THE MIRROR OF GOVERNMENT
Hakob Badalyan
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14:12:09 – 21/08/2009
Obviously, the Armenian government has set to educate the society. The
prime minister wants to make everyone fasten their seatbelts, and has
set to defeat the society’s "arrogance", although he has been unable to
defeat the "arrogance" of the oligarchs and officials, whom he urged
in vain to live like Christians and not to show off their power and
wealth a year ago. During the inauguration ceremony of the mayor the
president does not speak about the basic problems of the city but about
the pedestrian who crosses the street in the middle and holds up his
finger, not thinking or not wanting to think that the culture of this
pedestrian is the consequence of the general atmosphere which has been
created by the body called the government, showing to the society that
a law-abiding person cannot have a comfortable and well-to-do life.
However, it is difficult to think that the government, Serge Sargsyan,
Tigran Sargsyan or others do not understand this simple thing, and
is not aware that the level of relations and culture is determined
by the atmosphere that the government establishes in the country. In
other words, the government is responsible for the society’s behavior,
the society’s consciousness. However, the government is responsible not
because it does not teach what should be done or allows violating law
and order but because the government does not create conditions where
the guarantee of wellbeing and comfort is observing the law. The fact
that the top government officials and their families and friends are
the most well-known violators of the law is enough to become convinced
that by honoring the law you will not live well in Armenia.
Certainly, there are citizens who are law-abiding independent from
anything and despite all. However, it is a matter of personality,
meanwhile the society is a whole, and although it consists of
individuals, it has a separate consciousness which is beyond the
individual, which is shaped by the atmosphere in the country. And
the government is responsible for the atmosphere. And perhaps this
awareness makes the government encourage the society to violate the
law to make the society responsible instead of the government. The
following sense and mentality is set forth: "What can the government
do about such a society, when every citizen violates the law, defies
law, order, red light, seatbelts, crossing." This is a skillfully
made but highly primitive plan.
It can change the route, dynamic, momentum of public needs. However,
the quality and state of the country will not change. It is also
clear that the purpose of the government’s policy is to diminish
the surge of public demands rather than to change the quality of the
state and the atmosphere. If the purpose were to change the quality
of the state, they would let the society alone, because even if its
behavior is problematic, it is due to the behavior of the government,
and they would merely look in the mirror.