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COLLECTIVE DESTRUCTIONISM OF ARMENIANS - AUGUST, 2012
The Rise of Russia Blog
Aug 28 2012
Germany
As the presidential election in Armenia gets nearer, the young
republic's so-called political opposition is again preparing to
cause unrest. While their approach and tactics will vary somewhat,
they will be united in the hope that by putting pressure on the
entrenched government and by disseminating poisonous propaganda, the
masses will eventually rise-up against their leadership, similar to
what happened in early 2008 when Levon Petrosian's and his gang of
criminals attempted their ill fated revolution.
The intent of this blog entry is to help open eyes and prepare the
reader for the coming election season in Armenia, which promises to
be very interesting to say the least.
Below this commentary I am presenting you the work of a good comrade.
His work is essentially about the dangerously negative mood presiding
inside Armenian society today and it is aptly called "Collective
Destructionism". Below his excellent work I have also posted several
very rare voices of sanity and objectivity. Please read them all. We
need to be informed of the political dangers that our newly formed
republic faces, and armed with this information we need to fight
against the negativity and the destructive criticism that is being
engineered by Armenia's Western led, funded and/or inspired political
opposition.
The following thoughts of mine are meant to serve as a prologue to
the works featured below:
For much of the past two thousand years Armenia's most persistent and
most dangerous enemy has been the Armenian. It was the Armenian that
time-and-again rose up against his king. It was the Armenian that
enthusiastically allied himself with enemies of Armenia. It was the
Armenian that preferred the rule of foreigners to that of Armenians.
It was the Armenian - and the Greek - that essentially allowed the
Turk to settle in the Armenian highlands. It was the Armenian that
tore Edessa's aging prince Toros into pieces so that a Frank can rule
over them. It was the Armenian that beheaded the legendary Sparapet
Mkhitar and presented his severed head to the Turkish sultan just so
that he would not cause troubles for them. It was the Armenian that
after being given an opportunity to form a nation in the Caucasus
by the Russian Empire, betrayed the Czar by becoming socialists and
Bolsheviks. It was the Armenian that did not want anything to do with
a national independence movement inside the Ottoman Empire. It was the
Armenian that betrayed many Armenian freedom fighters at the time to
the Turks. It was the Armenian that stood on long visa lines at the
US embassy as a handful of freedom fighters were standing in line to
liberate Artsakh from Azeri Turks. It was the Armenian that took to
the streets in their tens-of-thousands to support Levon Petrosian,
a criminal and a traitor that had already once raped and pillaged
Armenia. It is the Armenian that always prefers personal business and
his ego over the nation or nation building. It is the Armenian today
that is enthusiastically importing political poison into Armenia on
behalf of Western interests...
For much of the past two thousand years it was the Armenian that has
kept Armenia small, poor, weak, dependent and on the very verge of
extinction. I'm afraid the problem we have may be genetic/cultural in
nature. Yes, we have been blessed with many positive traits... but we
have also been dammed with quite a few destructive ones as well. These
destructive traits are again working against our nation. When it
comes to Armenia, the fundamental problem ultimately lies with us -
the Armenian.
We have been patting each others back to feel good about ourselves
since 1915. Now, with a real Armenian state under our care for the
first time in one thousand years, the honeymoon is over. We need
to stop our silliness and take a good close look at ourselves in a
mirror. We need to put aside our petty concerns and strive to derive
lessons from our past few successes and try to learn from our many
mistakes. More importantly, we need to somehow suppress our legendary
egos (the massive depository in which most of our nation's many
ailments currently reside) and for once take serious responsibility
for our actions with regards to our fledgling homeland in the
Caucasus. While many Armenians are finally beginning to waking-up
to the harsh realities of the political world they live in today,
many other Armenians are blindly continuing the destructive habits
of their destructive forefathers.
Under the banners of "freedom", "democracy" and "human rights" there
is an active information war taking place against the Armenian state.
Instigated and supported by the political West via many Western funded
NGOs, propaganda outlets and a not so small army of operatives on
the ground in Armenia and throughout the Armenian diaspora, the young
republic's natural growing pains are being used to undermine its hard
won political stability.
Although the political opposition's publicly stated goals are on the
surface very innocent, their actions and their affiliations, however,
pose a serious security risk to the Armenian state. Therefore, I'm
afraid, their actions go well beyond merely fighting "corruption"
or promoting "democracy" in Armenia. Whether they realize it or not,
their actions are ultimately meant to topple the current Russian-backed
Armenian government and replace it with one that more-or-less serves
the Anglo-American-Zionist global order (i.e.
Western oil/gas interests and their Turkic and Islamic allies).
Because of Russia's strategic military presence inside Armenia, the
political West realizes that it cannot do what it has done in places
such as Serbia, Iraq, Libya and Syria. Therefore, since NATO cannot
bomb Armenia or fund militants to attack Armenia, and since they have
not been very successful in economically strangling Armenia through
the Turkish (i.e. NATO supported) economic blockade of the landlocked
republic, they have instead resorted to attacking Armenian morale by
funding a multi-pronged information war against the Armenian state.
The sociopolitical climate we currently have in Armenia is essentially
a result of this well organized, well funded psychological operations
(psy-ops) campaign that is being carried out against it.
To realize their above stated geopolitical agenda against Armenia's
Russian-backed government, they have been fully engaged in a serious
information war, a media blitz if you will, that is using various
propaganda organs such as Policy Forum Armenia, Radio Liberty
(Azatutyun Radio), ArmeniaNow, Armenian Weekly, Asbarez, Hetq and
Lragir to saturate the already volatile Armenian landscape with utter
pessimism, anger and hopelessness. This destructive negativity being
promoted inside Armenian society has become infectious. As a result of
this psy-ops campaign, the level of despair inside Armenia has been
on the rise in recent years. It's gotten to a point where Armenians
today are utterly blinded to the many positive developments that are
taking place right under their noses in their homeland and are only
concerning themselves with the negative, which further serves to feed
their fears and paranoia and encourages them to further spread their
poison, thereby creating a vicious cycle of destructive pessimism
and hopelessness.
The more horrid the news these days, the more likely it is for our
compatriots to spread it around. Significant numbers of Armenians
today have turned disseminating poisonous news about Armenia into a
sadomasochistic sport of sorts. The nastier the news about Armenia,
the further and the louder it travels. Needless to say, constantly
emphasizing the bad has taken a serious toll on the Armenian psyche.
The destructive pursuits of Armenia's political opposition is the main
reason why Armenians are demoralized to such a dangerous degree that
they no long see any point in remaining in Armenia. The opposition's
destructive political pursuits are the main reason why diasporan
Armenians today are feeling disconnected from Armenia. Despite what
we are told by those currently spreading fear, anger and despair, it
isn't the nation's so-called "oligarchs" that are driving the people
out of the country. All nations have corruption and all nations have
oligarchs, and most nations on earth have corruption and oligarchs
that are much worst than that of Armenia's!
Therefore, a question: Why are Armenians acting this hysterical these
days over Armenia's natural growing pains and its relatively speaking
mild problems? The answer: Negative/destructive forms of propaganda.
One of the main reasons why Armenians are seeking to abandon their
homeland today is the opposition's persistently negative psy-ops,
the kind of propaganda that is not providing realistic solutions or
hope, and the kind of information war that is grossly exaggerating
the bad in the young republic and in doing so saturating the already
volatile atmosphere there with poison.
This loss of hope, ultimately engineered by the political opposition,
is the single most dangerous thing the Armenian nation faces today.
Thinking of Armenia as a lost cause is one of the main reasons why many
Armenians today want to abandon their homeland. Thinking of Armenia as
a nation being ravaged by criminal oligarchs is the main reason why
large numbers of diasporans want nothing to do with the homeland. In
my opinion, there are several fundamental reasons behind all this -
Reason number one: The ever-complacent Armenian diaspora, living very
comfortably as Americans, Europeans, Arabs, Turks, etc. Diasporan
Armenians are subconsciously (and sometimes consciously) seeking
convenient excuses to justify their disengagement from the troubles
of their homeland in order to continue their comfortable existence
in their manicured surroundings. After all, building a nation from
scratch is much-much more difficult than comfortably living in a
society that was already developed when they got there.
Anti-"Õ°Õ¡ÕµÕ¡Õ½Õ¿Õ¡Õ¶O~AÕ"" attitudes that have prevailed in the
diaspora for decades also shows no signs of subsiding. In fact, they
are growing today. Diaspora's decades long negative attitude towards
the homeland and its people has been infectious. Large numbers of
Armenians have now taken up the infamous slogan - Â"Õ¥O~@Õ¯Õ"O~@Õ¨
Õ¥O~@Õ¯Õ"O~@ Õ¹Õ"Â", roughly translated in English - this is not a
country. It is precisely these types of unpatriotic attitudes and
sentiments, not Armenia's so-called "oligarchs" or "corruption" that
are the fundamental problems these days. If one can simply pack-up
and move to a better, more developed sociopolitical environment,
why bother with the many hassles of building one in one of the most
inhospitable parts of the world? In the absence of true nationalism,
in the absence of political maturity and in the overwhelming presence
of constant complaining, pessimism and "the sky is falling" rhetoric,
it always becomes better to simply move to greener pastures... where
there are compatriots waiting for you with open arms nonetheless!
Reason number two: The decades long Western propaganda assault against
Armenia. This information war, closely related to reason number one,
began against Armenia during the Cold War period when Armenia was
part of the Soviet Union. This Washington sanctioned information war
is continuing today primarily due to Yerevan's strategic military
alliance with Russian Federation and its friendly ties with Iran. This
propaganda assault has gotten very serious in recent years due to a
concerted Western agenda to push Russia out of the Caucasus and place
the region under Turkish and Islamic management. As noted above, this
propaganda is cleverly seeking to use Armenia's natural growing pains
against the state, and masses of our politically illiterate compatriots
(especially diasporans) are taking their bait. In fact, this Western
campaign against Armenia is where Armenia's so-called opposition types
have learned their doom&gloom trade. Simply put, the political West
is providing the platform from which to spread fear, anger, despair
and politically motivated Western fairytales for the ultimate purpose
of initiating an Arab Spring type political unrest inside Armenia,
and our political peasantry is more than happy to do their work.
Reason number three: Armenian genetic/cultural traits, as it exists
today after one thousand years of damage. We know the positive ones
- industrious, intelligent, resilient, hard working, independent,
talented, resourceful, musical, family oriented, passionate,
opinionated, compassionate, physically strong, etc... But for the
purpose of this discussion we also need to address some of the
negative ones - O...Õ¿Õ¡O~@Õ¡Õ´Õ¸Õ¬, jealous, clannish, insecure,
egotistical, suspicious, never satisfied, emotional, possessive,
loud, nonconforming, uncompromising, overly ambitious, stubborn,
short-tempered, nervous, individualistic, politically naive,
pessimistic, impatient, materialistic, arrogant, self-righteous,
etc... We have gone from being a nation of warriors to being a nation
of petty merchants, and as petty merchants we see the world today. We
are seeing our nation's negative traits now beginning to work against
our homeland. Therefore, before we rebuild Armenia we must first
rebuild the Armenian. For example, the following phrase, a well known
Armenian saying summaries much of what I'm trying to convey here -
Â"Õ¸O~@Õ¿Õ¥Õ² Õ°Õ¡O~A Õ¡ÕµÕ¶ Õ¿Õ¥Õ² Õ¯Õ¡O~AÂ". The phase roughly
translated means - settle-down (i.e. move to) wherever you find food
(i.e. financial opportunity). This popular Armenian saying actually say
a lot about the Armenian mindset today. It's true that Armenians love
the good life. In fact, the Armenian craves a flashy/lavish lifestyle.
Therefore, if those controlling the sociopolitical levers today
provide the Armenian with the perception that he or she will find
a better life abroad, he or she will almost instinctively desire to
abandon their homeland. This, along with the previous two reasons I
outlined above is the mental conditioning that is currently drawing
thousands of Armenians out of the homeland, and turning-off millions
in the diaspora to the homeland. Major powers of the world have for
centuries realized that one of the keys to subjugating a nation is
to use that nation's natural characteristics against it. And whether
they realize it or not, Armenia's Western-led political "opposition
activists", "rights advocates" and "independent journalists" are
using the aforementioned Armenian traits in conjunction with Armenia's
various growing pains against the Armenian state.
In the big picture, the aforementioned is essentially the toxic
mix that has turned Armenia into a bad word in the minds of many
Armenians today, and it is the reason why many in Armenia, including
the nation's small but growing middle class wishes to leave their
place of birth. After all, if Armenia is hell-on-earth according to
all... then anywhere else must be heaven.
As a diasporan Armenian I reserve the right to add the following:
Immensely arrogant and nauseatingly self-righteous, diasporan
Armenians in particular have a tendency of either treating Armenia as
an exotic zoo where they aloofly observe the "primitive" natives from
behind their protective shells; a public gallery where they proudly
showcase themselves or their wares; or an open-air laboratory where
they arrogantly mix all kinds of dangerous sociopolitical concoctions.
Very few diasporans today actually appreciate their newly reborn
homeland; very few diasporans today truly understand the predicament
of their embattled homeland in the Caucasus; very few diasporans
today genuinely feel any affinity toward their compatriots in their
homeland; and fewer still understand what the homeland needs and -
more importantly - what it does not need.
The diaspora's "open-air laboratory" approach is becoming more-and-more
pronounced as more-and-more diasporans today are getting recruited
by Washington-based organizations to foment political unrest in the
embattled republic. The modus operandi of these Western activists
are well known. They single out and emphasize all that is bad in
the republic. God forbid there is a beating, a rape or a murder in
the republic; it's quickly turned into an international showcase
and predictions of impediment doom are heard from all corners. This
modus operandi is how nations are in fact destroyed from within. The
doomsayers, incidentally, are the same idiots that admire Jews for
their ability to keep their internal problems internal and rally
around their state regardless of their personal desires or opinions.
Nevertheless, unfortunate incidents in Armenia, which rational people
know are normal in all nations on earth, are exploited by our nation's
opportunistic opposition types and made into a Greek tragedy. And the
troubling irony in all this is that despite the fact that the United
States is one of the most economically stressed, most corrupt and
most crime ridden nations on earth today, the Armenia's political
opposition takes their orders, inspiration and in many cases their
funding from Washington-based organizations.
The last thing Armenia needs at this stage in its sociopolitical
development is a forced regime change, especially one that we all know
will ultimately be engineered - directly or indirectly - by Washington
and its allies. Moreover, and more importantly, Armenia's political
system cannot be tampered with today (or for the foreseeable future)
simply because of the region's geopolitical volatility. The political
climate in the Caucasus is far too Turkic, far too Islamic, far too
volatile, far too unpredictable and far too dangerous for Western
experiments in Armenia.
I'm not going to get into discussing pros&cons of the current
leadership in Armenia at this time, but allow me to just say that the
present system of government in Yerevan, even with all its faults
(real and/or perceived), is a great improvement over the previous
two governments. Thus, I see progress! We would have all liked for
this progress to have taken place much faster of course, but it's
progress nonetheless.
Armenia needs sociopolitical evolution, not a Western funded, led or
inspired revolution!
Let's also recognize that the creature that we all call "Armenian"
today is a very difficult organism to understand or to govern. In other
words, with us Armenians things won't happen easily, efficiently
or painlessly. Armenia will have to travel a long hard road to
development. And in the course of this journey what we don't want or
need is Western meddling. Having already traveled the long and bumpy
road to development, the Western world is now attempting to harness
the hungry/ignorant masses of developing nations and exploiting them
towards self-serving imperial interests. In accordance with this plan,
Armenia's natural growing pains (e.g. corruption, crime, domestic
violence, censorship, abuse in the military, etc...) are being
exaggerated and used by Armenia's political activists to undermine
the Armenian state.
Thus, one of the fundamental problems with the sociopolitical situation
in Armenia is this: Those who are waiting on the political sidelines
to take advantage of political unrest pose an existential threat
to the fledgling republic. Therefore, logic would dictate that it
would be much wiser and much safer to stick with - and work with -
the devil we know. We need to keep today's fairly decent political
system intact (which as previously stated is better than the previous
two governments) but we also need to put pressure on them to continue
their reforms. In other words, we as a people need to figure out an
effective way to work with the current government and not against it.
And more importantly, we need to learn to do all this free of Western
meddling!
After all, let's also remember that governments are an accurate
reflection of their peoples and nations deserve the governments that
they have. Let's be honest enough with ourselves and admit that at this
stage of Armenian evolution, we as a people couldn't realistically
expect a better system of government. Having said that, however, I
must also admit that Armenia's overall situation, relatively speaking,
is really not all that bad!
Anyway, without any further ado, I now want to present the reader an
excellent essay written by a cyberian colleague. In my humble opinion,
this brilliant young Armenian patriot living in western Europe has
a better, healthier and more patriotic vision than all of Armenia's
so-called political opposition combined. His work titled "Collective
Destructionsim" is posted immediately below this prologue. Moreover, in
today's turbulent sea of "the sky is falling" rhetoric and predictions
of impending doom, I have found several very rare voices of sanity,
objectivity and optimism. The very rare works in question are posted
on this page for all to read. It may just be that because the region's
proverbial powder keg is getting close-and-closer to the verge of
explosion, more-and-more self-respecting Armenians with clear vision
and healthy minds are beginning to come forward and speak-up against
our people's destructive politics, destructive habits and destructive
attitudes.
Arevordi August, 2012
Read more at
http://theriseofrussia.blogspot.de/2012/08/collective-destructionism-and-armenias.html
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
The Rise of Russia Blog
Aug 28 2012
Germany
As the presidential election in Armenia gets nearer, the young
republic's so-called political opposition is again preparing to
cause unrest. While their approach and tactics will vary somewhat,
they will be united in the hope that by putting pressure on the
entrenched government and by disseminating poisonous propaganda, the
masses will eventually rise-up against their leadership, similar to
what happened in early 2008 when Levon Petrosian's and his gang of
criminals attempted their ill fated revolution.
The intent of this blog entry is to help open eyes and prepare the
reader for the coming election season in Armenia, which promises to
be very interesting to say the least.
Below this commentary I am presenting you the work of a good comrade.
His work is essentially about the dangerously negative mood presiding
inside Armenian society today and it is aptly called "Collective
Destructionism". Below his excellent work I have also posted several
very rare voices of sanity and objectivity. Please read them all. We
need to be informed of the political dangers that our newly formed
republic faces, and armed with this information we need to fight
against the negativity and the destructive criticism that is being
engineered by Armenia's Western led, funded and/or inspired political
opposition.
The following thoughts of mine are meant to serve as a prologue to
the works featured below:
For much of the past two thousand years Armenia's most persistent and
most dangerous enemy has been the Armenian. It was the Armenian that
time-and-again rose up against his king. It was the Armenian that
enthusiastically allied himself with enemies of Armenia. It was the
Armenian that preferred the rule of foreigners to that of Armenians.
It was the Armenian - and the Greek - that essentially allowed the
Turk to settle in the Armenian highlands. It was the Armenian that
tore Edessa's aging prince Toros into pieces so that a Frank can rule
over them. It was the Armenian that beheaded the legendary Sparapet
Mkhitar and presented his severed head to the Turkish sultan just so
that he would not cause troubles for them. It was the Armenian that
after being given an opportunity to form a nation in the Caucasus
by the Russian Empire, betrayed the Czar by becoming socialists and
Bolsheviks. It was the Armenian that did not want anything to do with
a national independence movement inside the Ottoman Empire. It was the
Armenian that betrayed many Armenian freedom fighters at the time to
the Turks. It was the Armenian that stood on long visa lines at the
US embassy as a handful of freedom fighters were standing in line to
liberate Artsakh from Azeri Turks. It was the Armenian that took to
the streets in their tens-of-thousands to support Levon Petrosian,
a criminal and a traitor that had already once raped and pillaged
Armenia. It is the Armenian that always prefers personal business and
his ego over the nation or nation building. It is the Armenian today
that is enthusiastically importing political poison into Armenia on
behalf of Western interests...
For much of the past two thousand years it was the Armenian that has
kept Armenia small, poor, weak, dependent and on the very verge of
extinction. I'm afraid the problem we have may be genetic/cultural in
nature. Yes, we have been blessed with many positive traits... but we
have also been dammed with quite a few destructive ones as well. These
destructive traits are again working against our nation. When it
comes to Armenia, the fundamental problem ultimately lies with us -
the Armenian.
We have been patting each others back to feel good about ourselves
since 1915. Now, with a real Armenian state under our care for the
first time in one thousand years, the honeymoon is over. We need
to stop our silliness and take a good close look at ourselves in a
mirror. We need to put aside our petty concerns and strive to derive
lessons from our past few successes and try to learn from our many
mistakes. More importantly, we need to somehow suppress our legendary
egos (the massive depository in which most of our nation's many
ailments currently reside) and for once take serious responsibility
for our actions with regards to our fledgling homeland in the
Caucasus. While many Armenians are finally beginning to waking-up
to the harsh realities of the political world they live in today,
many other Armenians are blindly continuing the destructive habits
of their destructive forefathers.
Under the banners of "freedom", "democracy" and "human rights" there
is an active information war taking place against the Armenian state.
Instigated and supported by the political West via many Western funded
NGOs, propaganda outlets and a not so small army of operatives on
the ground in Armenia and throughout the Armenian diaspora, the young
republic's natural growing pains are being used to undermine its hard
won political stability.
Although the political opposition's publicly stated goals are on the
surface very innocent, their actions and their affiliations, however,
pose a serious security risk to the Armenian state. Therefore, I'm
afraid, their actions go well beyond merely fighting "corruption"
or promoting "democracy" in Armenia. Whether they realize it or not,
their actions are ultimately meant to topple the current Russian-backed
Armenian government and replace it with one that more-or-less serves
the Anglo-American-Zionist global order (i.e.
Western oil/gas interests and their Turkic and Islamic allies).
Because of Russia's strategic military presence inside Armenia, the
political West realizes that it cannot do what it has done in places
such as Serbia, Iraq, Libya and Syria. Therefore, since NATO cannot
bomb Armenia or fund militants to attack Armenia, and since they have
not been very successful in economically strangling Armenia through
the Turkish (i.e. NATO supported) economic blockade of the landlocked
republic, they have instead resorted to attacking Armenian morale by
funding a multi-pronged information war against the Armenian state.
The sociopolitical climate we currently have in Armenia is essentially
a result of this well organized, well funded psychological operations
(psy-ops) campaign that is being carried out against it.
To realize their above stated geopolitical agenda against Armenia's
Russian-backed government, they have been fully engaged in a serious
information war, a media blitz if you will, that is using various
propaganda organs such as Policy Forum Armenia, Radio Liberty
(Azatutyun Radio), ArmeniaNow, Armenian Weekly, Asbarez, Hetq and
Lragir to saturate the already volatile Armenian landscape with utter
pessimism, anger and hopelessness. This destructive negativity being
promoted inside Armenian society has become infectious. As a result of
this psy-ops campaign, the level of despair inside Armenia has been
on the rise in recent years. It's gotten to a point where Armenians
today are utterly blinded to the many positive developments that are
taking place right under their noses in their homeland and are only
concerning themselves with the negative, which further serves to feed
their fears and paranoia and encourages them to further spread their
poison, thereby creating a vicious cycle of destructive pessimism
and hopelessness.
The more horrid the news these days, the more likely it is for our
compatriots to spread it around. Significant numbers of Armenians
today have turned disseminating poisonous news about Armenia into a
sadomasochistic sport of sorts. The nastier the news about Armenia,
the further and the louder it travels. Needless to say, constantly
emphasizing the bad has taken a serious toll on the Armenian psyche.
The destructive pursuits of Armenia's political opposition is the main
reason why Armenians are demoralized to such a dangerous degree that
they no long see any point in remaining in Armenia. The opposition's
destructive political pursuits are the main reason why diasporan
Armenians today are feeling disconnected from Armenia. Despite what
we are told by those currently spreading fear, anger and despair, it
isn't the nation's so-called "oligarchs" that are driving the people
out of the country. All nations have corruption and all nations have
oligarchs, and most nations on earth have corruption and oligarchs
that are much worst than that of Armenia's!
Therefore, a question: Why are Armenians acting this hysterical these
days over Armenia's natural growing pains and its relatively speaking
mild problems? The answer: Negative/destructive forms of propaganda.
One of the main reasons why Armenians are seeking to abandon their
homeland today is the opposition's persistently negative psy-ops,
the kind of propaganda that is not providing realistic solutions or
hope, and the kind of information war that is grossly exaggerating
the bad in the young republic and in doing so saturating the already
volatile atmosphere there with poison.
This loss of hope, ultimately engineered by the political opposition,
is the single most dangerous thing the Armenian nation faces today.
Thinking of Armenia as a lost cause is one of the main reasons why many
Armenians today want to abandon their homeland. Thinking of Armenia as
a nation being ravaged by criminal oligarchs is the main reason why
large numbers of diasporans want nothing to do with the homeland. In
my opinion, there are several fundamental reasons behind all this -
Reason number one: The ever-complacent Armenian diaspora, living very
comfortably as Americans, Europeans, Arabs, Turks, etc. Diasporan
Armenians are subconsciously (and sometimes consciously) seeking
convenient excuses to justify their disengagement from the troubles
of their homeland in order to continue their comfortable existence
in their manicured surroundings. After all, building a nation from
scratch is much-much more difficult than comfortably living in a
society that was already developed when they got there.
Anti-"Õ°Õ¡ÕµÕ¡Õ½Õ¿Õ¡Õ¶O~AÕ"" attitudes that have prevailed in the
diaspora for decades also shows no signs of subsiding. In fact, they
are growing today. Diaspora's decades long negative attitude towards
the homeland and its people has been infectious. Large numbers of
Armenians have now taken up the infamous slogan - Â"Õ¥O~@Õ¯Õ"O~@Õ¨
Õ¥O~@Õ¯Õ"O~@ Õ¹Õ"Â", roughly translated in English - this is not a
country. It is precisely these types of unpatriotic attitudes and
sentiments, not Armenia's so-called "oligarchs" or "corruption" that
are the fundamental problems these days. If one can simply pack-up
and move to a better, more developed sociopolitical environment,
why bother with the many hassles of building one in one of the most
inhospitable parts of the world? In the absence of true nationalism,
in the absence of political maturity and in the overwhelming presence
of constant complaining, pessimism and "the sky is falling" rhetoric,
it always becomes better to simply move to greener pastures... where
there are compatriots waiting for you with open arms nonetheless!
Reason number two: The decades long Western propaganda assault against
Armenia. This information war, closely related to reason number one,
began against Armenia during the Cold War period when Armenia was
part of the Soviet Union. This Washington sanctioned information war
is continuing today primarily due to Yerevan's strategic military
alliance with Russian Federation and its friendly ties with Iran. This
propaganda assault has gotten very serious in recent years due to a
concerted Western agenda to push Russia out of the Caucasus and place
the region under Turkish and Islamic management. As noted above, this
propaganda is cleverly seeking to use Armenia's natural growing pains
against the state, and masses of our politically illiterate compatriots
(especially diasporans) are taking their bait. In fact, this Western
campaign against Armenia is where Armenia's so-called opposition types
have learned their doom&gloom trade. Simply put, the political West
is providing the platform from which to spread fear, anger, despair
and politically motivated Western fairytales for the ultimate purpose
of initiating an Arab Spring type political unrest inside Armenia,
and our political peasantry is more than happy to do their work.
Reason number three: Armenian genetic/cultural traits, as it exists
today after one thousand years of damage. We know the positive ones
- industrious, intelligent, resilient, hard working, independent,
talented, resourceful, musical, family oriented, passionate,
opinionated, compassionate, physically strong, etc... But for the
purpose of this discussion we also need to address some of the
negative ones - O...Õ¿Õ¡O~@Õ¡Õ´Õ¸Õ¬, jealous, clannish, insecure,
egotistical, suspicious, never satisfied, emotional, possessive,
loud, nonconforming, uncompromising, overly ambitious, stubborn,
short-tempered, nervous, individualistic, politically naive,
pessimistic, impatient, materialistic, arrogant, self-righteous,
etc... We have gone from being a nation of warriors to being a nation
of petty merchants, and as petty merchants we see the world today. We
are seeing our nation's negative traits now beginning to work against
our homeland. Therefore, before we rebuild Armenia we must first
rebuild the Armenian. For example, the following phrase, a well known
Armenian saying summaries much of what I'm trying to convey here -
Â"Õ¸O~@Õ¿Õ¥Õ² Õ°Õ¡O~A Õ¡ÕµÕ¶ Õ¿Õ¥Õ² Õ¯Õ¡O~AÂ". The phase roughly
translated means - settle-down (i.e. move to) wherever you find food
(i.e. financial opportunity). This popular Armenian saying actually say
a lot about the Armenian mindset today. It's true that Armenians love
the good life. In fact, the Armenian craves a flashy/lavish lifestyle.
Therefore, if those controlling the sociopolitical levers today
provide the Armenian with the perception that he or she will find
a better life abroad, he or she will almost instinctively desire to
abandon their homeland. This, along with the previous two reasons I
outlined above is the mental conditioning that is currently drawing
thousands of Armenians out of the homeland, and turning-off millions
in the diaspora to the homeland. Major powers of the world have for
centuries realized that one of the keys to subjugating a nation is
to use that nation's natural characteristics against it. And whether
they realize it or not, Armenia's Western-led political "opposition
activists", "rights advocates" and "independent journalists" are
using the aforementioned Armenian traits in conjunction with Armenia's
various growing pains against the Armenian state.
In the big picture, the aforementioned is essentially the toxic
mix that has turned Armenia into a bad word in the minds of many
Armenians today, and it is the reason why many in Armenia, including
the nation's small but growing middle class wishes to leave their
place of birth. After all, if Armenia is hell-on-earth according to
all... then anywhere else must be heaven.
As a diasporan Armenian I reserve the right to add the following:
Immensely arrogant and nauseatingly self-righteous, diasporan
Armenians in particular have a tendency of either treating Armenia as
an exotic zoo where they aloofly observe the "primitive" natives from
behind their protective shells; a public gallery where they proudly
showcase themselves or their wares; or an open-air laboratory where
they arrogantly mix all kinds of dangerous sociopolitical concoctions.
Very few diasporans today actually appreciate their newly reborn
homeland; very few diasporans today truly understand the predicament
of their embattled homeland in the Caucasus; very few diasporans
today genuinely feel any affinity toward their compatriots in their
homeland; and fewer still understand what the homeland needs and -
more importantly - what it does not need.
The diaspora's "open-air laboratory" approach is becoming more-and-more
pronounced as more-and-more diasporans today are getting recruited
by Washington-based organizations to foment political unrest in the
embattled republic. The modus operandi of these Western activists
are well known. They single out and emphasize all that is bad in
the republic. God forbid there is a beating, a rape or a murder in
the republic; it's quickly turned into an international showcase
and predictions of impediment doom are heard from all corners. This
modus operandi is how nations are in fact destroyed from within. The
doomsayers, incidentally, are the same idiots that admire Jews for
their ability to keep their internal problems internal and rally
around their state regardless of their personal desires or opinions.
Nevertheless, unfortunate incidents in Armenia, which rational people
know are normal in all nations on earth, are exploited by our nation's
opportunistic opposition types and made into a Greek tragedy. And the
troubling irony in all this is that despite the fact that the United
States is one of the most economically stressed, most corrupt and
most crime ridden nations on earth today, the Armenia's political
opposition takes their orders, inspiration and in many cases their
funding from Washington-based organizations.
The last thing Armenia needs at this stage in its sociopolitical
development is a forced regime change, especially one that we all know
will ultimately be engineered - directly or indirectly - by Washington
and its allies. Moreover, and more importantly, Armenia's political
system cannot be tampered with today (or for the foreseeable future)
simply because of the region's geopolitical volatility. The political
climate in the Caucasus is far too Turkic, far too Islamic, far too
volatile, far too unpredictable and far too dangerous for Western
experiments in Armenia.
I'm not going to get into discussing pros&cons of the current
leadership in Armenia at this time, but allow me to just say that the
present system of government in Yerevan, even with all its faults
(real and/or perceived), is a great improvement over the previous
two governments. Thus, I see progress! We would have all liked for
this progress to have taken place much faster of course, but it's
progress nonetheless.
Armenia needs sociopolitical evolution, not a Western funded, led or
inspired revolution!
Let's also recognize that the creature that we all call "Armenian"
today is a very difficult organism to understand or to govern. In other
words, with us Armenians things won't happen easily, efficiently
or painlessly. Armenia will have to travel a long hard road to
development. And in the course of this journey what we don't want or
need is Western meddling. Having already traveled the long and bumpy
road to development, the Western world is now attempting to harness
the hungry/ignorant masses of developing nations and exploiting them
towards self-serving imperial interests. In accordance with this plan,
Armenia's natural growing pains (e.g. corruption, crime, domestic
violence, censorship, abuse in the military, etc...) are being
exaggerated and used by Armenia's political activists to undermine
the Armenian state.
Thus, one of the fundamental problems with the sociopolitical situation
in Armenia is this: Those who are waiting on the political sidelines
to take advantage of political unrest pose an existential threat
to the fledgling republic. Therefore, logic would dictate that it
would be much wiser and much safer to stick with - and work with -
the devil we know. We need to keep today's fairly decent political
system intact (which as previously stated is better than the previous
two governments) but we also need to put pressure on them to continue
their reforms. In other words, we as a people need to figure out an
effective way to work with the current government and not against it.
And more importantly, we need to learn to do all this free of Western
meddling!
After all, let's also remember that governments are an accurate
reflection of their peoples and nations deserve the governments that
they have. Let's be honest enough with ourselves and admit that at this
stage of Armenian evolution, we as a people couldn't realistically
expect a better system of government. Having said that, however, I
must also admit that Armenia's overall situation, relatively speaking,
is really not all that bad!
Anyway, without any further ado, I now want to present the reader an
excellent essay written by a cyberian colleague. In my humble opinion,
this brilliant young Armenian patriot living in western Europe has
a better, healthier and more patriotic vision than all of Armenia's
so-called political opposition combined. His work titled "Collective
Destructionsim" is posted immediately below this prologue. Moreover, in
today's turbulent sea of "the sky is falling" rhetoric and predictions
of impending doom, I have found several very rare voices of sanity,
objectivity and optimism. The very rare works in question are posted
on this page for all to read. It may just be that because the region's
proverbial powder keg is getting close-and-closer to the verge of
explosion, more-and-more self-respecting Armenians with clear vision
and healthy minds are beginning to come forward and speak-up against
our people's destructive politics, destructive habits and destructive
attitudes.
Arevordi August, 2012
Read more at
http://theriseofrussia.blogspot.de/2012/08/collective-destructionism-and-armenias.html
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress