I am not a feminist. I have never been one. Neither am I a macho-oriented dude. I have never wanted to be. I am a regular practitioner of reason and fairness. And this article would never have seen the light had I had a funny propensity to be any of those species.

The recent UN survey is confirming that there is a heartbreaking tendency of population shrinkage in Georgia, purportedly meaning that we might not be around physically in a couple of centuries, maybe even earlier. Using the most relevant sample of juxtaposition, the number of people living in the neighboring Azerbaijan and Armenia is happily and intensively growing.

I love American wrestling but most of it happens to be faked, although sometimes the impression is that those famous big men in America are fighting in earnest. The picture in our local political life is totally different.

We all know very well that starting something from scratch is a huge pain in the neck. This is equal to starting that something right from point zero. This practically means that there is nothing in your hands to start with, to rely on, to play with and to develop – just an empty place to build the cherished ‘something’ on.

This is pathetic! This is sick! Period! This nation is not capable of hiring people on basis of their professionalism. We usually hire based on party affiliation. And this has already become a longstanding and firmly inculcated tendency in the system of administrative hiring.

Not personal – I am talking about national wisdom and stupidity, the wise and stupid decisions of national concern, the deeds on a national level that have forever remained part of the annals and are veritably defining the quality of our life today. What would have been America if not for the wise decision of the American founding fathers in the early seventies of the 18th century to defy the British rule forever?

It might be clearly ludicrous to ask a question like: what is better to be – believer, agnostic or atheist. It certainly is not the matter of being better or worse, convenient or inconvenient, acceptable or unacceptable . . . It is just the matter of feeling comfortable with any of these convictions.

Let us break down the New Year’s resolutions into several major categories: personal, familial, national and international. This done, let us expose the resolutions at those four particular levels on behalf of an average citizen of Georgia and the world as such, myself playing that responsible role.

There is no hope for social justice and democracy to take precedence over unfairness and dictatorship in Georgia without first acquiring the overwhelming sense of right and wrong in general.