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    "The Age of Idiocy"

    Haik Aramyan
    09:15 05/01/2013
    Story from Lragir.am News:
    http://www.lragir.am/index.php/eng/0/comments/view/28557

    Having survived the Stone, Bronze, Iron Ages, feudalism, communism,
    capitalism, our ancient country is destined to go through a unique
    period which can be referred to as the Age of Idiocy.

    This period has not ended yet but there are all the premises for that.
    Is it possible to avoid it or will the Armenian people have to go
    through it? It is impossible to answer this question confidently
    considering both historical and modern circumstances.

    One can start answering this question by the absence of state and
    political traditions and the culture of independent organization of
    public life when individual perceptions become dominant in the public,
    promoting different saviors, chieftains and adventurers who form the
    elite and enjoy the right to manage the entire resource of the
    country.

    For its part, the `elite' is interested in the perpetuation of this
    state of things because otherwise it cannot survive. It does not make
    investments in modern education and science, hinders the introduction
    of modern technology and industries which are able to change the
    thinking and worldview of people.

    For this purpose the elite forms political parties, makes a deal with
    the church, buys the press and intellectuals who are tasked to subject
    the public to information and psychological terror and keep the elite
    from the rightful demands of the public.

    Public consciousness and behaviors undergoes continuous degradation
    which aggravates vicious phenomena and thinking, making people humble
    and conformist under the weight of the myths of the elite.

    Since independence Armenia has witnessed this conduct which culminated
    in 2012. It was the peak of the period of idiocy. On the one hand, it
    was funny to watch the behavior of the `elite' and its servant
    parties. But on the other hand, it was a tragedy, not for the elite
    but for the people who seem literate, educated and smart enough to
    understand that the mechanisms offered in the internal fight can serve
    only the perpetuation of the anti-state system.

    This is a tragedy because literate people intend to drag the public
    out of the marsh of perceptions and myths and interpret the meaning of
    constitutional state, the mechanisms of organization of a dignified
    public life to them. Instead, these people tried to reduce the
    problems of state and public life and identify them with the personal
    problems of the `elite' which have become a problem for Armenia.

    Levon Ter-Petrosyan's government was absolutely authoritarian, it was
    based on the individual perceptions of a handful of people. The law
    was not enforced, public institutions brought into being the
    individual perceptions of life of a few people.

    Robert Kocharyan crashed this `system' and established the rule of
    criminal law in the country. It could be described as more
    `progressive' - the perceptions of some people were replaced by a
    system of perceptions. Tough rules were established, the resources
    were divided to quotas and distributed to the participants of the
    system which had to control the `area' assigned to them and ensure the
    proper functioning of the system. A stiff hierarchy was set up where
    not even the slightest deviation was forgiven.

    Serzh Sargsyan's government is difficult to describe because in the
    long run he has been unable to form a government. There are some
    elements of previous governments. It has `objective' reasons because
    there are no more `authorities' and `saviors' whereas he cannot be
    perceived as a `judge' in the criminal system who can set the rules of
    the game and make sure they are observed, and it is already cracking.
    On the other hand, the transformation to a Constitutional state failed
    although all the premises were in place. The Constitutional state is
    the end of the system formed in the past 20 years.

    The end was inevitable despite the efforts to prolong the existence of
    this system on the eve of the parliamentary and presidential
    elections. One the one hand, some civic groups have emerged which
    achieve victories through well-designed mechanisms and activities,
    which cannot pass unheeded. On the other hand, the systems based on
    `saviors' and `authorities' cannot survive even the first visible
    expression of the new reality.

    The Armenian revolution is slowly clearing its path. The
    anti-revolutionary forces - the criminal oligarchy and the political
    parties - are passing to the margin of history. Perhaps, the `Age of
    Idiocy' was a historical must for the victory of the Armenian
    revolution.

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