Political scientist Hakob Badalyan writes:
There is no point in proving to anyone that the people of Artsakh fought.
Because people who talk about “not fighting” do so either simply with some calculations and intention, or simply under a propaganda dose.
And the dose is such that it is impossible to change it with arguments and even facts. That dose actually has a very thick and dense composition.
Therefore, in my opinion, the primary task of society in this case is not to convince some circle or people that the people of Artsakh fought, struggled.
I think that we generally have a problem of values, moral thinking, value guidelines, and the scale of virtue. The topic of the people of Artsakh is one of the manifestations of that problem, only one, perhaps one of the most sensitive and painful, but one.
And the manifestations are many, the layers are many, the decay, the corrosion is deep.
Therefore, There is no point in explaining or convincing anyone, proving that the people of Artsakh fought and struggled. Those for whom this is a potentially meaningful action have not needed it for a long time, in any sense even by nature. And for those for whom this need has been and still "is", there is no point in explaining or proving it, because it is a consequence of the problem I have already described above, not ignorance, lack of information.
How to solve the main problem - the problem of values, moral thinking, value guidelines, the scale of virtue - this is truly the most difficult question.
This is essentially a problem of the public intellectual elite, of the strata, but, unfortunately, in a significant part of these strata, despite the presence of intellect, there is also a rather personalized and emotionalized narrow-mindedness, seasoned with an excessive dose of narcissism and self-esteem, a self-serving conviction of the bearer of the truth of the highest instance. And this also leads to the fact that even in intellectual circles, “tribalism” is the current everyday life.
Naturally, this is not about an absolute picture, but a broadly dominant one.
