“If you do that, we will subject you to a public censure.” That threat and its implementation always induce a complaint in me, moreover, regardless of whether the target of the “censure” is chosen correctly or not, forasmuch as we have an issue of a development of an independent, not ordinary mentality. To evoke fear of being mass attacked if expressing any opinion or doing any step in a human, especially young people, means to make them complicated, to make them hide their thoughts or gradually fit in the dominant standard of mentality. Not all have strength to resist “public censure”, many hide in their shells or become “like everyone”.
The latest classical example is the armed attack on the police station. If you reject to characterize it as a “heroic uprising”, the “public censure” is ready. The ones who are for the unarmed, peaceful political struggle appear in the place of a target. People fear that “censure”, do not want to be labeled “people’s enemy”, that is why they remain silent. In the result, as they say, “majority rules”.
At school, perhaps when I was at my 7th or 8th class, I told at some point: “it seems to me…”, the teacher interrupted me with a strict tone, saying: “it cannot seem anything to you personally, firstly finish your school then speak for yourself personally.” Now, when I have finished my school since ling ago, I can let myself say – no one needs to be threatened with public censure. Lately, for example, the encouragers of “Armenian genes” have voiced such threat to “Media Center” for the intention of displaying the disputable film.
Generally, the opinions expressed by those “encouragers” are ridiculous. On Sunday Yerevan Color Run took place, during which the young people throw colors on each other. But inasmuch as it sounds in English as “Yerevan Color run, color (“color”, “colorful”)”, the word was associated with the colors of rainbow, and the latter with LGBT community flag and it appeared that the marathon does not fit within the frameworks of the “Armenian genes”. It is good that it did not manage to bring forth “public censure”.
German philosopher and psychologist Erich Fromm writes: “Is it compulsory for the independence and freedom to be identified with isolation and fear? Or is a positive freedom possible in which the person exists as an independent person, not an isolated, but jointly with the world, other people and nature? I think this question can be given a positive answer.” Yes, I forgot, Fromm was a Jew, and according to the theory of “Armenian genes”, Jewish people are bad people, they have organized the Armenian Genocide, consequently, whatever they do is all wrong.
ARAM ABRAHAMYAN
