CLINTON, TRUMP, SARGSYAN, AND POKÉMON

With all the hype about the new Pokémon Go – an augmented reality game that has become a cause of obsession for many – the current political developments for Armenian-Americans remain top-ranking for the most part. Clinton’s infamous DNC leak, Trump’s tax return mystery, and Sargsyan’s ambiguous course, once again, come to assert that today’s political arena is not too different from Pokémon’s reality. We unceasingly search for, and if lucky, capture peculiar characters. We spend a lifetime to tame and train them only to throw to the arena of vicious battles against other Pokémon. The ethical problem here is that the augmented reality as well as today’s politics have nothing to do with the objective reality – the real life that exists independently of our perceptions. I think this is why people are disoriented in matters concerning moral values, conventional truths, and even basic life principles that are being sold to us in a twisted form of relativity. Whether we’re Republicans or Democrats, whether we support Sargsyan’s regime or could not care less about politics, whether we play Pokémon Go or boycott modern technology, it must be made clear that life is much bigger than us. Life is the gift of God and it does have a purpose. No matter how hard the interest groups try to feed us with false ideologies, we should never lose our moral compass and the touch with objective reality. God have mercy on us.