After “serving their people” for 25 centuries, world leaders may be able to rest for a while and think about serving the Person. I believe that the difference is enormous. “Serving the people” usually implies some sort of “sacred” righteousness, which “gives them the right” to walk all over the people. Imagine if Albert Camus’ character Bernard Rieux announced during the plague that he was serving the people. Is it possible that Johann Sebastian Bach would have said something like that, for example? Or Nerses Shnorhali (who was an authority, by the way)?
The delusion of hurting people, as a rule, is followed by assurances that the authorities are serving justice, the people, Christ, or Allah, and declarations of the right to punish those who “deviated from the road of righteousness” in the name of one of the aforementioned figures. As it is acceptable to say now, this is a form of manipulation that is meant to control the people.
Read the whole article in Armenian: https://www.aravot.am/2020/06/18/1118538/
Aram Abrahamyan
