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    SERZHIK LEAVE IS A UNIVERSAL BRAND
    Siranuysh Papyan

    Story from Lragir.am News:
    http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/interview26995.html
    Published: 18:04:59 - 30/07/2012

    Interview with Manvel Sargsyan, ACNIS director

    Mr. Sargsyan, only a few months are left till the presidential election
    but there seems to be no interest in the elections. Why?

    Either the political forces have nothing to say, or the proposed
    approaches are not interesting. Today there is an internal dispute in
    the opposition on the direction declared and followed by the ANC. This
    dispute has acquires such expressions that one cannot understand
    whether it serves the decaying process or is the result of the
    decaying process. Generally, it is very difficult to understand what
    is happening as long as one hears people's opinion on the conducted
    police some of which seem to be outside the ANC but others declare
    themselves part of the ANC and say the same. This declared direction
    is the direction of relying on Tsarukyan's party. The former or
    maybe present opposition force offers some ways of achieving change
    but this appearance is not convincing, and if it is not convincing,
    people become indifferent.

    However, the idea of a joint opposition candidate is so abstract that
    nobody wants to touch upon it unless there is concreteness. After
    all, there must a proposal for people to discuss. Besides, the idea
    of change through elections was attached after the parliamentary
    elections. Convincing expressions, the only form, the only truth does
    not convince even those people who declared that. I can see people
    scare the public that revolution is death and now they state calmly
    this is a lie, no elections, only revolution. I don't think these
    people are honest, simply these people have understood that these
    statements are void. There is an ideological vacuum, false beliefs
    have been revealed for people with with these beliefs. The lack of
    ideology explains the indifference.

    What is the reason of this ideological bankruptcy of the past 20
    years? There is an opinion that we must develop procedures. We knew
    what we wanted but did not know how to get it.

    Any activity for political issues must produce a result. If we put
    forth a problem, independent from its scope, we must solve it, if you
    do not ever solve it, it means, on the one hand, that you are unable
    to do that, your mentality, your experience are not enough for the
    solution of the problems, on the other hand, people start filling
    their heads with false ideas that no issue can be resolved. Mainly
    those people uphold it who are unable to solve problems. When you put
    forth an issue and are unable to resolve it, then you start preaching
    the public that it did not resolve because one cannot solve anything in
    Armenia. This is expansion of false ideas. Over 20 years no problem put
    forth by the political forces has been solve, the political forces have
    always found an excuse for why it was not resolved and no political
    force claimed responsible. I remember Levon Ter-Petrosyan say in
    one of the rallies that he cannot resolve a problem alone. This is
    interesting this something like this was uttered in Armenia but it was
    not convincing why he could not because later different interpretations
    came that "we need several hundred thousand people".

    No convincing explanation was given which weakens the society,
    people are made believe that 500,000 will never get together, and
    these problems will never be resolved. We must understand that if the
    problems are put forth, solutions must be found, if no solutions are
    found, the society finds itself in such a situation. Some of them
    leave in despair, others reconcile with this state, including the
    political forces, and the only hope is the other part of the society
    which does not accept all these things and tries to put forth goals,
    figure out the objectives and find solutions. This small part of the
    society is in an interesting state because the subdued part sheds its
    jealousy and wickedness on the small percent, teaches them that they
    are wrong and disturb them.

    Finally, who is the cause of this situation? This is one of the most
    important issues, and one must try to find the reasons, see why people
    are in this situation.

    First of all, it is related to the category of lie. In the past 20
    years people and especially the political forces have developed a
    growing belief in the lie, it is a very powerful political mechanism,
    it is justified that lie mobilizes, lie helps solve a lot of problems.

    Now I can see the crisis of the policy of lie. There are other reasons
    as well. There are populist approaches which persisted over the past
    20 years, people believed that this is the way of solving issues.

    Those were wrong beliefs which led to this crush, people cannot
    believe but try to keep from other perceptions. Hence, another surge
    of lie comes, a belief that lie can justify your situation. People
    must understand why man constantly appears in lie, why reality is
    falsified all the time, success is denied. There is success, people
    say there is nothing like this, it is a lie because for decades this
    situation was part of private life, they live like this all their
    life and cannot say that they lived all their life in a wrong way.

    But, Mr. Sargsyan, there is a civil sector which is not living in a
    false reality. Is it possible to have this sector self-organize and
    create a new reality? What are the ways out?

    Since civil initiatives are something new, it is natural that the
    society living in the way I described tries to understand what this is,
    and still a lot of things are not clear. When we consider the political
    scramble in Armenia, we must speak about the race of parties. Beginning
    from the Armenian National Movement, all the parties led an organized
    and controlled race which was usually in the pre- and post-election
    periods. This was the philosophy of the struggle.

    We had a civil struggle, the Karabakh movement but we did not have
    one in the past 20 years. The civil movement is not the duplication of
    the party struggle, they are so different that this time they can be
    antagonists. We can see that now the parties are mainly jealous and
    wicked because the citizens are the civil struggle. Classic civil
    struggle is for an urgent issue, the problem is put forth for the
    society, it takes part, is interested, pursues the solution of the
    problem, this problem can be change of the government, the citizens
    put forth the issue, come together, solve it and go home. This is
    the logic of the civil struggle which the present parties cannot
    understand. Since we lacked social consciousness for years, people
    were told that only the parties are entitled to solve the problems,
    and nobody has the right to solve them. And it became a belief
    for the parties. But the parties can never solve it because they
    are political institutions whose functions are defined by law. The
    parties do not need to put forth the issue of change of government,
    the citizens must come together and decide whether it is urgent or not,
    and we still do not have this certainty.

    It is often asked whether the civil initiatives will transform to
    political forces.

    These are questions which have the right to be raised. It comes
    from the understanding of the problems that the parties may be
    the problem which do not have the necessary qualities to be able
    to resolve systemic issues. The parties in Armenia operate in a
    climate where they can never do anything. They go beyond their their
    functions and thus become weak, remaining within their competencies
    they cannot solve any issue because the electoral mechanism is not
    operational, if there is no competition among parties, the activity
    of parties becomes meaningless. Therefore they try to walk into the
    civil field, assume the functions of citizens and solve issues but
    they are not successful because in their consciousness the struggle
    is for power. There is not a matter of coming to power for any
    civil initiative which pursues change of the system therefore they
    are powerful. As soon as the civil movement pursues power, it is
    annihilated, and never succeeds, you must remove this issue to be
    able to resolve a distinct issue. There was something similar in 2008
    because it was impossible to do a systemic change by bringing a group
    to power. If politics were based on truth and not lie, we could have
    avoided those mistakes but it was said that by bringing some people
    to power a systemic issue would be solved. It was a barefaced lie
    which could not last long and now we can see the decay.

    A lot of people see the decay of the criminal and oligarchic pyramid.

    Is the pyramid in crisis?

    We must ask the question what will replace it when it decays.

    Otherwise it may decay for one hundred years. In the criminal world,
    if there is a problem, and the system of agreements does not work,
    they will make a new agreement, and then the same thing will repeat on
    and on. Now it is complicated by the civil activism. The government,
    as well as the political forces, is jealous and full of hatred because
    they feel the danger. See what severe punishment the youths of the
    ANC got. This is the hatred of the government. Remember how the young
    people in Mashtots Park were treated for a single tent. The system
    can see young people who disobey it. It indicates that the system
    feels the change in the country but issues are not solves. Listen
    how the oligarchs are speaking, their false excuse me-s. The society
    has put them in this situation, and this might be the beginning,
    and tomorrow the society may speak in a different language, and they
    have understood that other masters are coming who dictate their will.

    Mr. Sargsyan, do you agree with Aghasi Tadevosyan that our goal must
    not be removal of the oligarchy?

    We must understand that this system is genetically linked with the
    consciousness and development of the society. The oligarchy which was
    established and becomes stronger is directly linked with the quality
    of the society. This phenomenon will disappear as soon as we change our
    quality. We must treat the sick body. Look how everything is perverted
    in the political struggle when a person does not hope that he or she
    can put forth an issue and solve it. The brand "Serzhik leave" is a
    universal almighty device. When a person has nothing to say, it can
    use it and speak for an hour, these are the stages of development of
    new false ideas which weaken every movement and complicate the ways
    f solving problems.

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