ALL GENERATIONS OF REFORMS
Hakob Badalyan
Lragir, Armenia
July 24 2007
When one listens to the high-ranking Armenian officials, one has no
doubt that they are well-aware of the problems of Armenia, acknowledge
the issues which require urgent solution, and the efforts that should
be made to solve these problems. But when the time of making efforts
comes, the same officials decide to solve their personal problems
first and not the problems of the nation. The reason, perhaps, is
that the officials do not listen themselves talk.
They do not listen to themselves and they are not aware of the problems
that Armenia has and that must be solved to make the flesh and blood
of the regional tiger. On the other hand, it may seem strange how
these officials speak about the problems and outline the ways of
their solution in public speeches when they are unaware of these
problems. This strange phenomenon has a simple explanation.
Speaking has become a mechanical action for our officials. In other
words, they do not talk but the mechanics works, maybe even the
mechanics of happiness, because a person for whom speaking is not an
additional cause to think might be very happy. For instance, if the
officials said what they think, the picture would be quite different.
In this case, Armenia would have no problems, there would be no need
for an urgent solution, and those who would nevertheless try to remind
the official that there are problems would immediately be sent to
the prison of the National Security Service or to the mental hospital
because they pose threat to the security of the nation and the society.
It is possible, however, that our officials also need psychologist’s
help or maybe even medical treatment. The problem is that when they
speak about the problems of the nation and the country but they first
solve their and their family’s problems, it might be the consequence
of the identification short circuit, and they think that they are not
part of the nation and the country but the nation and the country
are them. Therefore, they make speeches with innocent faces, then
they get down to raising and solving the issues they had raised in
those speeches. For instance, someone states that there is a problem
of distribution of the economic growth and it should be distributed
evenly. And it is distributed evenly. For instance, the younger
daughter or son who went to the university in a Russian car in the
first year of his or her studies, in the second year he or she starts
attending the university in a BMW car, for instance, like his or her
elder sister of brother. Is distribution even? Certainly. And the
members of the family cannot complain that the economic growth is
not distributed evenly.
Nothing can help solve this problem except an experienced psychologist
who might be able to cure the official Armenia from the syndrome of
family. Otherwise, the so-called second generation of reforms our
officials are fond of talking about is endangered because with the
present psychological arrangement the second generation of reforms
means that this time the economic growth will be directed at the
grandchildren, and they will go to nursery school or school in a BMW,
Mercedes or a Hummer car.