ONE MAN’S FAIRY TALE IS ANOTHER MAN’S POLITICAL TECHNOLOGY
Hakob Badalyan

Lragir, Armenia
Dec 14 2006

Attorney General Aghvan Hovsepyan was right when he stated that
there is no need to push him into politics. But the society would
not give up. Although we should understand him too because unlike
Aghvan Hovsepyan the society did not know that the government was
pushing Aghvan Hovsepyan out of politics. It is natural that finally
the government would prevail independent from Aghvan Hovsepyan’s wish.

Most people may wonder what made the Attorney General set up the
Unification for Armenia Party, which is declining, as it became
clear from the news conference of Vahram Baghdasaryan, one of the
initiators of the political party, who has now got down with the
Attorney General to setting up another union, this time that of
unions of compatriots. But why was this political party created,
which died before it would be born? This question will remain without
an answer like the question why the New Country Party died before it
was born. In addition, it is notable that both parties were backed by
representatives of the government, an attorney general and the head of
the president administration. It is notable that both are appointed
by the president. It appears that they are not so ingenuous to set
up a political party without the approval of their superior.

Consequently, either they were cheated, or they tried to cheat their
superior, which was not forgiven.

But before these two suggestions, which have got a lot of contemplation
among the society and experts, it is worthwhile to pay attention
to another significant thing. In Armenia besides these two political
parties the third was set up as well – the Bargavach Hayastan Party. In
other words, to sum up, in "the father had three sons…" fairy tales
one of the sons is not smart but in the end he is fortunate. But the
charm of the fairy tale is that the luckiness of one is emhasized
again the misfortune of the other two. In addition, if one is lucky
though he is not smart, the other two are unlucky even though they
are smart. Moral: brains is not a deciding factor in life.

There is a reason why the fairy tale teaches this moral, and the
peculiarities of the environment and time when these fairy tales
were created are to be taken into account. However, by watching TV
channels which televise the events of the day every evening one may
become convinced that in modern Armenia everything is done on the
level of state propaganda to reduce the importance of the factor
of mind for success in life, and the impression is that charity and
lotteries are the only things that happen during the day in Armenia.

In other words, one needs to get something from someone else or
win something somewhere to live on. Of course, a society with such
mentality will not make any steps to gain control of the situation in
the country. It is not a secret for anyone, even the society, which
surrenders to this game even though it realizes everything, because
charity follows charity, and one lottery follows the other. There is no
beginning and end in this song. And once the game started, it must be
carried on at full. There cannot be a sphere which defies this logic.

It is quite natural that the Attorney General and the former
head of the administration, even though they were educated and
intelligent, would not be successful to evaluate the success of the
"third son" against this background, as the logic of the fairy tail
suggests. But it is also natural that the two failures should first
start something. Did they know the ultimate goal of their real mission?

This question should be sought on the pages of childhood of Aghvan
Hovsepyan and Artashes Tumanyan. If they have read Russian fairy tales,
they should have known. Maybe they have read, and thought that they
and their superior are no longer children. And in this sense they
were quite right. But they did not realize an important thing: they
read tales in childhood to bring them into being at a mature age not
to waste time on reading.