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Grim, very grim is our present. Quo Vadimus…

Seda Gbranian-Melkonian 

It’s Monte’s birthday again. A time of accountability and reflection on what we have and have not done.

However, when I think about the past several months, I hardly find anything positive to report in the Armenian reality. In an atmosphere where economic interests overshadow everything else, an empty country looks at us. A country, whose population gradually seeks conditions of survival wherever it happens to be, since the “Royalty” does not seem to be very interested in what happens to its “subjects.”

Perhaps the only movement we can see is the few backward steps concerning migration, the draining of the aquifer and other probable drainage processes. Grim, very grim is our present. Quo Vadimus… 

On 1.11.88 Monte writes to me “…The last ten days or so of news about the 3 California Grey Whales has shown us how unbalanced people’s priorities can be. It’s absolutely true that the 3 million starving people in Sudan, the 2 million in Ethiopia, the 2 million in Mozambique, the millions starving in the rest of Africa, the 25 million homeless in Bangladesh, the vicious capitalist exploitation in Brazil (and other counties), the chemical war against the Kurdish people, and all the other wars and unbearable treatment of human-beings all over the world-without even  mentioning our own people’s situation- deserve more attention than 3 whales which are unlikely to survive anyway. It’s incredible how people can be so cold and indifferent to each other. Nonetheless, ecological problems are extremely important for the survival of human life, too. Those 3 whales don’t represent a true ecological problem, so it’s a bad example. The root of the problem is economic and political, but also demographic. In reality the root of ecological problems is the same as that of other problems affecting human-beings such as war, exploitation, unemployment, lack of medical aid, etc. etc. The source of all of this lies in narrow short term, isolated economic interests which totally conflicts with the true interests of the people. People who support such economic policies are true criminals.”

I don’t think anything needs to be added…

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NAREG
SHAAAT DGAR ER QRUTYUNT SEDA
H.
No, Nareg, she hit the nail on the head.

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