When I was a teenager, I was sometimes complaining of the school at home, that, as if, to me, a deserved one, lower scores are given than to those who do not deserve; should I fight for the justice? My parents’ answer was the following (I transfer the meaning): “What you call a fight for justice, actually it is a fight for the sake of your own comfort. It’s quite different thing, if they behave unfair towards your friends, and not towards you. What you’re talking about is relative “higher, lower” while you should strive to be an absolute. In other words, to be the one that no one, including those who do not want you, even your arch enemy, brings the hand to give you a low score”. Here is such a difficult, but practically unrealizable issue.
The meaning, as I understood, is the following: become established, become self-identified on your own account and not at the expense of others, raising yourself and not humiliating others. In all aspects of our life, starting from politics and business, and ending with journalism and arts, the situation is exactly the opposite, people are trying to become established by ‘cheating’ others, humiliating, carrying on intrigues against him, gossiping about him.
Why are there many intrigues at the opera in Yerevan, and none at the opera in Berlin? Answering this question, our young, talented singer working in Berlin Narine Yeghiyan said, – “People are so busy here, the plays should be in such an ideal situation that there is no time left for such a thing”. The artists live there by improving their arts, by getting ready for concerts and performances and (do not be surprised) by rejoicing for each other’s successes. They strive, in short, for the absolute. We strive for the relative: “Oh, my goodness, did you know that Hripsimeh got this-and-that aria. Well, it is clear, she is a profligate”. I’m not sure that the difference is due to high or low salary.
The Deputies are the same. They do not stay hungry. But look, they are trying to gain authority by personally humiliating one another. The same is in journalism. Regular discussions are held about the journalists and the media as to being or not being “free-independent”. The goal of such presentations and publications is simple: “blackening” possible competitors, as if we are “free-independent”, while they are ruled from Baghramyan 26, or let’s say, from Kanyachney, consequently, read (see) us and not them. I, for example, admit that all our journalists are torchbearers of freedom and independence. Let’s admit it and move forward.
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Aram ABRAHAMYAN
