Zhoghovurd daily writes:
"The concept of" real Armenia's aesthetics deployment and support "is presented as a means of strengthening statehood, the establishment of aesthetic standards and the formation of the international presence. But with these high formulations behind the dangerous trend is hidden. Cultural field control and editing according to political order. It is obvious that Nikol Pashinyan's "real Armenia" has long left the ideological level and turned into practical policy.
Mount Ararat has already been removed from passport seals, and concerns the public concern that the same fate awaits the state coat of arms. Armenian history in schools was renamed "History of Armenia", actually trying to cut the continuity of the millennia of our people, and the painting of Mesrop Mashtots was replaced by QR code. Now the same approach invades the widespread sense of cultural life.
The concept states: "The development of statehood also envisages the encouragement of the aesthetic forms of expression and manifestation of the content of the Republic of Armenia."
This means that everyone should be subjected to the taste of "real Armenia", the prime minister from the theater to the festival to the festival to the festival. The story has already shown us the consequences of such experience. The "socialist realism" imposed on the USSR turned the art of the party propaganda tool. You could only create if the case served the system. Free thinkers were silenced.
Now the same logic is imported with a new packaging under the name of "Active Armenia Aesthetics". As a result, we face a dangerous reality. The state not only rewrites history and humiliates national symbols, but also tries to dictate, how should the Armenian artist think and express themselves? And when culture becomes a government decision point, it stops being free and animal and turns into a preaching product. "
Details in today's issue of "Zhoghovurd" daily.
