Yesterday, one of my friends noticed that I am indecisive and thinking too much. This assertion was made entirely in the positive sense as my merit. However, it, of course, also has its negative sides. I cannot solve crosswords, I am too bad in filling the IQ tests, I am not active in “What? Where? When?” game. In addition, I read slowly, although I remember what I read decades after.
But if we put my personal problem aside and return to the principle of thinking – not thinking, then I probably would have agreed that thinking too long hampers great historical activities. Let’s take, for instance, any of the parties. When the Leader says, so-and-so is a criminal, the party members are obligated to stone at him, when the Leader as a result of the political analysis comes to the conclusion that the same person is the savior of the nation, the party member began to glorify him. If the Leader does a new analysis and decides that the current leader of the country will save the nation, the party mass will also find substantiations for it.
Of course, there emerge individuals who say, “Stop, let’s think about how it happened.” This very people hamper the progress, impede the course of history. Suppose in 1917, the Bolshevik Party was lead not by Lenin and Trotsky, but, let’s say, Plekhanov. He would think long where to put the “Aurora” warship, when it should fire, whether it is necessary for the striped shirts sailors to invade the Winter Palace. By the time he was thinking,, perhaps the ad-hoc government would have found a way out to prevent the event of the history. No, the revolution should be carried out by decisive Bolsheviks.
Though intelligent people hamper the historical progress, sometimes nevertheless they are still worth listening to exclude possible blunders. To listen by blaming, ridiculing, and maybe stoning. But there is a sense in one place – to keep this discussion and judgments containing “file” in mind. Who knows, maybe one day it will be necessary.
In short, intelligent people are also necessary. They certainly cannot be many to form masses. Masses should obey the instructions of decisive people. But intelligent people and individuals are also necessary. They do not make a history. They are just thinking. Also urge some people to think. Sometimes, thinking is not unnecessary.
ARAM ABRAHAMYAN
