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DEAD CONSCIOUSNESS AND LIGHT OF MASHTOTS
HAKOB BADALYAN
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/comments26009.html
Published: 15:57:44 - 01/05/2012
New Armenian Alphabet
After Serzh Sargsyan had visited Mashtots Park and announced that
the boutiques must be removed from the park, interestingly a campaign
started against the citizens fighting for saving the park on Mashtots
Avenue. Amazingly, the campaign was begun by other citizens and most
of them had even attended the actions in Mashtots Park. It was not
the government.
The red line running through criticism in social networks is that
activists of Mashtots Park had stated reluctant to politicize their
struggle while Serzh Sargsyan came to earn some political dividends
before the election.
Let's leave Serzh Sargsyan and his dividends alone. What dividends do
the citizens win the goal of whose social network and other activities
is to detect a "pro-government project" in Mashtots Park?
Obviously, struggle in the park is a serious challenge for all
the form and content of political struggle that has ever existed in
Armenia. Earlier, political struggle has never achieved any significant
milestone. So far the political struggle has been able to eliminate
the consequence of its failures, presenting them as results.
The "old" political movements of Armenia have not achieved any other
major goal so far and will not achieve in future either, evidence
to which is their efforts to justify their futile initiatives rather
than to find a way out of the deadlock together with their sheer army
of supporters.
This logic will certainly view Mashots Park as a "pro-government
project" because the park was effective even from the point of view
of refusal to dismantle the boutiques. A new style of civic struggle
was born and developed in the park, the style of the self-determined
citizen which personally solves its problems instead of seeking for
political "politburos" to address them.
After all, it is obvious that the efficiency of this young style is
not less than the efficiency of the so-called traditional political
stylistics.
The targets are not so big. They are only boutiques, and the history
of battles against the police is not long. The statistics of other
styles is bigger and richer. So what? What about the efficiency of
other styles?
As to the theory of "pro-government project", there is almost no
difference from the theory of "global conspiracy" the followers of
which are the Armenian government and the so-called political class.
And it should be noted that the government is not alone with this
mindset and has inspired a great part of the society that there
cannot be small or big success outside the "conspiracy theories"
and the world goes round the "universal conspiracy".
The government explains any alternative by the theory of "global
conspiracy" and considers the issue closed and has inspired a greater
part of the society with the theory of "government conspiracy" which
states: "If you are not with us, and you defy our leadership and our
truth but you are something without us, something is definitely wrong."
This is the consciousness. It is not accidental that in the struggle
with a shared pole of consciousness and mind the government always won
the struggle against it carried out in the style of the traditional
Armenian political movement because of two similarly thinking subjects
the one will win who has more material and violent resource.
Mashtots Park is a litmus paper for everyone. As to the destiny of
the boutiques, now it is a secondary issue whether Serzh Sargsyan
will have the boutiques dismantled or Serzh Sargsyan will vow but will
not change anything. Everything is secondary for this piece of litmus
paper. The important thing for this litmus paper is the cleanness which
enables writing on it a new page of the struggle for reform in Armenia.
Armenia is suffering a crisis of old pages, and perhaps even old
language and old alphabet. And perhaps it is not accidental that this
litmus paper is in Mashtots Park where the new alphabet of struggle is
being created which must go through time and space, undergo phonetic
changes, grammatical corrections until it becomes a new language of
practical united struggle that will be easily understood by citizens.
It is important that this new alphabet belongs to everyone, independent
from the constitution of struggle, space and time, and does not become
the property or monopoly of any "politburo".
HAKOB BADALYAN
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/comments26009.html
Published: 15:57:44 - 01/05/2012
New Armenian Alphabet
After Serzh Sargsyan had visited Mashtots Park and announced that
the boutiques must be removed from the park, interestingly a campaign
started against the citizens fighting for saving the park on Mashtots
Avenue. Amazingly, the campaign was begun by other citizens and most
of them had even attended the actions in Mashtots Park. It was not
the government.
The red line running through criticism in social networks is that
activists of Mashtots Park had stated reluctant to politicize their
struggle while Serzh Sargsyan came to earn some political dividends
before the election.
Let's leave Serzh Sargsyan and his dividends alone. What dividends do
the citizens win the goal of whose social network and other activities
is to detect a "pro-government project" in Mashtots Park?
Obviously, struggle in the park is a serious challenge for all
the form and content of political struggle that has ever existed in
Armenia. Earlier, political struggle has never achieved any significant
milestone. So far the political struggle has been able to eliminate
the consequence of its failures, presenting them as results.
The "old" political movements of Armenia have not achieved any other
major goal so far and will not achieve in future either, evidence
to which is their efforts to justify their futile initiatives rather
than to find a way out of the deadlock together with their sheer army
of supporters.
This logic will certainly view Mashots Park as a "pro-government
project" because the park was effective even from the point of view
of refusal to dismantle the boutiques. A new style of civic struggle
was born and developed in the park, the style of the self-determined
citizen which personally solves its problems instead of seeking for
political "politburos" to address them.
After all, it is obvious that the efficiency of this young style is
not less than the efficiency of the so-called traditional political
stylistics.
The targets are not so big. They are only boutiques, and the history
of battles against the police is not long. The statistics of other
styles is bigger and richer. So what? What about the efficiency of
other styles?
As to the theory of "pro-government project", there is almost no
difference from the theory of "global conspiracy" the followers of
which are the Armenian government and the so-called political class.
And it should be noted that the government is not alone with this
mindset and has inspired a great part of the society that there
cannot be small or big success outside the "conspiracy theories"
and the world goes round the "universal conspiracy".
The government explains any alternative by the theory of "global
conspiracy" and considers the issue closed and has inspired a greater
part of the society with the theory of "government conspiracy" which
states: "If you are not with us, and you defy our leadership and our
truth but you are something without us, something is definitely wrong."
This is the consciousness. It is not accidental that in the struggle
with a shared pole of consciousness and mind the government always won
the struggle against it carried out in the style of the traditional
Armenian political movement because of two similarly thinking subjects
the one will win who has more material and violent resource.
Mashtots Park is a litmus paper for everyone. As to the destiny of
the boutiques, now it is a secondary issue whether Serzh Sargsyan
will have the boutiques dismantled or Serzh Sargsyan will vow but will
not change anything. Everything is secondary for this piece of litmus
paper. The important thing for this litmus paper is the cleanness which
enables writing on it a new page of the struggle for reform in Armenia.
Armenia is suffering a crisis of old pages, and perhaps even old
language and old alphabet. And perhaps it is not accidental that this
litmus paper is in Mashtots Park where the new alphabet of struggle is
being created which must go through time and space, undergo phonetic
changes, grammatical corrections until it becomes a new language of
practical united struggle that will be easily understood by citizens.
It is important that this new alphabet belongs to everyone, independent
from the constitution of struggle, space and time, and does not become
the property or monopoly of any "politburo".