A great part of “sensations” is based on the “waiting for the end”
If you spend at least 10 minutes casting a glance on the headlines of the articles in the websites, then we can assume world-shocking events in Armenia and the planet every second, which mandatorily will lead to the global or at least local apocalypse. “The relations between the president and the prime minister are extremely strained,” “Armenia vanquished Azerbaijan,” “Azerbaijan vanquished Armenia,” “The decision to sell Karabakh is adopted,” “Putin has delivered an ultimatum to Obama,” “Obama has delivered an ultimatum to Putin,” “The Islamic state is collapsed,” “Caliphate from Amsterdam to Vladivostok is now a reality.”
Of course, it is a strive to create a cheap sensation on the surface. No media in the world has sufficient information to argue such things. And no argument, as a rule, is presented in the content of the articles, which would substantiate such titles. But what is the reason for appearing such titles? Why do people yearn to read stuff like this? There is one psychological moment here, which can be called (non-scientifically, of course) “waiting for the end.”
We are inclined to believe that the world or some of its parts will eventually come to a situation that will persist forever. But to wait it will happen, it is not reasonable, such a situation will never happen. If, let’s say, the entire military potential of all countries in the world is directed against the “Islamic state”, and within few months, there will be Islamist militants in the region, then I assure you that 5, 10, 15 years later, anyway, a group of “believers” will appear in any corner of the world, who will take a gun into his hands and cry, “Allah Akbar”, “Hey Hitler” or something like that. (I take the word “religious” in quotes deliberately because the true faith of any religion cannot oppose your group to other groups). Hence, fixing the final, complete and solid state is not reasonable; neither the “Islamic state” would be defeated, nor the Eurasian “caliphate” will be created. Neither we are able to vanquish Azerbaijan, nor they to us.
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Historical experience also shows that there is nothing solid. In my teenage years, the vast majority (me too) of the Eurasian continent was confident that the geopolitical realities that existed after 1945, especially the division of “socialist” and “capitalist” camps is forever, but in the end of 1980, it turned out that it is not so. It is another matter that there was a certain stability for 40 years, which had both negative and positive aspects, particularly for sciences and culture. In the near future, it seems that no such several decades lasting stability period is expected.
But most interestingly, as nothing ends, nothing lasts forever and nothing obtains a solid appearance, so as nothing begins. For example, when our opposition members say, “to restore the constitutional procedure,” they probably assume that there was such a procedure in Armenia and then, at some moment, it has disappeared. The same can be said about the positive things. When we say that the Armenian independent state was “born” 25 years ago, we must take into account that if before it and particularly, in the 20th century, there were no Armenians independent and non-independent states, nothing “would be born.” No good or bad thing, in short, begins and ends. Each birth is the result of previous births, each “death” is not actually a death but a phase of transformation.
Well, what remains to the escalation or “discharge” of the relations of public officials and politicians, then there is nothing temporary in the world than this.
Aram ABRAHAMYAN
