The biggest anomaly in the political field of Armenia is the current calmness. After the loss of Artsakh, depopulation and in the conditions of security challenges threatening Armenia, the political field only provides a presence on duty. Society as a whole lives in a completely different reality, which is cut off from both the government and the opposition.

It is not that the ontological problems facing the state are not realized by the opposition or at least part of the public. These problems are recognized even in some circles of the government. But awareness does not lead to action, and now everyone is busy not thinking about action, making action plans, but presenting justifications justifying their own inaction.

The most common of them is that the society is waiting for a leader, who objectively does not exist in the political field at the moment, in order to wake up from stupor and get out of apathy. There is a lot of truth in that thesis. Yes, the society, being psychologically and traditionally individualistic, is looking for a leader to solve the problems facing the state, who can become the embodiment of the struggle against the government. This, conventionally speaking, is the political demand presented by the public, which the opposition political forces are unable to satisfy at the moment.

On the other hand, however, politics is an occupation different from business, and being guided by the classic scheme of supply and demand in it can have very negative consequences for the state, as we are witnessing today. The task and mission of the political system is not only, and more often, not blindly satisfying the public demand, but the generation of such a proposal, which, with proper communication, can be formulated as a political demand of the public.

This is more than important, considering the current realities and challenges of Armenia, which no individual, no leader can overcome. The role of the political system, therefore, should be such work with the public that will move the public demand from an individual, from a person to the level of ideas, systems, teams, programs. Today’s threats to Armenia can be overcome only in the case of systematic, team work, the basis of which will not be the individual qualities of any leader, even the most virtuous, but such value and ideological provisions, which by realizing individual individuals can take over the political struggle, and later also the leadership of the state.

 Armenia is dethroning today, among other factors, also, and perhaps first of all, because of a personal-centered government, when the entire state system is served by the will of one person. And that means that Armenia needs not so much a new person, new persons, but new systems, such systems that will not serve individuals, but will be served by individuals. Otherwise, a society that blindly believes in an individual once found on the street will continue to look for a savior, not realizing that real salvation can begin when the search for a savior stops.

Harutyun Avetisyan