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Posted by pancho (Guest) - Monday, February 11 2008, 6:37:04 (CET)
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...I say it's "stupid" to use English words and concepts you clearly don't understand...but I get called "stupid" for saying so...when it's so damn obvious who is the stupid one. It isn't a question of Hanna Hajjar being "misguided"...getting bad advice, or being ignorant of such meanings....after all there's nothing wrong or bad about being ignorant...we all are. The problem comes when you don't mind STAYING ignorant, especially when all the tools you need to solve the problem, such as dictionaries and real history books, are readily available.

... it 's one thing to insist that 2+2=5 and never try to build anything. It's an error. But, if you refuse, adamantly, to learn the correct answer...you could be called stupid...and you go farther than that, if you decide to build an airplane, or span a river with a bridge, using 2+2=5....well, seems to me that's more than stupid..it's almost criminaly insane.

...when bragging about the monuments I wasn't saying I'm a nice person...or should be honored or loved. That's besides the point. The issue was; is a person capable of doing what he or she claims to want to do...or attempts to do? Let her be a supreme bitch and the man a great bastard...so what? We're interested in the outcome of the proposed task, not the personalities of those building the projects.

...take something so simple and elementary as knowing the correct meaning of words and their usage. For example, we hear so much about our nationalists being "persecuted"(from them, mostly)...you'd think the people making these claims and believing them knew what the word meant and when it can be applied. I come along....read all this stuff, read what their organizations in Iraq were claiming and demonstrating for, and I sez to myself, "Self, that sounds more like sedition, which I know is illegal in every country...so let me tell our people that they should not be surprised or holler too much when they find themselves in jail or the hospital...and they should be very very careful in trying to fool the World...and governments, who all know what sedition is and what it leads to in terms of prosecution".

...am I thanked for this service? Am I loved and petted and stroked...does Aprim send me flowers and a note which reads, "Dear Fred, thank you so much for explaining to us the reason Saddam cracked our skulls when we marched in Baghdad calling him a usurper, love, Fred Aprim". Not ONE word of thanks.

...it's these kinds of things that I think make it not an "insult" when I call these people stupid...but merely a fair reflection of what they actually are...or are acting like. How else can you explain it? Do they think it's particularly bright of them? Do they think they should NOT be punished for it? If you play on the freeway, you can't cry to the world that a CAR hit you!!!

...my method of getting an Assyrian public monument installed, after 2500 years without one...wasn't stupid. Obviously...cause there it stands. And another one waits in the wings. You can call me an asshole, an insulting, arrogant prick...but you can't say I'm stupid...at least not about one area that I have most practical experience in and happens to be my profession.

..and that's the same criterion I apply to our nationalists, historians, writers and leaders...all of whom are telling us that they too have their own area of expertise and that I should stick to my own. But that's so clearly not the case. It's so obvious that they aren't even skilled amateurs at what they claim to be expert in...our historians, aren't historians, they write pop-history perfectly tailored to stroke the prejudices they already hold. In other words, they LOVE 5 as the answer to 2+2=? Our leaders also aren't leaders...in fact you could call them our "Dividers" and you'd be a lot closer to the truth. Our nationalists also aren't nationalists. Because there is NO nation...just the word which, again, they not only don't understand but REFUSE to learn the true meaning of. Not only that, but there isn't a chance in hell of there BEING a nation the way their "expert" minds tell them to get one.

...if I were built along the same lines and approached a monument the way they approach "history" or "making a nation"...I'd have, first of all, never bothered to make any sculpture at all for starters. I'd then proceed to take every wrong step and turn imaginable, all the time insisting that "I know". And when the first mess I made fell over, I wouldn't pause to take a breath but plunge right in on another and then another....just like these nationalists, who assured us that the war against Iraq was JUST what we needed and would bring "golden opportunities", didn't skip a beat, after Kurdistan was created over Nineveh, and came right back at us with NEW PLANS which, if we would agree to REALLY work hard this time, and pay our taxes to Maggie and accpet Aprim's leadership, would SURELY get us "what we deserve"...

..this is stupid, in the extreme. I don't know what else to call it. And the really beautiful part of it..and what shows so well what I mean by freedom allowing people to unravel themselves, is that I am the one called STUPID for pointing out such an obvious Truth...one which is reaffirmed daily right before our eyes. See...to really SEE things in this insane assyria, makes you "stupid" to the inmates of assyria. To be foolish and blind and deceptive and dishonest and insincere makes you a HERO and a PATRIOT.

...what can you do?

note: can't wait for the little guy and his response. As if more evidence of what I just said was needed. But, it gives him somehting to do.

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