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I also remember to have reviewed a volume of poems by one of our political bosses. It was incomprehensible avant-garde trash, but to my eternal shame I praised it highly on the chauvinist theory – yes, I was once a dealer in chauvinist crapola – if it's Armenian it's bound to be good.
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Speaking of politicians and poets: If Zarian is right, Ottoman sultans have inspired more poetic tributes by Armenian poets in Istanbul than Armenian politicians in Yerevan.

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Final Remarks

FINAL REMARKS
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The Irish say, “Ireland is a good place to die.”
Something similar could be said of our own beloved homeland.
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American political leaders may speak like thugs but ours live as thugs. So please, let's cut out the b.s. when we speak of our homeland.
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008
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TENTATIVE ANSWERS
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There are no final answers. Final answers are only for popes, ayatollahs, and fascists. If an answer does not raise two more questions, it cannot be right.
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To be slaves of former slaves (our case) also means to allow ourselves to be brainwashed by brain-damaged dupes.
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We like to say that nations that question the reality of our genocide are motivated by self-interest, thus implying nations that are on our side are morally superior. As for our own moral superiority: we take that for granted and we expect everyone else to do so.
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You cannot judge the conduct of a war by authorized press releases. Neither can you judge the past by authorized textbooks. For the very simple reason that those in authority care much more about their image than the truth.
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To silence dissent means to prepare the ground for a generation of executioners.
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There is a type of charlatan (Bush and Chaney come to mind) who will always be against compromise and for war, provided of course someone else does the killing and dying.

Remarks

ON LEADERSHIP
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Arthur Schlesinger in a 1967 entry: “It is depressing to think that three of the great world leaders of 1967 – Mao, de Gaulle, and Johnson – are slightly crazy (and most of the rest are mediocrities).
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On Nixon: “He was the greatest **** – probably the only **** – ever elected President of the United States.”
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If I were to write a text on our recent history, a good working title would be “A regime of ****s.” In all fairness to our leaders, I should add that some of them were well-meaning ****s. The fact remains however that none of them was equal to the task. I say this to warn all our politically ambitious upstarts that not everyone is cut out for the job. To surround oneself with like-minded yes-men is easy. To seduce an audience with rhetoric is also easy. But reality is a cold bitch. The rest is bull and bias, and I for one happen to be a born-again anti-bias fanatic.
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The chances are he who believes in God will also believe in the existence of honest politicians.
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Our genocide happened as surely as World War I and World War II; but its reasons, like the reasons of both world wars are not as one-sided as Turks and Armenians assert them to be.
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An atheist who thinks is closer to God than a believer who doesn't.
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Monday, September 15, 2008
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JOHNSON SPEAKS
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President Johnson to Henry Kissinger as quoted by Arthur Schlesinger in his JOURNALS: “Okay, we will do it the professor's [Kissinger's] way. But (glaring at Kissinger) if it doesn't work, I will personally cut your balls off.”
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HOMELAND
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When our patriotic writers in the Ottoman Empire spoke of “homeland” they meant Istanbul. Does anyone know how many of them actually set foot in Armenia?
In the 19th century, even writers born and raised on Armenian soil, preferred to live and work in Tiflis.
In the 20th century, anyone who was someone in Armenian literature in Armenia was betrayed to the authorities and was either shot or exiled to Siberia.
Zarian was the only major writer from the Diaspora who repatriated after Khrushchev's Thaw, and after being treated as a leper, he was either murdered or died as a result of an accidental fall.
The fate of another writer, Navasartian by name, the son of an eminent Tashnak leader in Egypt, was even more tragic if only because he was much younger than Zarian. He either committed suicide, was pushed, or (according to Zaroukian who wrote a book about him) got drunk, lost his balance, and fell to his death from a hotel balcony in Yerevan.
I met Navasartian twice: first time in Greece in the 1940s or early '50s, second time, about ten years later, in Canada. He was a mesmerizing speechifier.
As for writers after Independence, since they are alive and active on the Internet, I will let them speak for themselves.

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“We Armenians are products of the tribal mentality of Turks and Kurds, and this tribal mentality remains stubbornly rooted even among our leaders and elites.”
NIGOL AGHBALIAN
(1873-1947)
Statesman, literary scholar, educator.
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“A familiar figure in our collective existence is the prosperous and arrogant community leader who, by obstructing the path of all those who wish to reform
and improve our conditions, perpetuates a status quo whose sole aim is his own personal profit and aggrandizement.”
LEVON PASHALIAN
(1868-1943)
Athor, editor.
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“The Armenian Diaspora is losing its character. Our language, our literature, and our traditions are degenerating. Even our religious leaders have abandoned their calling and turned into cunning wheeler-dealers. Our publications thrive on meaningless controversies. I see charlatanism and cheap chauvinism everywhere
but not a single trace of self-sacrifice and dedication to principles and ideals. What's happening to us? Where are we heading? Quo vadis, O Armenian people?
SHAVARSH MISSAKIAN
(1884-1957)
Author, editor, critic.
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008
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ON HONESTY
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Because some Turks enjoy reading me, I am accused of anti-Armenianism; and because some Armenians enjoy reading Akcam and Pamuk, they are accused of insulting Turkishness. And this according to bureaucrats who take their marching orders from politicians, for whom honesty is a hostile concepts and truth enemy propaganda.
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ON PRAISE
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Praise I suspect because it makes me blind to my own failings. Criticism, even when motivated by prejudice, ignorance, or revenge, I welcome because it makes me stop and think, even if the interruption lasts no more than a fraction of a second.
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MONEY TALKS
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A publisher once sent me a review copy of an Armenian WHO'S WHO in which the average entry on benefactors was seven times longer than the entries on writers. I did not review it. Let the benefactors review it, I thought, with their calculating machines.
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ON JUSTICE
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Is there such a thing as a Supreme Court in Armenia? Who are the Justices? Does anyone know their names? Why is it that they never make headlines in our press? As things stand, not only are they anonymous but also invisible, and they might as well be non-existent.
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VAMPIRES
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There is a type of Turcocentric Armenian who judges his fellow Armenians by how much they hate Turks. To him the ideal Armenian is he whose favorite breakfast drink is neither coffee nor orange juice but Turkish blood.

Vampires

ARARAT
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About Frank Westerman's ARARAT, we read the following in THE SPECTATOR (London, August 30, 2008): “...a book of stupendous richness and complexity, a cornucopia or jumbled facts about geology, history, and since, woven into personal memoirs and travelogue that combines stories with information about religious belief, academic rivalry, portraits of fellow travellers, mountaineering history, politics, personalities and an abundance of lesser uncategorisable side-detail.” The author is described as “a clever, talented 43-year-old Dutchman of Puritan stock, [who] from his early twenties ceased to pray...and [whose] books have won important literary prizes.”
On the genesis of the book: “He first saw Ararat, the great mountain-volcano, from the Soviet side. It seemed to pull him.”
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Monday, September 22, 2008
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CONSENSUS?
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Our Turcocentric ghazetajis, international lawyers, eminent historians, and statesmen tell us we have a very strong case against the Turks, provided the necessary amount of funds is forthcoming. Deep in a dark corner of my mind however I cannot help suspecting that the nation is being victimized for the second time. Consider some of the relevant facts in the matter. Our politicians have been of no political use to us. Lawyers will be on the side of anyone who pays them for their services. No one trusts in the judgment of nationalist historians except their brainwashed dupes. As for ghazetajis, the less said about them the better. And now a question: Why is it that the only time these gentlemen develop a consensus is when they want to raise funds?
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ON TRADITIONS
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Whenever I hear talk of tradition or traditional values, I think of Winston Churchill's retort to an English admiral: “Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.” And Mahler's dictum: “There is no such thing as tradition. There is only stupidity and genius.”
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WHERE I STAND
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I am not pro-Turkish. Neither am I anti-Armenian. I am for human beings regardless of race, color and creed, and against hoodlums, ditto.
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SCHOOLS OF ARMENIAN CRITICISM
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There are two main schools of Armenian literary criticism: the first consists in calling the writer a damn fool, and the second in stating that what he says is a lot of crap.
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Tuesday, September 23, 2008
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COMPASS QUOTATIONS
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I call them that because they tell us where we were, where we are, and where we are heading. And I for one never get tired of rereading them.
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“What kind of people are we? What kind of leadership is this? Instead of compassion, mutual contempt. Instead of reason blind instinct. Instead of common sense, fanaticism. They speak of the cross and nail us to it again as they speak.”
ANTRANIK ZAROUKIAN
(1912-1989)
Poet, novelist, critic, editor.
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“All our religious, political, and cultural institutions share a single aim, the survival of the nation. If the nation perishes, neither Echmiadzin nor Antelias, not even God in his heaven, can be of any help to us.”
SIMON VRATSIAN
(1882-1969)
Statesman. Last Prime Minister of the Republic of
Armenia
(1918-1920). TO BE CONTD.....

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A LAND OF 1001 WATERGATES
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A Watergate-style scandal is unthinkable in Armenia. When told the President had lied to the people, an Armenian is quoted as having said: “So what? They lie to us all the time.”
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MEMOS TO A YOUNG WRITER
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Never insult readers who insult you. Analyze them. No insult can be as lethal as a good analysis.
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Once about ten years ago I called one of my borodakhos and anpardavan detractors “an inbred moron.” Ever since then he has been trying to get even by reading and contradicting everything I say even when doing so means proving me right.
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Early success means early death. Mozart, Schubert, Chopin – dead in their thirties. Shakespeare, Beethoven, Dostoevsky – dead in their fifties. Another disadvantage of dying young is that you will never have a chance to read the obituaries of your detractors. Aim therefore at posthumous immortality.
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ON BELIEF SYSTEMS
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They are all alike in the sense that they teach the brain to be a useless organ and thinking for oneself a dangerous enterprise that may lead to heresy and eternal hellfire. In that sense fundamentalist fanatics of all religions are more vegetable than animal, and more mineral than vegetable.
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ON GENOCIDE RECOGNITION
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We have a better chance of achieving our goal if we appeal to the conscience of civilized Turks. To do so, however, we must first civilize ourselves.
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ON BEING POLITICALLY CORRECT
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The only reason we have not yet become a recognizable object of ridicule is that we keep talking about massacres, and massacres, as everyone knows, are no joke.
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QUOTATION OF THE DAY
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Noel Coward: “How would I like to be remembered? By my charm, you silly bugger.”
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Friday, September 26, 2008
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UN HOMBRE CON COJONES
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During the Soviet era, I remember, one of our brilliant academics, and no doubt a proud descendant of David of Sassoun, visited the Homeland and upon his return published a ferocious attack on lazy hotel waiters who, it seems, responded to his commands with the blinding speed of Slow Poke Rodriguez. This gentleman, it appears, was accustomed to dealing with waiters who moved with the alacrity of Speedy Gonzelez. And to think that we trust the education of our boys and girls to this type of elitist riffraff and crème de la scum.
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MEDIOCRITIES AND PLAGIARISTS
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If a writer is Armenian and is not internationally known, like say, Arlen and Saroyan, he is generally dismissed as a mediocrity. If, one the other hand, he is good, he is accused of plagiarism. Even Zarian was dismissed as a plagiarist by both Oshagan pere et fils. And worse! I once heard one of our academics assert that Zarian was a hireling of the KGB. Since I have myself been accused of being an agent of the KGB, the CIA, the Mossad, and the Grey Wolves, I feel justified in adopting a skeptical stance towards all such charges.
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SWAN SONG
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If I ever write an autobiography I will title it THE SWAN SONG OF A JACKASS: THE MEMOIRS OF AN ARMENIAN WRITER.
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QUOTATION OF THE DAY
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Charles Dickens: “It's over, and can't be helped, and that's one consolation, as they always say in Turkey, when they cut the wrong man's head off.”
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Saturday, September 27, 2008
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FORGIVE MY FRENCH
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Even senile old men who can't get it up refuse to die. How does one go about convincing boys and girls in their teens and twenties to go to war, to kill and die? Leave it to the elites, the educated classes, the leaders – the true creative forces in human history. Beside them writers, poets, and philosophers are nothing but hopeless mediocrities who deal in empty verbiage.
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By ridiculing our elites, I am told, I alienate the young, the naïve, and the innocent, thus threatening the survival of the nation. To which I can only say, a nation that has survived centuries of corruption, incompetence, ruthless oppression, wars, massacres, dispersion, and subhuman existence in foreign slums should not have any trouble surviving the opinions of a minor scribbler.
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When asked why he drank so much, Odian, an alcoholic, is quoted as having said, “To drown my sorrows.” Was he successful in drowning them?” he was asked next. “No,” he replied,”the buggers are excellent swimmers.” So are our bosses, bishops, and benefactors. For over a thousand years our writers from Khorenatsi, Raffi, Baronian and Odian to Shahnour, Zarian, and Massikian have exposed their dirt to no effect.
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And consider what's happening today in America. We are expected to trust the judgment of a bunch of millionaires telling us -- including slum-dwellers like myself -- that the economy is in deep **** and unless something is done pronto we may be in deeper ****.
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Dupes have no use for their brains because they believe everything they are told by someone with a beard, a title, and a degree. Somewhere Shakespeare writes “life is a tale told by an idiot.” It would be more accurate to say that it is a tale told by smart operators to a bunch of retards.

Controversial Relfections Contd...

MARX
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Many nasty things have been said against philosophy by philomorons. But consider the case of Karl Marx who single-handed (with a little help from Plato, Hegel, and Engels) reshaped the worldview of billions of people from China to Cuba, and with it, the political map of the world.
And Marx was wrong.
Now then, imagine if you can the damage a philosopher who is right can inflict on mankind and tremble.
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NAREGATSI
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Only Armenians who have not read a single line by Naregatsi think of me as anti-Armenian, or too self-critical or analytical. There is more self-criticism in a single page by Naregatsi than in everything I have written so far.
Sartre said “Hell is other people.”
Naregatsi could have echoed Flaubert's “Bovary c'est moi,” by saying “L'enfer c'est moi.”
To Dante, hell is an operatic horror show.
To Naregatsi, it's an invisible place deep within us.
Jesus said, “The Kingdom of God is within you.”
Naregatsi says, “So is the Devil's Empire.”
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DEFINITION
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Literature: Art irritating life.
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SHAKESPEAREA & CO.
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In Shakespeare, we have the confident voice of a rising empire;
in Milton, one of the most eloquent defenders of free speech;
in Narekatsi, the moans and ululations of a disintegrating kingdom;
in Sylva Kaputikian, a political opportunist and dupe
who operated on the assumption that Sovietism was the universal religion of the future;
in Gostan Zarian, the whole gamut of Armenianism:
from intense nationalism bordering on chauvinism
to disenchantment, resignation, rage, and the silence of despair and disgust.

GENIUS KHANS
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There are some Armenians so dumb that not only do they believe in their own assessment of themselves that they are offended when no one else does.
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SUSPICION
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Whenever a reader insults me anonymously, I always assume him to be either a bishop, the son of a bishop, or someone equally disreputable.
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DECLINE AND FALL
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One way to explain the decline and fall of Armenian literature is by saying that first-rate writers and fourth-rate readers are mutually exclusive concepts.
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THE BUSH DOCTRINE
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It has been pointed out to me on several occasions that it is wrong being rude to my critics.
Rude to my critics? Never!
As far as I can remember, I have at no time been rude to them.
Rude to kibitzers the purpose of whose oneupmanship is to take better aim when they piss on me – that's different. I don't call that being rude. I call it preemptive strike.
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PHILISTINES
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There is a familiar type of odar philistine who connects Parisians to pissoirs, Italians to pizza, and Armenians to pilaf and shish-kebab. To be fair, in this connection I should make mention of the efforts of our Turcocentric pundits who have been doing their utmost to change that false impression.
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HUNGARIAN RHAPSODY
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Zsa Zsa Gabor: “My dad told me, 'Anything worth having is worth waiting for,' so I waited until I was fifteen.”
At which point she fell for Atatьrk. That's what I call a brilliant debut.
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Saturday, October 11, 2008
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CONFESSIONS
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Lord Byron: “Who would write who had anything better to do?”
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There are days when flipping hamburgers sounds like a more useful occupation to me. What could be more satisfying than feeding the hungry? It may not be as good as the miracle of the loaves and the fishes, granted. But it comes damn close to it. My only consolation: any writer who is unanimously rejected by partisan as well as non-partisan editors and reviled by garbage-mouth readers can't be all bad.
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BEAN-COUNTERS
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I can understand laymen not reading the small print and being taken in by predatory lenders. What about chief executive officers and their small armies of advisers, assistants, accountants, and lawyers? What were they up to beside counting beans and pulling their dicks? If they too were taken in by cunning operators, how to explain the fact that they came out on top? The stench of conspiracy is so powerful that it would make a Bolshevik out of Senator McCarthy if he were alive.
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THE REALITY PRINCIPLE
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Some people are so outrageously wrong that they don’t have to be corrected. Sooner or later life, facts, the reality principle will speak to them much louder than any logical argument or appeal to common sense and decency.