Naira Zohrabyan on the Incident of Yesterday: 'Tomorrow, they will Stage Kama Sutra by the Same Logic'

The member of the Armenian National Assembly from the Prosperous Armenia faction, Naira Zohrabyan, writes on her Facebook page: 'This madness and degradation will continue as long as the majority of society remains silent. Yesterday, I was following the experimental reading of so-called futuristic poetry that, as one of the main actors of that 'performance', Hasmik Khachunts, secretary of the 'My Step' faction of Yerevan City Council, described as the 'voice of the future of futuristic poetry in the past, coming to proclaim the presence of the artist.' You understood, right? Naturally, no. Even as a professional theater scholar who clearly distinguishes art from degradation, madness, hallucinations, and pathological sublimations of sick individuals, I understood nothing.

Yesterday, in the territory of the Republic Metro, a 'futuristic madness' staged with the permission of the city council I learned about from my friend Vahagn Khacheryan’s post, and by the time I returned to Yerevan from Amulsar, the 'high art' staging had concluded.

It is understandable that there may be people in society with unhealthy perceptions. I am not interested in them as long as they do not publicly display their sick and pathological instincts. Tomorrow, I wouldn’t be surprised if Kama Sutra is staged in front of the government building, and a segment of the 'intellectuals'—unfortunately, my decency does not allow me to use the hard 'r' in 'intellectual' in their case—will claim it is high art and advise us, the ignorant, to visit the Taj Mahal.

This is a disaster, and this disaster needs to be prevented sooner rather than later. Unfortunately, the majority of society is silent, and this silence is the greatest carte blanche for the sick, the anti-national garbage, and the promoters of degradation under a specially designed program.

And let no 'free-spirited' artist dare say that what happened yesterday at the Republic Metro entrances was art and has the right to exist. I already said it: by the same logic, tomorrow, in the public squares and in front of your children's educational institutions, such 'free-spirited artists' will stage Kama Sutra, and your children will have to witness and experience that 'high art.'