Armenian collective conscience

So I forgot that I blog here again, and apparently so did Arman...

It's tough to keep a blog that's solely devoted to politics and Armenian news, since when I don't see anything worthwhile to talk about I just don't blog here. My current schedule is a mess too, school is ruling my life with a wrath that it hasn't had in a long time, and most of my free time is spent sleeping (I have gone out once in the past 1.5 months).

Right now I'm sitting in my room with a really annoying fly buzzing around me. It's a big one too, which should make it an easy target but for some reason I haven't been able to swat it down (I like to swat flys out of the air instead of waiting untill they land since it's more fun). This is pretty much my break from studying.

Some news about the apparent anthem being changed, it's been shelved, woohoo (whatever). Making a big deal about nothing... which reminds me of this one guy in Glendale...

Stepan Partamian is his name, he is known for having very controversial views on Armenians and bashes us all the time. He had a one man show at the Alex Theatre a while back, and me and Arman went. Neither of us like the guy but we thought it would be interesting to see this show. It was more of the same from him, just talking a bunch of nonsene, whever you get a big group of Armenians together to talk about our culture/politics, you really don't get anywhere. Granted, Partamian is bringing these issues to our conscience, but do we really need someone to do that? There are a TON of people in the Armenian/Diasporan community who merely talk, and in the end people are satisfied with having a good discussion. Yet how many of these guys who bring up issues do anything about it? I suppose I'm guilty of doing this too by talking about it, but I'm not reaching a wide audience and getting on a high horse about it, which leads me to my next point...

Armenians lack leadership. When was the last time we had a good leader? And I'm NOT talking about military leaders or fedayis (Monte Melkonian, Zoravor Andranik). Those guys were great, and I respect their sacrifices, but can we say Armenia has had a good leader in government? Politics? Anything other than military? Karen Demirchian maybe, or maybe not. I must be forgetting someone. There is a sense of insecurity in the Armenian collective conscience, and I think having a good leader will be a big step forward in rectifying this issue, while having someone just bring up the same old issues to the spotlight will not do much.