When an entire nation is sinking into oblivion, it is difficult to maintain human shadows. We must say that for some, genocide is only a problem of bilateral agreements or, even worse, simpy an article into a future protocol. Because for them, everything is negotiable. It is better to live and stop reminiscing about the past, they say. To these people, the memory is disposable food, a lost illusion that is meaningless thereon.

The substance is the future, they say. On the other hand, under the guise of the existence of heroes of the past, they don’t hesitate to become traitors so they can argue that they are saving the future. And because of them, the vocabulary is simplified. Cooperation is only a pact,the pact, a necessary compromise, and the compromise, a simple collusion. In that simple world, Voltaire’s Candide would be a wiseman and as for Socrates, he would become a philosopher of the absurd. Despite these, human shadows exist in the likeness of erstwhile dragons. And even if we trampled their memory they wouldn’t cease to bring us the light through their actions in the past. The victims of genocide are not the only victims.

In fact,we forget their children who couldn’d have been born, who could not become men and women capable of becoming parents in turn, in order to plant the country with stones and iron letters. This, of course, suits a specific diplomacy that is content in studying the problems as if a Markov chain, or distributions without a tail. They do not realize that we know and that their audacity is not assimilated but only with their ignorance. Our problem is not the seat of the State, but the State of the seat. As for the diaspora, is not guilty but only of one thing, as it attempts to avoid the killing of the memory. If it’s content to accept an intolerable state of mind, it’s because it’s old and weak, no other option is permissible under these circumstances.

The stakes are huge for us to content ourselves into approaching it through political party quarrels of mediocrity and mizery. Small countries, even when they have a long history, can not encourage them, or else they cease to exist because they become overcome by the oblivion of the societies of indifference. Human shadows are present in our spirit, as the grey cells in our brain. It’s those that give a purpose to our actions. Because, whether we accept it or not, the Armenian people are not a nation of victims,like the Turkish barbarism would have wanted , but a nation of survivors, which doesn’t cease to show to humanity clearly, that the survivors have one future and that, that future derives from the gift of intelligence. This is the vision of human shadows.