Every once in a while, but not more often than once a month, my friends have the desire to tell me what such-and-such website or such-and-such Facebook user has written about me. I usually prevent that desire and urge not to spend time on it. Sometimes my friends can’t wait and voice those opinions about me; in that case, my answer is the same: I wish everyone health and fulfillment of their dreams.
As Marcus Aurelius wrote, “I wonder why persons, who evidently love themselves more than others, still pay more attention to the beliefs of others than to their own.”
I understand that the modern world is like that, and hundreds of thousands of people in Armenia and millions worldwide are immersed in that swamp. There’s no point in fighting it, but everyone can choose to live with those petty passions or not.
The same cannot be said when it comes to state leaders. In that case, I have the right to expect a certain level of thinking and scale. Why is it necessary? The point is that those who make the fateful decisions for the state (especially in our situation) must have a broad mental horizon, see what we, ordinary citizens, do not see, and have strategic thinking.
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Now let’s see what scale of thinking RA Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan displays regarding critical issues. He interprets the question of the Nagorno-Karabakh National Assembly deputy as follows։ “The salary of that deputy and, therefore, the contents of his kitchen are fully provided by the RA government. Is that government bad? Do return it.”
First of all, that statement is wrong in essence; the salary of both the deputy of the Artsakh Parliament and the Prime Minister of Armenia is provided by the state of Armenia, that is, by us, the taxpayers. Second, such an answer is good for the Facebook “babble” but wrong from a state-level perspective.
Unfortunately, the government of Armenia lives in a world of low, cheap Facebook passions. And it is natural for them that the “factory of fakes” is mobilized to write blasphemy against the journalists who “asked the wrong question.” What can be countered to that “small” thinking? Fight it, react to it? I think not. Just keep living in real life. Or, as my friend Armen Darbinyan likes to repeat, “Stay higher.”
Aram ABRAHAMYAN
