I will live longer than Pashinyan, Biden, and even Putin and Lukashenko will “reign.” Hence, the topic of loving them or not, being for or against them, concerns me less than the reasons that brought such “kings” to power and, what is more important, why these “kings” continue to rule on their “thrones.”
There have been 40 or more centuries of different “kings” in human history. They inherited the power, were “appointed,” were elected or rigged the elections, and seized power by violence, coup, conspiracy, etc. Of course, it is essential and affects their ways of ruling to some extent. But it is not the only and decisive circumstance.
For me, the answer to the following question is much more important: do the people (subjects, citizens) tolerate that “king” or not? Is the “king” deceiving, oppressing, hypnotizing, or subjecting the people to neurolinguistic programming – these are the following questions and explanations, but the main topic is “tolerates – does not tolerate.”
“There are no authoritative forces,” “there is no serious alternative,” “we don’t have a real leader,” “the Russians don’t want,” “the West is interfering” – all these conversations are about the consequences. Powers, authorities, and leaders that “dethrone the king” are born when intolerance reaches a certain level.
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It is optional that this supposed authority or leader conforms to Plato’s ideal of the Philosopher. It can be Pashinyan or “Dog”. They must express that level of intolerance. And, by the way, in that case, they get external support just as Russia supported Pashinyan in 2018 and the West, too. But that, I repeat, is not a decisive factor. The decisive factor is the internal processes, and the position of the people, as we see, may not be rational at all.
Even if, somewhere, say, in Haiti or Honduras, the Americans bring their President to power, the people of those countries tolerate or do not tolerate these presidents. Afghanistan is a great example;
When representatives of the Armenian authorities and propagandists say that all who are angry that Artsakh and a part of Armenia were handed over to the enemy are agents of Russia, it is a lie. But in their way, they are right in the sense that no “agent network” (even if there was one) can change the government in Armenia if the people of our country tolerate this government that conducts destructive politics. And so far, it is so.
ARAM ABRAHAMYAN
