Two concurrent processes are occurring these days, which, at the first sight, do not have any connection, but in actuality, those are different displays of the same phenomenon. Both the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin and Antelias have refused to take part in the International Armenian summit. That is painful to hear, I would rather our priests did not make such a decision. But the reason, of course, is the tension between the church and the government today, which, probably because of “Europe’s influence”, aside from taking office, initiated rude attacks towards the Armenian Apostolic Church (obviously, I put Europe in quotes, because the church has a key role in countries such as Ireland or Poland). By the way, those attacks were also a direct way to distort the relationship with the Diaspora, taking into account the significance the Armenian Apostolic Church has for many of our compatriots.
The second process is the merger of universities, done to “improve” higher education. The educational system, beyond any doubt, needs to be reformed. But the factual dissolution of the universities does not relate to this: if you destroy the existing establishments, with all of their weaknesses, and, basically, do not create anything new instead, the situation drastically worsens. As I can understand, the reason is political (if we do not take into account the alienation of the building of Brusov State University). Imagine the members of the directive team of those universities supporting the current government and cursing the opposition on social media. Would there have been an urgent need to “reform education”?
The generals are traitors, the professors are corrupted, and the priests serve “the previous government”. This propaganda seems innocent and minor on the face of it. This is actually propaganda of ignorance, nihilism, and overall degradation. If there are no professionals, teachers, or spiritual ministers, who will come to replace them? Those, who are “loyal to the ideas of the 2018 revolution”. There were already times when knowledge was replaced with the “Proletariat instinct”. Vladimir Vysotsky has a song about this. It is about drum-beating sheep.
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Aram ABRAHAMYAN
