As we know, we think about us better than actually are. Dale Carnegie’s famous book described a case, in which the murderer and gangster before the death penalty declare that he has devoted his whole life to humanity. So, like many of our officials are confident that in their lifetime they have done benefitting work to the nation and deserve to have some kind of material goods. Recently, one of such officials angrily called me and asked whether he does not deserve of having a “modest house” after so many years of work, which, however, would require his approximately 300-year salary to build it.
I would like to say that it is not always that people are rigged saying that they are honest and pious; some people actually think that they are just like that. Shifting the question from moral dimension to legal requires a strict control over government officials, first, as well as MPs, for it is obvious that they are enriched in some way by using public resources. Do they think that this use is a fair compensation for their “suffering” in the public office; it is ultimately their own business.
The reports that they are presenting today are just ridiculous. According to these reports, the vast majority of officials receive less revenues than our citizens with high (“white”) living wage, although it is obvious that these officials actually are unable to provide reporting not only about their “houses”, but also about the gates and fences of these “houses”. Not to mention about their sons and brothers who are all without exception “successful businessmen” and, of course, are “absolutely worth” of gorgeous life.
On the background of these “semi-saint” officials, the former “completely saint” mayor of Gyumri, Vardan Ghukasyan, is distinguished, who, I think, sincerely believes that he is a pious and God-fearing man. And, when from time to time Mr. Ghukasyan’s family members’ criminal exploits became known, former Mayor gets genuinely angry and vents all his anger on the media. (Although, for the sake of fairness it should be said that “competing clan” is not anything better than Ghukasyans and he solves his “competitive problems” by shootings, causing damage personally to Ghukasyan and his family members).
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Now, when video of shootings in the direction of the current mayor’s house are published, I am sure that Ghukasyan’s legally non-existent “office” (recently these “offices” have been multiplied) will again hurl invectives at the journalists, and the same will be done of representatives of the “office” acting under nicknames.
What can we do, people’s self-esteem is usually far from reality.
ARAM ABRAHAMYAN
