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Wrong Direction

The bloodiest century in all of human history, a century that marked the near-annihilation of the Armenian people, witnessed two world wars, holocausts, ethnic cleansing campaigns and left millions of humans in inhumane conditions, displaced and traumatized for generations to come, is being allowed by the great thinkers of our time to reinvent itself into traditions that continue into the 21st century. No sooner than imperialism was thought to have retired into legendary tales in history books, globalization became the rallying cry for the post-industrial quest to fuel the new world economic order. In this new century when mankind is amassing more information and advancing knowledge and science that in any other period in the history of civilization, humans are left questioning and contemplating why their loved ones are being butchered, abducted, held captive and their human rights violated not just in Iraq and Guantanamo, but in Yerevan, the Sudan and in Europe and the United States...