People come up with different ideas in the summer when everything is quiet on the political field (this year one of the reasons is the world soccer cup). For instance, I often ask myself whether only the government is guilty for the fact that everything is not so good as it could be. Sometimes it is worse than it could be. They have their blame for sure, but citizens are also to blame.
Mikhail Bulgakov wrote in his tale “Dog’s heart” that collapse starts from the head because if people don’t enter bathrooms and do what they want near the bathrooms, it means that their minds are most probably collapsing. I decided to write about this collapse after traveling by a new bus in the city.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, citizens don’t travel by bus anymore; it has become a hobby for extreme athletes to use other types of public transportation such as the trolleybus and city trains. The metro is the only means of transportation remaining from the Soviet Union. Recently the Georgian government imported big yellow buses from Holland to maintain the transportation capacity of Tbilisi. The governmetn also imported new small buses from Ukraine.
Recently I decided to travel by those buses in the city and got very angry. What idiot needed to cut the seats of the bus with his knife? Why did they write their names everywhere in the bus? Why did they throw things in the bus and spoil the saloon? Why don’t the transportation companies wash the buses before taking them out to the city? Perhaps people are so impolite in our city that after cleaning the buses they get dirty again very soon. You can also read slang and other words written in those buses. Even though I haven’t traveled much abroad, however I haven’t seen such things. There are idiots there too, but there aren’t so many of them as in Georgia (I mean both European countries and Armenia).
Recently, the Tbilisi municipality announced about its plans to reconstruct the underground stations of Tbilisi. During this reconstruction, the metro continued to work. Only one station has been reconstructed and renovated so far. Just after finishing the reconstruction of this station, some idiots made holes on the plastic that covered the walls of the escalators. Now we wonder why they waste their money on such reconstructions if people don’t give a damn about it… I don’t think that it is worth reconstructing and importing new buses for us Armenians. Armenian mentality doesn’t let us do that. We don’t stop anyone from making violations until it concerns us in particular. That is why all neighborhood corners are smelly. Is the government to blame for this? Where does the collapse start? Does it start from the top of the pyramid or in our heads? In such cases, the collapse starts in our heads. In other words, we shouldn’t blame the authorities for our misfortune. The authorities that are raised correspond to the current society of the state. This is how we Armenians are now.