Are you really interested who is president of the Writers Union of Armenia? And what about the Armenia the president volleyball federation of Armenia? No? I am also not particularly interested in this issue. Whoever it is, it will have no effect on the writers to write better, and volleyball players to play better. However, these two aspects are on the same level in the global scale, they belong to the same “class”, which is used to be characterized with the Armenian letter ‘tch’. Of course, we may recall the glorious past, and write an open letter, for example, to Chairman of the Union of Writers of Russia Valeriy Nikolayevich Ganichev reminding that still in ancient cuneiform records of Sumerians the Armenian and Russian writers were drinking vodka from one jar. But, it probably will not help: these and present situation in this and many other fields can be described in one word – uncompetitive.
The most important, of course, is this and not this or that person. However, if you look at yesterday’s ‘Facebook’ page, you may have the impression that these issues and small incidents related thereto are more important than the Karabakh problem. It is still good that Edik Militonyan and Hovik Hoveyan do not have their media, otherwise I do not imagine what terrible things would be written against those poets.
Well, whatever you say, websites and social networks have as much benefits as harm. Yesterday, approximately such title was periodically appearing in the Internet: “New details from Arthur Baghdasaryan-Gagik Tsarukyan incident.” Interestingly, what details were popping up once in every 5 minutes. Or, the reader has become so blunt that has started to believe it. I remember in 1992-94 we were totally concerned about other “details”: each of us had the map of Karabakh at home or in the workplace, with which we were watching what settlements were liberated, or, sometimes, unfortunately, were left by our soldiers. Don’t you think that we have become small-minded to some extent?
And thus I think that, generally, our uncompetitive situation is to some extent due to the fact that we give tribute to small, provincial passions. Maybe we, the media, sometimes are disorienting people. If we have huge problems in terms of global competiveness, if we do not personalize and “politicize” everything (the quotes refer to the word “policy” which is perceived in Armenia specifically), it may happen that we become more competitive in the world. Our nation has more talents, less wit.
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Aram Abrahamyan
