Grim, very grim is our present. Quo Vadimus=85
00:03, November 25, 2013
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=85
On 1.11.88 Monte writes to me `=85The 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=85