Attitudinal „ostrich-ism”
By Andrei Munteanu
Chisinau (Moldova.ORG) -- Having followed with interest the electoral campaign in the Republic of Moldova, I want to be attentive to any details, in order to re-assure that the choice I make in the voting will be most correct, although, generally speaking – I am one of those undecided category.
The news channels provide more and more comments of the analysts, etc., but one of them grasped my attention particularly, and I think it is worth paying attention to this kind of attitude, in a way or other – I mean the piece of news on Unimedia: „Cred că după 28 noiembrie vom reuși să depășim criza politică, declarație”/”I believe after November 28 we will manage to overcome the political crisis, declaration”.
I do not touch upon this piece of news for “unveiling” somebody personally, neither to criticize, but in attitudinal terms we got a case study worthy of full attention. There was heard a viewpoint that somebody perceived certain configurations, certain signs of optimism, that the electoral campaign is running in a normal manner…; the word normal challenged me. After a failed referendum with much intimidation towards the citizens’ attempts to express their free will, and followed miss-attitude, after several occurrences that have already taken place, of physical violence on behalf of an electoral competitor in full electoral campaign, I do not know if the situation can be considered “normal”. If after the physical aggressions some „experts” allow themselves to see the electoral campaign running in a „normal manner”, what can we expect, in attitudinal terms, on behalf of the people who do not succeed to study politology and sciences inasmuch as somebody, on TV shows, treats them as experts?
It is just regretful… and these occurrences of attitudinal nihilism does not suit the political experts’ and analysts class of the Republic of Moldova, anyway. One shouldn’t take this stance as a call to “answer in kind” to aggressive behavior of those who admitted transgressions, but, if somebody wants to be excessively „nice” towards all the electoral competitors, expressing at least a stance of condemnation towards cases of violence, the vandalization case from the town of Baltsi, etc., is very adequate for this situation. I am firmly convinced that we must be neither radicals, on the political segments we may be, but at the same time we should neither forget that indifference can provide more “inspiration” to criminal perpetrators, in the electoral campaign including, and then, with such „experts”, we could get the point when the state institutions will not have sufficient political support in order to fight these improper manifestations.
I think that indifference is dangerous, for periods of crisis, and missing attitudinal skills too, and radicalism and criminality, but, on the other hand neither attitudinal „ostrich-ism” is not welcome at all, of those who claim to be „big connoisseurs”, and in fact, endanger the societal processes in the longer run, by means of „pathetic kindness”.
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