{"id":165383,"date":"2010-08-29T12:59:20","date_gmt":"2010-08-29T12:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.moldova.org\/2010\/08\/29\/philosophy-of-shame-211940-eng\/"},"modified":"2010-08-29T12:59:20","modified_gmt":"2010-08-29T12:59:20","slug":"philosophy-of-shame-211940-eng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/philosophy-of-shame-211940-eng\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cPhilosophy\u201d of shame"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 3<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

By Andrei Munteanu <\/em> The first president of the Republic of Moldova – Mr. Mircea Snegur – while being interviewed by a journalist on the occasion of Independence Day, pretended to “give a lesson”, which unveils not only his incapacity to do something tangible for the country, but rather – attempts to at least alleviate the citizens’ hardships in his country, in a way which, mildly could be called – manipulative.<\/p>\n

The ex-president tries to teach the population that: “…we should not confound the independence of the state with economic independence”.<\/p>\n

This kind of philosophy has been being promoted and disseminated among the Moldovan population like subliminal messages, in a whole series of tricky manners, and unfortunately, it is still there.<\/p>\n

Judging by his words it is easily perceivable that the ex-president tries to elude from the sensitive issue of independence at all, and also the fact that he, personally, does not seem to believe in what he has been pretending to promote during his presidency and afterwards.<\/p>\n

By these words the former president either (i) subjects to real doubt any kind of independence of the Republic of Moldova, or (ii) that eventually, he seems to confuse “economic independence” with “economic partnership” among countries. So, it is quite wondering – doesn’t he understand that any kind of inter-countries economic partnerships should no way mean giving up part of anyone’s independence?<\/p>\n

Reasonably speaking – could we ever think of any kind of independence without economic independence? To me it is very doubtful. If Mr. ex-president indulges to admit this kind of confusion in his stance – one could hardly think he may have ever believed and acted for what he has been talking about, as president and afterwards. At the same time, once he touches upon this subject, it means most probably he admits a deliberate speculation on this sensitive issue.<\/p>\n

This is an obvious dichotomy which unveils the mismatch between words and actions of a political leader. This seems to be nothing but an acknowledgement of a philosophy of his presidency failure, and\/or deliberate political tricking, and saying so with hope that may be nobody will understand… what he really means.<\/p>\n

Judging by the words of the ex-president one could easily admit that no use to strive for any “economic independence”, because once you get “statehood independence” – one’s problems are solved; why strive for more?<\/p>\n

At the same time, behind this stance it seems like discussion of independence in the Republic of Moldova has been mostly a “window-dressing” subject, a lip-service at highest level in the political rhetoric of the country, and now, when real steps are undertaken in this regard by current political leaders, he thinks may be this kind of “philosophy” is quite timely to be reminded… If there is no credible independence there is no real freedom, and Mircea Snegur’s words sound like: “Take care of what you want…”.<\/p>\n

It is also a display of the fact that in the Republic of Moldova, at least during the time-span of his being president – no tangible measures and efforts have been done to really achieve any kind of independence; or, that little has been done to consolidate the independence of the country, in terms of economic performance and capacity building of a nation. Let alone his, and many others of his allies’, attitude towards education in this country.<\/p>\n

Just to paraphrase Mr. ex-president, and based on previous experience of the Republic of Moldova, I can conclude that one can never think of any statehood independence without economic independence, and, if there is no economic independence, based on which a nation could build parity-based economic partnerships at international level – may be rather just avoid this issue in “speeches”, rather than leaving room for “neo-illusionism” emergence in Moldova.<\/p>\n

If this philosophy is to be taken for granted, one could easily be tempted to justify corruption as something that has never done anything wrong to the economic strength of a country and no one can ever claim that he – the former president – may have tolerated, and even contributed, to its wide-spreading in the country.
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Reading Time: <\/span> 3<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>The first president of the Republic of Moldova \u2013 Mr. Mircea Snegur \u2013 while being interviewed by a journalist on the occasion of Independence Day, pretended to \u201cgive a lesson\u201d, which unveils not only his incapacity to do something tangible for the country, but rather \u2013 attempts to at least alleviate the citizens\u2019 hardships in his country, in a way which, mildly could be called \u2013 manipulative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":165382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"content_social_share":"Reading Time: <\/span> 3<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

By Andrei Munteanu <\/em> The first president of the Republic of Moldova – Mr. Mircea Snegur – while being interviewed by a journalist on the occasion of Independence Day, pretended to “give a lesson”, which unveils not only his incapacity to do something tangible for the country, but rather – attempts to at least alleviate the citizens’ hardships in his country, in a way which, mildly could be called – manipulative.<\/p>\n

The ex-president tries to teach the population that: “…we should not confound the independence of the state with economic independence”.<\/p>\n

This kind of philosophy has been being promoted and disseminated among the Moldovan population like subliminal messages, in a whole series of tricky manners, and unfortunately, it is still there.<\/p>\n

Judging by his words it is easily perceivable that the ex-president tries to elude from the sensitive issue of independence at all, and also the fact that he, personally, does not seem to believe in what he has been pretending to promote during his presidency and afterwards.<\/p>\n

By these words the former president either (i) subjects to real doubt any kind of independence of the Republic of Moldova, or (ii) that eventually, he seems to confuse “economic independence” with “economic partnership” among countries. So, it is quite wondering – doesn’t he understand that any kind of inter-countries economic partnerships should no way mean giving up part of anyone’s independence?<\/p>\n

Reasonably speaking – could we ever think of any kind of independence without economic independence? To me it is very doubtful. If Mr. ex-president indulges to admit this kind of confusion in his stance – one could hardly think he may have ever believed and acted for what he has been talking about, as president and afterwards. At the same time, once he touches upon this subject, it means most probably he admits a deliberate speculation on this sensitive issue.<\/p>\n

This is an obvious dichotomy which unveils the mismatch between words and actions of a political leader. This seems to be nothing but an acknowledgement of a philosophy of his presidency failure, and\/or deliberate political tricking, and saying so with hope that may be nobody will understand… what he really means.<\/p>\n

Judging by the words of the ex-president one could easily admit that no use to strive for any “economic independence”, because once you get “statehood independence” – one’s problems are solved; why strive for more?<\/p>\n

At the same time, behind this stance it seems like discussion of independence in the Republic of Moldova has been mostly a “window-dressing” subject, a lip-service at highest level in the political rhetoric of the country, and now, when real steps are undertaken in this regard by current political leaders, he thinks may be this kind of “philosophy” is quite timely to be reminded… If there is no credible independence there is no real freedom, and Mircea Snegur’s words sound like: “Take care of what you want…”.<\/p>\n

It is also a display of the fact that in the Republic of Moldova, at least during the time-span of his being president – no tangible measures and efforts have been done to really achieve any kind of independence; or, that little has been done to consolidate the independence of the country, in terms of economic performance and capacity building of a nation. Let alone his, and many others of his allies’, attitude towards education in this country.<\/p>\n

Just to paraphrase Mr. ex-president, and based on previous experience of the Republic of Moldova, I can conclude that one can never think of any statehood independence without economic independence, and, if there is no economic independence, based on which a nation could build parity-based economic partnerships at international level – may be rather just avoid this issue in “speeches”, rather than leaving room for “neo-illusionism” emergence in Moldova.<\/p>\n

If this philosophy is to be taken for granted, one could easily be tempted to justify corruption as something that has never done anything wrong to the economic strength of a country and no one can ever claim that he – the former president – may have tolerated, and even contributed, to its wide-spreading in the country.
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