EXILED WRITERS EXIST Because of Collective Moral Treason
After a lifelong process of learning from the tribes I lived among, I discovered that morality is not a filthy concept, but may be defined academically in the rams of subjects like ethics, esthetics, and justice. This was not unknown to my Armenian surroundings back in the 90s, both in the motherland and Diaspora. It has become less known nowadays because of the process and current fact of Armenian majorities’ becoming refugees all over the world again, like after 1915.
The new thing I discovered was that the moral or public moral norms are not different from tribe to tribe, irrespective of religion, race, continent, geography, color, shape, height and weight…
For example in the case of exiled or persecuted writers:
In many tribes, no one ever discusses the quality of the work of a writer or a journalist, when it becomes known that the latter was subjected to persecution, or even worse, was exiled. He or she, the writer, may be even unknown, but almost everybody will start to bark… And that is the wonderful thing with freedom of speech: it defends not only you personally, but all others too. And also, vice versa…
There are tribes where people judge the quality of the work instead, many without reading even a single line, or may be by reading a couple of lines, the most nasty piercing or incriminating ones which were pointed out to the public out of malice; and that would be enough…
For me this is the excuse for treason to a moral principal, which is, to immediately defend a writer or a journalist; and also is a self-defense on the unconscious level, from the excruciating awareness of personal worthlessness, defenselessness, and despondency as an individual and also as a nation…
My personal opinion about executed or exiled writers, no matter what and how they write:
If a writer has succeeded to be a pain in the ass of the ruling cliques for some time, no matter in what country, whether in a democracy or a dictatorship, he must have been a damn good one, because he was fulfilling the chief duty of a writer: to be a pain in the ass of the ruling elite.
I love you all,
Vahe Avetyan
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