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Purpose of cynicism

December 27,2013 15:04

Although this is the last editorial for this year, however, I can not accommodate to merely the New Year style, and I would like to talk about a wide-spread phenomenon: impudence (stubbornness, cynicism).

What is missing in Shmice’s life? It seems like nothing: sit in your corner and eat your businesses’ money. But, no. He wants to prove something. What? That he can “take precedence” of any opposition or journalist with his literacy and intellectual level. With what? Naturally, with his irreverent vocabulary, maybe, with his his bodyguards’ punches. In other words, every time, the representative of the authorities should prove that “nothing can stop him”.

The same for Taron Margaryan. Why does he need the PhD title? Neither his salary, nor his reputation will grow from it. Nor, of course, he has the time and desire to be engaged in research and come up with an inventions in this field. The purpose is different: to humiliate and degrade sciences and those engaged in sciences, and, ultimately, devalue not only academic titles, but, the notion, intellectual activities. “I can do whatever I want. And you, Rector of the University, and members of Academic Council and HQC, will not utter a word and will declare me a scientist,” here is his “message.”

The problem is the same, “nothing can stop me.” That’s the reason that the mayor understands the phrase “defend the thesis” as a “defense from the journalists”, which was carried out by young Republican members of “Bazeh” headed by the Rector of Economic Sciences. And the problem is not that the journalists would suddenly see that the mayor does not read text written in advance: Taron Margaryan and his “bodyguards” are absolutely indifferent to such findings. There is a problem of proving own all-mighty, the right to arbitrariness. Just as it should be in a country of the “Customs territory”. Кого хочу помилую,/Кого хочу – казню/. Закон – мое желание!/Кулак – моя полиция!/Удар искросыпительный,/Удар забодробительный,/Удар скуловорррот. (I would mercy whomever I want./I would execute whomever I want./My desires are the law! / My fist – my police! /A flashing punch. /A furious punch. /A cheekbone punch.)

The same in the international relations. Do you think that it is a problem for Russia to sell gas at a price in an area where the number of subscribers is ten times less than in Moscow? No, it’s a trivia. It was set an objective to write down clauses in the agreement that would offend our dignity: we would do whatever we want for 30 years.

So, whether in small or large scales, the mechanism is the same. Also, the forms of protecting human or national dignity are the same. This is to come for the next year.

ARAM ABRAHAMYAN

 

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