The post-revolution is a time period of politicized approaches. What has happened in the past is being rejected, instead of coming up with more careful and reasonable approaches.
Chess is no longer a game for the wise, because the former authorities encouraged it.
Tigran Mansuryan is not a great thinker, since he never had any conflict with any authorities.
Even tumors are not so bad anymore, if someone whom society now rejects has one.
They say that things have changed. But it hasn’t been the first or last time that things have changed- things will change even more. There is still a post-revolutionary sentiment in society, which will decrease in six months. There can be no other way, regardless of the quality of the authorities and the sentiment. What was created, started, and born, beginning with the human mind and ending with the most difficult technology, will be destroyed, will rot, and will one day become useless.
With regards to the examples I gave above, one day it will become clear that chess is the game for the wise, regardless of who the president is. Mansuryan is one of the greatest thinkers, and illnesses will remain illnesses, whether the Dalai Lama has one, or whether someone who is accused of a terrible crime does. Of course, after the next change, something new will be disclosed that will be condemnable.
During this careless post-revolutionary period, representatives of the political team that carried out the revolution need to be in power; there is no other way. The “red commissaries” need to make all the same mistakes that are special to such time periods, from holding coats to having summer villas and expensive cars. In order to prevent their mistakes and extremities from posing a danger to the state, they need to leave everything else to professionals.
Let’s look at the Public Radio and TV channel. What would a commissary do if they came to replace the current executive director? They will, naturally, encourage all the values of the revolution and will give orders and instructions to professionals who have remained from their high position of power. What would a professional do? They will be able to differentiate between temporary (what will only be important only during the upcoming months) and permanent with the help of their own experience, putting the emphasis on those values. But I have no doubt about the fact that public, non-private newspapers need to encourage long-lasting values, and not follow commercial benefits.
Aram Abrahamyan
