Yesterday, a woman with mental health problems approached me and assured me that I am aware of the incident happened to her, and skipping the “part” of what had happened to her, she immediately passed to the basic “pretention” of “who is accountable for it?” To my question of what has happened to her, she could not answer anyway and in her “judgments” did the next step, unexpectedly revealing those responsible, they turned to be the Jews. The latter are not a new target for Armenians. About one and a half years ago, a similar man approached me on the street, who introduced himself as a writer (I think, his name was Khachik), and also without long preface, began to talk about the “Jewish conspiracy”. Just like the Russian well-known note, which can be translated roughly as follows: “If there is no water in the tap, it’s because the Jews drank it.”
If a person needs a psychiatrist, then it is very natural that he is focused on an idea, and some hostile force is the core of this idea that prevents him to live and thrive. Similarly, of course, works the propaganda, because its target is to wash out people’s brain, making people a little “mad”, and the preacher, with or without any occasion, alludes to the common “enemy”. If you ask any opposition member, for example, who is to blame for the Armenian national football team defeated the German national team, without thinking for a moment he would say, “the regime, unless this regime leaves, our football-players will defeat one after another.”
The interpretations of the “interested” parties regarding the Armenian helicopter attack are on the same level. Our Russia “admiring” politicians and political scientists are convinced that it is just the provocation of this country. And vice versa, our Russian colleagues prove that these are conspiracies by the West, allegedly the West has told Aliyev to carry out a provocation, otherwise we would carry out a “Maidan” with you. And why not to assume that Azerbaijan’s current leader, to put it mildly, is not a smart man and does not calculate his moves? Superpowers, of course, are capable to everything, but, I think, it is not worthy to make unfounded judgments based on own antipathy.
The “New Times” political party leader, Aram Karapetyan, illustrates a wonderful example. Former finance minister, David Sargsyan, has arranged so that his wife would receive a 10-million maternity leave. Is this the fault of the Kremlin or the White House? This young man is not short of money, nor wit, nor the professionalism. You would say that he lacks for morality. True, but appearing in the government “automatically” implies certain moral norms or, more precisely, lack of universal moral norms. However, this is already a subject for another talk.
ARAM ABRAHAMYAN
