Although there are legends about the intellect of the Armenian people, however that doesn’t bother the Republic to stay without a national anthem at least temporarily or, as some presses write, have a transitional anthem. I have talked about the writing a new anthem a couple of times and I don’t want to repeat what I’ve said in my previous articles, but I can’t resist the temptation and not say that there is no prerequisite for having a national anthem in Armenia.
Nothing has changed and nothing will change even after the upcoming parliamentary elections. But this is a different topic and I will discuss that after the Armenian Christmas and New Years’ vacation when I come to the final conclusion that the words recited or written on paper in the Homeland are only seen and heard by the given person’s close friends and don’t really change public opinion.
I don’t really think that this article that I am writing will have an impact on the opinion of the world on Armenia’s intellect because that opinion is not formed by the world presses, but rather the “HyeLur” (Armenian News) workers. They form opinions so much that the president of the Republic of Armenia will soon be forced to consider the Armenian historian “Movses Khorenatsi” medal unsatisfactory, refer to the Armenian authors of one of the Schumer scripts, come up with a new name for the medal, which will then be given to the Armenian journalists who consistently follow up on Armenian society and make misinterpretations.
Now picture me as an average Danish (I say average so that you won’t mistake me with prince Hamlet). I’m the average Danish and, believing in the legends about the Armenian intellect, I come to the newly independent country, which is considered to be the “cradle of humanity” and suddenly find out that the country doesn’t have a national anthem nor has some temporary song, which substitutes for the song which will be written in the future. What will happen to me? It’s hard to describe. What kinds of feelings will I have-compassion, remorse, maybe jealousy, that a country with hundreds of members of composer and writers’ unions can’t come up with an anthem for one year and then praises the legends about the Armenian intellect?
Envy, yes envy will eat the European that I am alive because the efforts made by the Danish and other neighboring countries have made to become civilized and develop, at least during the past two centuries, will all pass by like waste, just like the millenniums that have come by and passed in front of the eyes of the foreign nations.
But that’s not all. I, the average European, will feel envious when I see the machetes of “monuments” to be installed in the Republic Square where Lenin’s statue used to be standing. “Damn, how were these Armenians able to spread all those legends about their intellect when a country with hundreds of artists and sculptors don’t understand that you shouldn’t install too many monuments in the republic square, can’t come up with an idea and install the statue of some proletariat leader?”
I will feel even more envious when talking about the Karabakh conflict and suddenly finding out that a politician raised in the West says that Karabakh doesn’t need precedents and that Karabakh is going to become the precedent for everyone. I won’t have too many doubts after this and will think that the political mind that has been formed in these regions over the centuries is capable of making the impossible possible, but then I’ll go back to one of the sayings of the Armenian legends: “Istanbul must become a sea of blood”.
And after seeing that Istanbul hasn’t changed its aggregated situation in the century following the creation of the anthem, I will immediately understand that the politician’s words, claiming that Karabakh will become a precedent, will soon become poetry for the intellectual level of society. “Karabakh will become a precedent, battles will begin from all sides, in fact.” This will become the next reason for me feeling more envy because despite the fact that I have traveled abroad several times, I have not yet seen a country where folk lore and politics, folk lore and economy, folk lore and culture and other things are this harmonious and intimate.
Thank God that this stupid story of the Danish was like a dream, I’m not Danish, despite the fact that some things written by Armenian presses remind us of the behavior of the Denmark prince with no outlook: “Time is out of its boundaries” “To be or not to be”, etc., which don’t tear the hearts of the Armenians watching soap operas and shows to pieces. In this case, the news about the legend of the Armenian intellect becomes similar to the words spoken to Hamlet about his father’s ghost.
P.S. I ask the reader living in Armenia not to take this article as the criticism of “Hamlet” played at the Dramatic Theatre recently.