A rash or pus blister may appear when a person’s body is poisoned. Focusing all attention on that pimple without discovering the poison with which the organism has been infected means fighting the consequences, not the causes. You can apply powder or even minor surgery, but it will not cure the disease. Where did a leader like Vladimir Putin come from, which kills tens of thousands of other countries and his citizens, waging a senseless war that does not promise any positive prospects for Russia? You will not understand anything if you approach the question purely regarding individual characteristics.
Would everything be fine if Putin did not come to power 23 years ago and attacked Georgia and Ukraine? I highly doubt it. Wars are a symptom of many other more profound phenomena. If we try to describe the most important of them briefly, it is the failure of the liberal project after the 1990s and the collapse of the existing world order.
As a result, the crazy ideas of the “Third Rome” and the “collecting the lands” of the empire are renewed. Similarly, after the “elimination” of official atheism in the same 90s, the most secular sects began to develop. I have my explanation for why the “liberal” world order project has failed, which concerns a systemic error made several centuries ago. However, that would take us too far into the conversation.
Where did people come to power in Armenia who, apart from talking senselessly and stupidly, is not endowed with any other skills necessary for public administration? Again, if we focus on the characteristics of these people, we will not be able to explain anything. It should be understood that it is a manifestation of the internal disease of society.
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The name of that disease is disbelief, nihilism, and cynicism. And the reason is apparent: again, the failure of the project, in this case, a national one. When the authorities talked about “sacrifices for the homeland,” they were not ready for any sacrifices; on the contrary, they behaved arrogantly and lived a dissipated life, then the reaction, “rash” or “pus blister,” is inevitable.
Tolstoy said that any belief or idea is worth as much as a person is ready to sacrifice for it. What is a person capable of for the sake of an idea: not eating for a day, going to a rally, going to jail, or dying? Not only is the value of the idea but also its viability due to this.
ARAM ABRAHAMYAN
