What can a man feel who has not followed the political events for almost two weeks and is trying to fill this gap on September 1?
Have you experienced such a feeling: you have come to a smoked room from clean air where people have already taken a significant dosage of vodka and are not friendly at all towards each other affected by the alcohol? I, anyway, have such a feeling. It is possible that in few days this unhealthy air would seem normal to me, perhaps I will also start talking “like a drunk.” But now…
As far as I understand, the main events of this week were the meetings of the political parties with the president on the constitutional amendments. A test by which the parties are divided into two groups: “the regime servants” (those who have met) and “nice revolutionaries” (those who did not meet). If Armenia’s entire fate were dependent on the constitutional amendments or “non-amendments”, then even in that case it would be wrong to put this watershed, because any watershed, in my opinion, gives off a “drunk” smell of the “Bolshevik-Menshevik” fight.
Measuring the level of sincerity of the “revolutionaries” (the Bolsheviks) and the “servants” (the Mensheviks) is almost impossible. Once, a French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre noted that the difference between the true feelings and their painstaking imitation is trivial. If you give concessions for the sake of someone else, and if you do not pretend to be good to go to these concessions, the situation is almost the same. Because the second one, in case of pretending, the man sooner or later begins believing in his “being nice.”
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Putting dividing lines between people, nations and parties, I repeat, is bad in itself, but making the constitutional amendments a stage of “good and evil” deadly battle is ridiculous, you can take out the sward-and-gun for occasions that are more serious and destroy each other, if there is such a wish. The problem, as many people already mention, is not the Constitution or even the reproduction.
The problem, let it not sound pompous, is building a politics on new principles, not only the government but also the entire political system. We are not in a situation to keep living with Armenian ordinary patterns designed in the 1990s. It’s time to ventilate the room and to stop the fight for a glass of vodka.
Aram ABRAHAMYAN
