Given the hype surrounding the opening of the Olympics, I decided to belatedly watch the “problematic” episode. I have great respect for the Christians and Muslims who found offense in that performance.
However, I did not see any hint of Leonardo’s “Last Supper” in the image of the blue Dionysus and the celebration dedicated to him. In my opinion, the compositional structure and the movements of the actors did not resemble Christ and the apostles at all.
But in general, such “performances,” like some from the last “Eurovision,” leave a heavy impression on me. There is a “disconnected” leveling, relativism in those performances, which, yes, is trendy today, but I absolutely do not like it.
What am I talking about? For me, there is a clear hierarchy: top and bottom, heaven and earth, immortal and mortal, sacred and mundane, beautiful and ugly, good and evil, decent people and robbers, talents and mediocrity, etc. Modern, extreme leftist thinking puts a sign of equality among all these and calls for infinite “correctness,” which does not differentiate between these phenomena.
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For me, a woman is a woman, a man is a man. A person must have a father and a mother. Marriage is between women and men. Of course, there are millions of people in the world and in Armenia who think differently, and I respect them.
However, let me tell you what danger I see here. If any identity is rejected, if everything is considered a social construct, then, if this principle is consistently applied, my fellow citizens could come to the conclusion that it does not matter whether they are Armenian or not. Or whether they live in Armenia or Azerbaijan.
I already see some signs of this in our society. And maybe it wouldn’t be bad if Turkey and Azerbaijan thought exactly the same way.
Aram Abrahamyan
