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Levon And Raffi: Cosa Nostra
Levon Ter-Petrosyan and Raffi Hovannisian have joined the class of
`winner candidates' including Vazgen Manukyan, Karen and Stepan
Demirchyan. But they announced that they will not give up their
struggle. Ter-Petrosyan said that even if they have to fight for 100
years with no result, they will do that, and Raffi Hovannisian said
that he is going to continue rallies and civil forums.
Fight is fight when it produces some result. Result can be different,
it depends on how you perceive it. It can be tangible and intangible.
In the first case, nothing has changed. The government and its
monolith have become stronger. In this sense, the results of the fight
are negative.
The intangible part is more interesting. Thanks to the movements in
2008 and 2013, public thinking underwent huge change. It gave up
unrealistic ideas and realized the power of law and right. Civil
activists emerged who adopted new and effective mechanisms of fight
which differed from the algorithms of the political class.
In this context, political forces failed to be adequate to the new
situation and continued acting in accordance with the old logic the
essence of which was the fight for power and trade with the
authorities. For its part, it brought about split between political
leadership of movements and civil claims.
In the result of negotiations with the government the Armenian
National Congress headed by Levon Ter-Petrosyan entered the
parliament, Raffi Hovannisian's Barev Yerevan in the Council of Elders
of Yerevan. Both parties are constantly losing public confidence and
support.
The appreciable result both movements ensured is the progress of
thinking and the system of values of the society. It is noteworthy
that the speed of progress is directly proportional to the speed of
collapse of political parties. The society makes tough assessments of
those forces which preferred their own interest in the form of
mandates and quotas to the public interest and ambitions, taking part
in crimes against the society. The political forces were as much
afraid of the public result of movements as the government.
So, the issue is not the result but the assessment and behavior. It is
easy to blame the public for everything, saying that it sells its vote
and has a slave's thinking. The difficult part is to be adequate to
the real, intangible result which does not suppose for mandates and
money but self-sacrifice. But our political forces prefer anyone else
to die but not them. In this case there is no need to be offended by a
dying society.
Levon and Raffi can go to the village of Martz and join the heroic
resistance of villagers against the construction of water power plant.
They can put up their tents there and fight till the end to achieve
their lasting victory. This will be an action and a result, both
tangible and intangible.
This is the logic of today's fight. The society decided that it will
not `die' anymore but those who tried to achieve their own goals at
the expense of the society will.
Haik Aramyan
14:08 11/05/2013
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/index.php/eng/0/comments/view/29853
Levon Ter-Petrosyan and Raffi Hovannisian have joined the class of
`winner candidates' including Vazgen Manukyan, Karen and Stepan
Demirchyan. But they announced that they will not give up their
struggle. Ter-Petrosyan said that even if they have to fight for 100
years with no result, they will do that, and Raffi Hovannisian said
that he is going to continue rallies and civil forums.
Fight is fight when it produces some result. Result can be different,
it depends on how you perceive it. It can be tangible and intangible.
In the first case, nothing has changed. The government and its
monolith have become stronger. In this sense, the results of the fight
are negative.
The intangible part is more interesting. Thanks to the movements in
2008 and 2013, public thinking underwent huge change. It gave up
unrealistic ideas and realized the power of law and right. Civil
activists emerged who adopted new and effective mechanisms of fight
which differed from the algorithms of the political class.
In this context, political forces failed to be adequate to the new
situation and continued acting in accordance with the old logic the
essence of which was the fight for power and trade with the
authorities. For its part, it brought about split between political
leadership of movements and civil claims.
In the result of negotiations with the government the Armenian
National Congress headed by Levon Ter-Petrosyan entered the
parliament, Raffi Hovannisian's Barev Yerevan in the Council of Elders
of Yerevan. Both parties are constantly losing public confidence and
support.
The appreciable result both movements ensured is the progress of
thinking and the system of values of the society. It is noteworthy
that the speed of progress is directly proportional to the speed of
collapse of political parties. The society makes tough assessments of
those forces which preferred their own interest in the form of
mandates and quotas to the public interest and ambitions, taking part
in crimes against the society. The political forces were as much
afraid of the public result of movements as the government.
So, the issue is not the result but the assessment and behavior. It is
easy to blame the public for everything, saying that it sells its vote
and has a slave's thinking. The difficult part is to be adequate to
the real, intangible result which does not suppose for mandates and
money but self-sacrifice. But our political forces prefer anyone else
to die but not them. In this case there is no need to be offended by a
dying society.
Levon and Raffi can go to the village of Martz and join the heroic
resistance of villagers against the construction of water power plant.
They can put up their tents there and fight till the end to achieve
their lasting victory. This will be an action and a result, both
tangible and intangible.
This is the logic of today's fight. The society decided that it will
not `die' anymore but those who tried to achieve their own goals at
the expense of the society will.
Haik Aramyan
14:08 11/05/2013
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/index.php/eng/0/comments/view/29853