It is hard for me to write about him because it seems I know him well. His first articles, which were published in the Lragir daily, may be considered the first pieces of the independent generation. In general, the revolutions, wars and women very quickly make the men mature. It happens so fast that he the men don’t realize this whole process and don’t enjoy the process. This fact makes the future activity of the man fragmental. Nicol is strongly fragmental but not completely. The Armenian reality in fact doesn’t bear complete people. Despite the fact that Armenia with its geographic position and climate is a country of contrast the people are not so in fact. Even our talents are more inclined to resemble each other rather than differ. For Nicol the important thing is not the life but the chance. This feature makes him dangerous primarily for himself. In his mind he doesn’t accept the idea of the victim but is willing to sacrifices. This fact makes him a dualist. Once he makes up his mind on something he wouldn’t return back ever. For him it’s not important whether the chosen way is dangerous or not. Inside him he feels the fire, which never leaves him alone. All he has to do is to figure out whether that is divine fire or devil’s flame. His aggressiveness is more like a self-protection feature than a character. He is more ego-focused than egoist. But when the focus is lost he may turn into an egoist. He may be trusted as long as he feels unprotected. Once that feeling is lost he may not save anyone even his closest loyalists. The most dangerous thing in him is straightforwardness. Y this feature he reminds us of the first revolutionists and in terms of age he resembles the komsomols. At first he plays but when he starts to like the game he starts to believe that it should be so. The kids were like this after the World War II, Bolsheviks and Mensheviks. They were playing games like that. He may be a leader if he was able to restrain himself. He is trying to establish liberalism in his personality. He is trying to reconcile it with nationalism. Only the fact of being young enables him to withstand the pressure. Vazgen Manukyan wasn’t able to do so and was blamed of being fake liberal and nationalists. Among Armenian politicians Vano Siradeghyan may well play this role if he was young as Nicol. The nation is tempting and a political pleasure. Meanwhile, liberalism is an imperative. It is possible to wake up liberal and go to bed in the evening as a national. Besides everything liberalism is a way of living and not just a pure ideology. As long as Armenia is not willing to do so the Armenian government will stay the way it is, the people will remain with the government they have. They will stay with unbearable present and hopeless future. The people give away the power. It’s not the government that takes it. Nicol inherited Nazism from the former government and stubbornness from the current government. He is more attracted by political convictions than by pragmatic views. He doesn’t go to the reality with a language but leads the reality into the language. In this regard he is a realist. His line usually has a quiet beginning; however his style and conclusion are sharp, which also deliver certain romanticism to his words. All these features bring tragedy to him. His knowledge is usually intuitive, which comes from the drawback of education. Since 18 he has been involved in journalism thus didn’t have time to fully delve into the education process and after short time he was able to overcome the fake university knowledge. His feeling of motherland is traditional; however the current state of the country makes him refuse the history. Here also his romanticism and feeling of reality collide. He doesn’t accept the friendship of equals. He either obeys by worshiping or denies from above the ones, who are at the bottom. That is the reason why he is quite predictable. This feature comes from his sentimentality. There is a famous theory in psychology that masochism and sadism originate because of sentimentality. Both of these features owe the passion. The passion exists and is the only mediator between the mind and tangibility. Nicol loves the life not because of happiness but passion. As a journalist he doesn’t care about details. He concludes sooner than the material allows as intuition runs forward the knowledge. But he also has a great deal of problems with traps. If someone, who is able to overcome the lack of knowledge and by giving up the passion may become a good politician. But he may hardly be a good statesman. The reason is that his personality is more developed than his individuality. The struggle is an opportunity for existence. But that is not the only way. It is a way of getting rid of the entanglement and the no-way feeling. The only way of making the struggle perfect is heroism. And when the society and people need heroism it means that this society and people are desperately condemned. The fast growing not only has its reasons but also consequences. Nicol is the late hero of the late society, who is trying to retrieve the times, when this hero was necessary. Not because of Nicol Paul Valerie writes, “The hero is looking for a disaster. It is impossible to have a hero without disaster. Caesar is looking for Brutus, Napoleon is looking fro St. Heghine, and Heracles finds his apron… Achilles finds his ankle, Napoleon finds the St. Island, Joan needs the hearth and the butterfly needs flame.”
