"Big bosses" of a small country, or a virus, affecting the Azerbaijani society

Unfortunately, the paradoxicalness of our country is no positive but destructive. It would be enough to take a walk along the Baku streets to make it clear that the majority of our population has already been infected with the "big boss" virus. Today, we will speak about the consequences of this disease, as well as its symptoms.

Money has no smell

It is September evening and I am in a taxi on my way home. The taxi driver is talking about his difficult life, about the bitter fate of a refugee.

Even in the dim light of the car lamp it is obvious that the driver is about 40 years of age and he has an athletic body. He says he is from Aghdam and he has been been a driver for all his life. He currently earns a living in Baku driving a taxi, it is enough for living, but he wants to have more. And the most interesting is that he accuses the Azerbaijani government of his failure to attain the desired goal. Well, the question is: "Why did he not sacrifice his life for his native lands, which are under Armenian occupied? Why does he consider that someone owes something to him? Why does he consider that he deserves a better life? The taxi driver's response is laconic: "Even if I fought, Aghdam could not be liberated. Let those who have surrendered this land think of its return and I do not want to live worse than others. People are earning their living and so I want.

The said case is a bright example of the carefully concealed topic: the syndrome of a parasite, infecting the greatest percentage of local refugees and IDP. Unfortunately, the state care of their welfare had a negative effect and now this category of the country's population considers that the state is bound to ensure best living conditions for them. Yesterday's workers of the fields and collective farms, who did not get the due level of education, tend to gain as much as a representative of a banking or an insurance sector, who got a brilliant education. At the same time, they explain this as follows: "are we worse than those who earn their living owing to their knowledge and intellect?!". This category of the Azerbaijani citizens is most infected by the "big boss" virus. But, unfortunately, not only it. The exorbitant prices of goods and services in Azerbaijan demonstrate the intention of most of our citizens to take all at once. At the same time, the level of services is not improving despite the galloping prices, and on the contrary, it is declining.

In particular, the service level is minimal in most of the local cafes and restaurants, where prices have outstripped those in Milan, Munich and Paris. It is resulting from the confidence of the management of these objects that anyway they will have customers and from the unwillingness of the personnel to work harder, as they are also infected with the "big boss" virus. Most of them are dreaming of a "fat customer" who will get drunk and leave enormous tips for them, instead of striving to earn the same, by getting small sums from each customer.

The situation is the same in most of the local shops: exaggerated prices, zero service, the groundless shows off of the shop assistants.  

Consequences

The "big boss" virus has an extremely negative influence on the economic development of Azerbaijan, for, in a striving for immediate gains people do not care of potential customers, which is, by no means, the encouragement of the service development in different service sector. In the result, the funds, allocated for tourism development, for example, would not promote the rise in the number of foreign tourists, visiting Azerbaijan, for few people, who can afford the first-rate service in neighbor Turkey, would come to Azerbaijan for the second time, once facing the Azerbaijani interpretation of the word "service". It will lead deficit of funds, which could have been transferred to the state budget from tourism.

But the economic reimbursement of the "big boss" virus do not fall under comparison with possible sociopolitical consequences of this disease. Is it surprising? I think, no, for the country, where a former veterinarian is called a political scientist and an artist, whose homosexual cartwheels are known to all the citizens of the country, does not fall out from the television screens, gets different awards and teaches life, where immorality has become a criteria of morality, to the young generation, must not be surprised with the fact that most of its citizens live striving for immediate and significant gains, but not the phased but legal earning of a capital.

The internal political future of the country raises concern. It is hard to imagine what will be the result of the appearance on the political arena of personalities, who think by categories, deeply rooted within the society, among which the most important one is an intention to get all at once. We have all chances to face the domination of obvious populists on the political arena, who will make impossible promises to the society and who will be popular among the majority, for they strive for becoming richer by doing nothing. This can result in the growing demand for political radicalism. This event is dangerous because the main feature of radical thinking is revolutionarism - underestimation of the evolutionary factors of social progress. The characteristic sign of a political radicalism is legal nihilism. Moral nihilism, based on the principle of domination of force over the law, is closely connected with legal nihilism.

In other words, all these facts prove that we are now living in a decisive period, for today the state should root out the "big boss" virus. Tomorrow may be late: the population full of radicals and populists can become a threat not only for the working powers but also for the whole Azerbaijani society.

/Day.Az/