The prime minister recently spoke several times on the issue of garbage, for which he has received ironic comments: whether there is any need to talk about such a secondary issue. But the attitude towards this problem, we can say, is the model of our social thinking. “We live in dirt, we have many things to do on the spot, we complain of money, of this and that, when we are lazy to stoop and throw away the stone from here that is in our way”, Karen Karapetyan said at a meeting with local self-government bodies in Tavush region.
Not doing your best and only complaining in the air comes from the “wrong” logic of our social thinking. Accordingly, the number one problem is to have a good system (and many people think that “excavating” “good” president, “good” prime minister, “good” ministers and the deputies from an unknown place is the solution of the problem), and the second problem is that the citizens behave as citizens in this system, not as a lumpen mass. The second problem is conditioned by the first within the framework of the logic spread in Armenia.
If we simplify this, the scheme is as follows: give me a good system and I will behave properly, I will not steal, and kill, I will not pollute the city and the country, and I will not justify all kinds of reprehensible acts.
I think this logic is wrong, if I may say, it’s not dialectical. Because the system is created by the behaviour and evaluation of each of us. You do not throw an empty bottle on the street, pick the thrown one, you do not justify the one who has thrown with “regime defects”: the street eventually is being cleaned from garbage. You do not insult anyone, and delete all the insults from your page, regardless of whom those are addressed to, only correct statements are found on your page. You condemn any violence and any call for violence, instead of saying: “well, people already did not see any other way out”, and the level of violence goes down. You do not take a bribe, and do not say: “well, what to do, the man keeps a family”, and corruption decreases.
“Garbage causing” systems exist through the efforts and encouragement of the majority of society. “Garbage-free” systems are created by the will and struggle of the majority of the society. By a peaceful struggle, of course. For the armed struggle, in my opinion, is the most “garbage causing”. Especially when it comes to success.
Aram ABRAHAMYAN
