Majority of our people like ‘Rabiz’ music: people drinking a couple of glass begin to cry when the words in the song is about unmet love, or jump up and begin to dance, when everything in the romantic front is successful. I do not share the taste of the majority of the people and, vice versa, I believe that it is my duty not to be enraptured, let’s say, with Spitak Hayko, but to advocate for more high-quality music by acting against universal taste.
Majority of our people are afraid that the Turks would attack and destroy us, and therefore they believe that we should live forever under “Russian’s shade.” I do not share this fear and trust, moreover, I am trying to convince people that it is impossible to live in such complexes and prejudices for decades. Of course, it would be more beneficial for me to address blasphemy and swagger to the ‘age-old foe’.
Majority of our people liked when PANM broke the head of Chairman of the Supreme Council Hrant Voskanyan, when Albert Baghdasaryan was threatening Levon Ter-Petrosyan by “Romanian version” (execute by shooting), when Garnik Isagulyan was suggesting to hand the authorities, when NDU members knocked down the gates of the National Assembly and attacked the leadership of the Assembly, when Shant (whose sincerity, by the way, I do not suspect) was threatening to seize the government buildings, and organized marches with sticks and stun grenades. People like all of this for the simple reason that during these 22 years and before, the authorities displayed themselves very negatively; it is extremely corrupt and scabrous that the above-mentioned (as well as many other not listed) manifestations “cools down the hearts” of people, maybe it also discharges the negative energy.
I do not like all of these, because the borderline is not obvious to me that there is exists between “just revolt” and hooliganism, calls for violence and even terrorism. Nairi Hunanyan was also “correct saying” that the authorities are sucking the blood of the people, and that the elections are not held in Armenia because of him, wasn’t he? Maybe he lost his nerves and not seeing legitimate forms of struggle, he committed murdering. Don’t you see the cause-effect relation of aggressive rhetoric, threats of reckoning, “innocent actions”, and, on the other hand, this terrorism and also new possible terrorism. So, here, I also prefer “not to appeal to people’s liking” and warn of the consequences that the infinite populism of our social and political figures could lead to. Plus, of course, inadequate behavior of the authorities to the situation.
Read also
Most of the people also like me to ask me in the street, “And when it is going to be good?” I obviously do not like this question, too.
ARAM ABRAHAMYAN
