„Notoriousness” mania
By Andrei Munteanu
The political scene of the Republic of Moldova (R.M.) is overcrowded. This could be explainable in a way, because in the soviet time the R.M. used to be considered the republic with the highest density of the population among all the other „sisters”.
Although a good deal of the Moldovan population is abroad, „the agglomeration syndrome” has been perceived deeply in the culture and social consciousness, and as of today – there’s what we have:
(i) a myriad of political parties, many of them with pseudo-ideological grounds or no ideological grounds at all,
(ii) an excessively vulnerable population to cheap speculations and lies,
(iii) a population which is not quite much aware of its own drama to live without long-term strategic vision, to be based on sustainable values, and
(iv) many politicians affected by „notoriousness” mania, who, for the sake of keeping themselves “renowned” rush to make many strange statements. A „sample” of this kind of statement is also the one made recently by Valeriu Pasat.
Undoubtedly, no one would try to „shrink” the number of political statements and/or discourage social dynamism, however, being unaware of which is the quality of the dynamism, its manifestation forms and/or just overlooking it – would be another “fitness hour” for our wandering, in search of ourselves.
20 years have gone already since independence declaration and we still keep „quarrying” the good life, without knowing what this really is. We have learned to blame on others in situations of failures, we keep defying and tabooing the notions of honor and human dignity, and, continue to „skid” in terms of unmasking and discouraging dictatorial manners of „public administration”, as evidence of the fact that … from the past we have learned almost nothing.
In broad lines, the population of the R.M. has an attitudinal structure specific to its geographical placement, reflected by political affiliation to some political parties, which is roughly like this:
(i) very many get involved in politics just out of illiberal interests,
(ii) many out of emotional manifestations, stirred up by nepotism and irrational reasons, because they like the leader (either due to one’s charisma or hoping that eventually will “get something”) and
(iii) very few out of rationales to eventually live better, by means gained in dignified manner, and get a sustainable well.
The declaration of Mr. Pasat seems to be mostly a “symbiosis” of the first two categories mentioned above.
This makes us never forget that nevertheless, on the background of the various segments of interests in, and towards the, R.M., we think to rationalize, first of all we – the citizens of the R.M., because only this way one could draw conclusions of due quality, versus those which we used to be imposed during dictatorship time.
If so far, after having been so many years in the ex-URSS could not get a normal living, if so far Moscow has involved brutally in the domestic affairs of the R.M. and displayed exclusively pressures on the people of the R.M. and democratic oriented politicians, if the territory of Transnistria is used with so much cynicism to blackmail us in exercising our undisguised right to live a humane lifestyle – why should we believe that an eventual shifting of foreign policy line, by joining the customs union of Belarus-Kazahstan-Russia would make us happy?
Would anyone want to convince us that this eventual join-in would not admit any more violation of our border by unidentified planes, like the one on August 19, this year in Briceni town’s neighborhood? Why should we believe that once there have not been crystallized some normal relationships between the „center” and „CIS subjects” so far, now somebody’s „ chakra” will get opened… just out of thin air, and soon we will be „happier”, only provided we accept again, some empty illusions, instead of a development model based on human sustainable values?
I am thinking of it not accidentally. From the readings I find out that what used to be done in the USA back in 1780’s, it wasn’t done in the former USSR for 70 years, and, still in our R.M. has been done almost nothing in this regard.
Benjamin Rush, a Philadelphia physician and signer of the Declaration of Independence, who acted in the respective period, said that: “The form of government we have assumed has created a new class of duties to every American, … [and that]: Education was essential to equip citizens to use the power of the ballot wisely”.
One should notice that Mr. Rush started not from the rights but from duties, and campaigned that in a way that the rights were not violated, and this value is kept sacredly until nowadays.
Thus, instead of taking some essential measures to eventually do some good things for the sake of advancing societal capacities of the Moldovan population, to „use the power of the ballot wisely”, here in the R.M. keep being “pumped” confusions, out of „immense love for the people”, and not least because many politicians, actually, do not care of people and the future of the latter, but just to become „notorious” by all means.
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