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Siranuysh Papyan
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/interview26143.html
Published: 17:19:44 - 10/05/2012
Interview with Nvard Manasyan, political scientist, education expert
Nvard, the parliamentary elections are in the past, most people think
this situation will last till 2018. What ways out do you see?
We have a small example of materialization of values, positive poles
with small percentage emerged which will face to still unrevealed,
even negatively assessed majority, and the confrontation in crisis
opens up a big horizon, and in this sense we have an opportunity for
a good progress both in the country and in the region. By an oriental
approach, we are strong with our weakness and we are the weakest by
the consciousness of strength. Consequently, we are both weak and
strong. We are weak with a strong majority in parliament, we are
weak and our weakness will be used, we are strong by this weakness
and this weakness will resolve things which cannot be solved in a
stage of strong identity.
No opposition is left in the street, everyone was shifted to the
National Assembly. Will the civic activity which had a victory in
the fight for saving Trchkan waterfall and Mashtots Park form a new
force which will be able to retrieve the country from crisis?
Victories will continue and these are not only result-based victories,
they are victories of progress and values. This is the case when we
are weak in our strength and the strong majority with its strength will
make more frequent mistakes and cannot avoid this. Any identity which
is aware of one's own strength always stumbles more often than if it
were weak, those weak are more cautious. Now this big, non-cautious,
selfish majority will constantly foster the emergence of different
civil hotbeds, such as in universities. The confidence with which
the minister of education and culture dismissed the president of the
university opened up new opportunities for appreciating independence
and self-determination because freedom without self-determination
is very dangerous, the framework of populism is freedom which has
no self-determination, in other words, there is no civil position
and values, there are no approaches for freedom, there is no
responsibility. They will be many, and look, the elections still in
progress, the rumors that the building of the Armenian Organization
of Cultural Cooperation may be dismantled spread at a high speed,
while if I am not mistaken the reaction to the house of the Afrikyan
family was not so fast. The buildings are equal in value but now the
nerve is open, and more people react and understand that this is not
just a thematic issue.
The people who have been active towards the establishment of a civil
society say that these are, unfortunately, fragments of success,
no systemic success has been achieved yet. Why?
Fragmental beginning will make systemic success possible, and this
is the signal of qualification of the species and the beginning of
progress. New qualities emerge in different small groups, that is
the ability to express one's own identity, and it will show that
these separate qualified groups will start shelling with qualities
the silent majority which has no coloring and position. They will
definitely change our reality and make possible systemic changes. It is
not strange that two or three days after the elections people are not
angry, you will not see angry, disappointed people. In other words,
though the political forces say that they offered systemic solutions
and the plans are complete, the understanding is the vision of a small
group and thus the majority does not have ownership. The vision will
mature by way of civil movements and resistance.
Resistance is the ability to say no consciously.
Nvard, do you agree that there was no alternative to electoral bribes
so they accepted? Why was the field so ideologically void?
The political forces offer correct abstract solutions but abstraction
must be visible to each of us. When we are told about planting trees,
they must go to Mashtots Park in person and be visible by their
struggle and solution, they must be visible in Trchkan, then Teghut,
the statements on non-partisan education system must be resolved
by way of struggle of the Linguistic University. The rights must
be promoted by way of struggle and tactical approaches to it. Then
we will understand that we need to fight for our labor rights, by
bringing into being real trade unions which are mere formality today.
In your opinion, was the conduct of this election progress?
In form, yes. If you are not asked out of the polling station
or they do not stuff the ballot box, the progress is a formality
but it is meaningless. One can insist with great confidence that
what we survived was a 100% formal election which had no content,
while a content-free election is not an election. People with civic
self-determination have not come to the polling stations. They did
not understand that they voted for the idea so there was no free
expression of will of citizen. Having to choose between money and
meaningless and non-understandable idea, a hungry man will choose
money, and this man should not be reproached for his choice.
Siranuysh Papyan
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/interview26143.html
Published: 17:19:44 - 10/05/2012
Interview with Nvard Manasyan, political scientist, education expert
Nvard, the parliamentary elections are in the past, most people think
this situation will last till 2018. What ways out do you see?
We have a small example of materialization of values, positive poles
with small percentage emerged which will face to still unrevealed,
even negatively assessed majority, and the confrontation in crisis
opens up a big horizon, and in this sense we have an opportunity for
a good progress both in the country and in the region. By an oriental
approach, we are strong with our weakness and we are the weakest by
the consciousness of strength. Consequently, we are both weak and
strong. We are weak with a strong majority in parliament, we are
weak and our weakness will be used, we are strong by this weakness
and this weakness will resolve things which cannot be solved in a
stage of strong identity.
No opposition is left in the street, everyone was shifted to the
National Assembly. Will the civic activity which had a victory in
the fight for saving Trchkan waterfall and Mashtots Park form a new
force which will be able to retrieve the country from crisis?
Victories will continue and these are not only result-based victories,
they are victories of progress and values. This is the case when we
are weak in our strength and the strong majority with its strength will
make more frequent mistakes and cannot avoid this. Any identity which
is aware of one's own strength always stumbles more often than if it
were weak, those weak are more cautious. Now this big, non-cautious,
selfish majority will constantly foster the emergence of different
civil hotbeds, such as in universities. The confidence with which
the minister of education and culture dismissed the president of the
university opened up new opportunities for appreciating independence
and self-determination because freedom without self-determination
is very dangerous, the framework of populism is freedom which has
no self-determination, in other words, there is no civil position
and values, there are no approaches for freedom, there is no
responsibility. They will be many, and look, the elections still in
progress, the rumors that the building of the Armenian Organization
of Cultural Cooperation may be dismantled spread at a high speed,
while if I am not mistaken the reaction to the house of the Afrikyan
family was not so fast. The buildings are equal in value but now the
nerve is open, and more people react and understand that this is not
just a thematic issue.
The people who have been active towards the establishment of a civil
society say that these are, unfortunately, fragments of success,
no systemic success has been achieved yet. Why?
Fragmental beginning will make systemic success possible, and this
is the signal of qualification of the species and the beginning of
progress. New qualities emerge in different small groups, that is
the ability to express one's own identity, and it will show that
these separate qualified groups will start shelling with qualities
the silent majority which has no coloring and position. They will
definitely change our reality and make possible systemic changes. It is
not strange that two or three days after the elections people are not
angry, you will not see angry, disappointed people. In other words,
though the political forces say that they offered systemic solutions
and the plans are complete, the understanding is the vision of a small
group and thus the majority does not have ownership. The vision will
mature by way of civil movements and resistance.
Resistance is the ability to say no consciously.
Nvard, do you agree that there was no alternative to electoral bribes
so they accepted? Why was the field so ideologically void?
The political forces offer correct abstract solutions but abstraction
must be visible to each of us. When we are told about planting trees,
they must go to Mashtots Park in person and be visible by their
struggle and solution, they must be visible in Trchkan, then Teghut,
the statements on non-partisan education system must be resolved
by way of struggle of the Linguistic University. The rights must
be promoted by way of struggle and tactical approaches to it. Then
we will understand that we need to fight for our labor rights, by
bringing into being real trade unions which are mere formality today.
In your opinion, was the conduct of this election progress?
In form, yes. If you are not asked out of the polling station
or they do not stuff the ballot box, the progress is a formality
but it is meaningless. One can insist with great confidence that
what we survived was a 100% formal election which had no content,
while a content-free election is not an election. People with civic
self-determination have not come to the polling stations. They did
not understand that they voted for the idea so there was no free
expression of will of citizen. Having to choose between money and
meaningless and non-understandable idea, a hungry man will choose
money, and this man should not be reproached for his choice.