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    A NATION CANNOT LIVE WITH PERCEPTION OF PAST ONLY

    Lragir.am
    07 Sept 06

    The society in Armenia has lost social flexibility and turned into
    castes, stated Hmayak Hovanisyan, the chair of the Union of Political
    Scientists September 7 at the Pakagits Club in connection with the
    state and the society.

    "The social flexibility of the society is declining, and castes
    are forming, in fact, which resemble the social pattern typical of
    the eastern tyrannies," says Hmayak Hovanisyan. According to him,
    people who even went through genocide had respectable leaders,
    whereas the picture is the contrary now. The political scientist
    thinks that the consequence of this state of things is the violence,
    which has become continuous. "In our reality, the criminal world has
    already lost the perception of fear or borders, and became brazen
    to the extent that even the commissioned officers, who have passed a
    military way, are becoming a target," says Hmayak Hovanisyan hinting
    at the assassination of Shahen Hovasapyan, the head of the Department
    of Investigations of the State Tax Agency.

    "Today they worship Mammon, money is a god, money is everything.

    Money is higher than the most precious thing, human life. And if
    today man assesses money higher than his life, it is clear that that
    for him money is more important than someone else's life.

    Therefore people are assassinated," thinks Hmayak Hovanisyan.

    For the present state of the society, Hmayak Hovanisyan quotes
    Robert Kocharyan's words at the famous meeting of the Council of
    Security in 1998 when Kocharyan said that Armenia may develop like
    Israel, insulated, no relations with the neighbors. Hmayak Hovanisyan
    says the comparison is good in some sense because life showed that
    it is possible to increase both the budget and the foreign money
    transfers. In the long run, however, it is wrong to compare Armenia
    with Israel because the Israeli society has an integrated and common
    idea of its past, present and future, and the Armenian society is
    common only with regard to the past, and is currently turning into
    castes, which makes a secure future impossible.
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