The skinheads’ genesis

17/09/2007 Tigran PASKEVICHYAN

-Where did these ugly skinheads came from? Once I heard this question from someone, who also told that there hadn’t been such people before.
 
If they were born during the recent fifteen years, they would have maximum 15 years. If they were born before that, according to the rules of genetics their parents had to be as ugly skinheads as they are. However, the person that asked the mentioned question said that there hadn’t been such people before without understanding that skinheads can come out from things that don’t have any meaning. Furthermore, in order to recognize them, the most important thing is not their parameters such as their heads, the diameter of their heads, etc.

Skinheads are not met only with oligarchs or in their company. They are everywhere, but we often see them in expensive cars, casinos and restaurants. The reason is the fact that instead of the real meaning we are paying attention to their technical parameters.

If a young and beautiful lady works at a café, earns her living and pays for her studies, it looks wonderful. But when she sees a beggar near the cafe she cries at the beggar so loudly that besides the beggar even the clients get afraid of her voice. Answering to the question why she insulted that beggar the lady says that the chief of the cafe has told her to do so. The technical parameters don’t correspond with the established image. She has a slim neck, blue and transparent eyes, light long hair, when she brings coffee her fingers seem so beautiful like church candles. However, does she differ from skinheads with her behavior? No.

Early in the morning you see a young handsome man bringing his child to school. He kisses the child and takes his car and goes to work. He is a police or prosecutor investigation officer – this is how he keeps his family. While the lessons are in process he is doing his duties and questions some witnesses (I don’t mean suspected persons). The witness leaves his room being in very bad emotional situation (having been either beaten or insulted). Later he comes to that school, waits for his child and takes home. No one may say that this handsome person is skinhead deep inside. Certainly, in such case there are catalysts too. For instance, if someone closes the way of his car, he may look through the window and cry at the other driver, “hey stupid blockhead, take your car and get out of here!”

You see a beautiful woman, who has a job and works normally. She has more potential, but less possibilities. She is jealous with the success of others, but she doesn’t show it. Later, her colleagues see that this beautiful woman has written some hidden letters to hinder the success of others. This is unexpected… How could you expect that this woman could be an undiscovered skinhead?

You may appear in a traffic congestion, which are met often in Yerevan, and you see that the driver of a “Lada” model car behind you (just “Lada”, not another model) is honking. You are looking in the mirror and see his hair is in place, but the face is tired. He sees the line of cars in front, he understands that he can’t even see the end of that line, but he still keeps honking. Does he have to have a shaved head and thick neck in order to be a typical skinhead?

Aren’t the judges who do orders skinheads? You may see a solid person during a wedding or birthday party, who drinks toasts about a strong family, parents, relatives, love and happy family. However, in his job he is very like the waitress of the café we discussed above, who becomes the “skinhead bodyguard” of his boss in favor of getting tips. This one is the skinhead of the president, the general public prosecutor or the prime minister, but in his biography he writes that he has certain grades of justice.

The president and prime minister have never experienced lack of skinheads. Besides the skinheads, who are in office and are doing their duties, they have a number of volunteer skinheads. Someone with a tie sitting in an office in a remote village community feels like the bodyguard of the prime minister. He is not sitting there in order to protect the interests of the citizens of that community, but in order to advocate the policy of their party and the government.
 
Even those people in politics, who haven’t found a way to success and have decided to try themselves in politics, have their skinhead bodyguards. Skinheads are not only for beating people and journalists; they can also open ways, take care of their boss… Notwithstanding their hairy appearance they are voluntarily suggesting to open the ways for their boss too. However, the difference between them is the fact that the political ones can yell, fight, threat, but the others have to silently do their job until the age of the skinheads finishes.