"Fact" daily writes:
In any society, it is accepted that at least the intelligentsia has a certain independence, self-reliance, breadth of mind. In any case, those who are considered intellectuals must have certain standards of living and public behavior, "red lines", some taboos, at least within themselves.
Otherwise, the circumstances that distinguish them disappear. Naturally, it is not the case that in the previous periods in the life of our country, if you will, "in the old days", everything was in its place in terms of the same intelligentsia. Some of them preferred state awards, titles, in some cases, to get some kind of position, in short, to break the "comfort zone" and sit comfortably in that corner, and so that they would not be "touched", no one would demand anything from them.
By the way, it is a joke of fate, and maybe it is also a pattern, that some "observables" who appeared in quite comfortable conditions during the "former" times, today speak about those times in the most violent terms. However, the conscious part of our society can somehow still endure it. After all, such manifestations are not observed for the first time.
But what is and is happening now is simply disgusting. Repulses and brings a feeling of regret mixed with surprise. No, really, the fundamentally disfiguring, disfiguring metamorphosis, the deformation to which a number of so-called intellectuals have undergone under the conditions and perhaps also the demands of Nikol Pashinyan and his masked government, really leaves the impression of a mental "Chernobyl".
Not only are there not a few people who flatter the government, pamper Pashinyan and his related persons, bow down and shake hands, often wearing a smiley face mask, but they also do all this in the most cheap, low-level ways, provoking the public, disrespecting public opinion, and insulting people's national dignity and intelligence. Unfortunately, you don't have to go far for examples. Suddenly, someone, probably imagining himself as a high-ranking "Karabas-Barabas", announces that the archbishop of the Armenian Apostolic Church, who was convicted of a crime, should be flogged or reprimanded. To make wooden.
How they punish those who violate sharia laws in Iran. In other words, the person who is probably considered an intellectual among the locals, who is the head of a whole cultural hearth, announces through the official propaganda that the Armenian clergyman should be publicly flogged. Is this normal or abnormal? And isn't it the same abnormality that while acting as a "believer" in the ranks of the government, there is not enough at least half a person to rebuke such an "intellectual" or "what are you saying, you are embarrassing us..."? On the contrary, they rejoice and applaud. Yes, he says: I made a joke, I made a joke. No one doubts that any ordinary citizen would have been put in prison long ago for making such a "joke", if that "joke" was about the government and specifically the head of the CP. Another, the head of a no less large cultural center, rushes to defend his brother, declaring that during the Pashinyan attack on the Mother Church, his relative did nothing wrong, and the marble tombstone of the 106th Catholicos of All Armenians, Alexander the First, was trampled in order to... breathe air, ventilate. What air to breathe?
Who are you getting? And does the person who says such a thing consider himself a serious person? In other words, someone who, with his anti-social, if not to say, obvious hooligan behavior coupled with vandalism, caused a heart attack to one of the respected clergymen of our church, Rev. Vrtanes, was that way... ventilated?
That they go to the graves of the dead, do they "ventilate" in the same way? OK, where have you come in your downfall? At the moment of these reflections, one more hop, the official information of Pashinyan's Ministry of Finance appears in the news saying that "Hayk Harutyunyan, Secretary General of the RA Ministry of Finance, and Karen Durgaryan, Director of the National Academic Theater of Opera and Ballet named after Alexander Spendiaryan, have signed a memorandum of cooperation." In fact, "cooperation" was given. Pashinyan received the incitement to attack the Mother Cathedral and jump on the tombstone of one of the Catholicos. Okay, is everything about money, is it "cooperation", is it "me for you, you for me"? It is good that the country will not exist tomorrow due to the efforts of Nikol Pashinyan, what will you do? Or do you think that you will take some form to Russia or America, you will hold your head in a certain way, you will "stick" a case, aren't you "free-spirited"?
Although, with this "cooperative" type, everything or almost everything is simpler than simple. having lost their value orientations, having folded their conscience and shame and thrown it into a deep hole, only aiming to keep their skin and it in a warm place. The other group is the "solidarity silencers". What is it? Have they had a stroke? Are they afraid that the fake masses will make them the target of hatred on social networks, whatever you say, they will say. Maybe "they don't do zahla" or, yes, "they don't engage in politics" (although the discussed issues and phenomena have long been out of the purely political dimension and have become issues of nationwide significance, security significance).
