Recently, our colleague Shushan Doydoyan is appointed to the position of the Head of Personal Data Protection Department of the Staff of the Ministry of Justice of Armenia. It seems that there should be no disagreements at least for Shushan’s being worthy for this position, and everyone should have wished her success. It appears, not. Ill-wishers popped up even here, claiming that since she awarded a “golden key” to Poghos and a “rusty lock” to Petros, that’s why she was appointed to this title.
Certainly, inciting lower human instincts, including jealousy, is the easiest way to appear fair-minded and brave. This is also a means to achieve “public consolidation” to some extent. “Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as the common hatred towards anything,” wrote Sergei Dovlatov. A question arises, “Who are these nonentities that receive apartments?” And people’s blood begins to boil at once. Am I not worthier to be given this or that thing? But if I say that this or that person is a nonentity, then I consider myself such a greatness that I assume the right to determine who is the greatness and who is the nonentity.
Such a self-centered way of thinking has numerous negative aspects. The high level of personal ambitions prevents consolidating on any issue. Let’s take at least the change of power, which has been the number one goal of the opposition in the whole history of independent Armenia. Without going back into the history, let’s discuss today’s situation. Let’s assume, “true” and “radical” opposition’s task is a “day before” change of power. Let’s assume the population is also for it; grandmothers and grandfathers, as always, show all five fingers as if saying “Damn you!”
How are the radical oppositions visualizing the process of a change of power? One part says, let’s take the people out to the street and make a revolution. The other part says, since by the new Constitution, the speaker of the National Assembly will rule the country, it is necessary to explain to the people that Serzh Sargsyan will be taking this position, and when the people understand it, it will say “no” to the referendum, and it will be a change of power in itself. But Paruyr Hayrikyan says, if you follow my formulation of “perfect democracy”, everything will be fine. Hence, there is no common agenda for the change of regime. Personal ambitions – as much as you want.
But if such notions are more or less natural in the political environment, then among the lawyers, such phenomena are a novelty for the Armenian reality. I wonder what the lawyers want from each other.
Aram ABRAHAMYAN
