Not long ago, I came across a comment under one of my YouTube videos. I’ll quote it exactly: «չաչալ կեղտ քռչոխլի ռոբ պապատ ոնցա?»
If we try to decode these “hieroglyphs,” it seems the commenter is a fan of the current prime minister, dislikes me for not being a Pashinyan supporter, and therefore assumes I must be following the orders of Armenia’s second president, Robert Kocharyan.
I see this kind of “logic” online nearly every day. And from its frequency, This line of thinking seems to dominate: opposition to Pashinyan automatically means allegiance to Kocharyan.
What’s especially interesting is that the video in question had nothing to do with Pashinyan, politics, or any political figure at all. It was about Vladimir Nabokov’s brilliant novel The Defense — a work of literature.
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So, how should one respond to such comments?
You might say: ignore them.
And personally, I am neither offended nor have I ever felt compelled to defend myself. But I believe there is a deeper social issue at play.
Over the past 10 to 15 years, we’ve seen a sharp decline in educational standards — one of the main culprits being the Internet. More precisely, the ease of expressing oneself publicly and the possibility of earning approval without any intellectual effort.
So, we should not get angry. We should not mock. We must respond with patience — and more importantly, with education.
Not education in the Pashinyan sense. By that definition, the author of the YouTube comment is already “educated.”
I mean education in the spirit of the Madras group, the Mekhitarist Order, Khachatur Abovyan, and the most enlightened minds of our nation — before and after them.
To educate without counting the hours, without expecting recognition or gratitude.
As the Apostle Paul wrote:
“Avoid foolish and ignorant debates, knowing that they produce strife. The Lord’s servant must not quarrel but must be gentle to all, able to teach, patient, in humility correcting those who are in opposition — if God perhaps will grant them repentance, so they may know the truth.” (2 Timothy 2:23–25)
Aram ABRAHAMYAN
