Anna Hakobyan published a video on her Facebook page and wrote:
"To all my educated-developed friends, who not only do not say a single "sweet" word in favor of the book reading campaign, but also lead a "cultural counter-campaign", please read the text below, the author of which I will not name, because he is a collective figure, and realize that you are part of the same team as him, it's just that your arguments and motivations are different.
"Reading a book is of course a good thing. But how detached and unconnected a person should be from this life, let's say we have 4 more children, leaving the pain and pain of the earth and saying that I manage to read a book a week. According to Anna Hakobyan, we flew from Yerevan to Abu-Dhabi and read a book.
Dear Armenian women with 4 or 3 children, do you manage to read a book? Do you leave the daily routine of your home, work, household problems, the child and other tasks? To read a book. So idle and indifferent? There is no image of a strong Armenian woman among them. Their nerves are disconnected. Human instinct. You see, even Ceausescu's wife managed to read a book." Dear compatriots who have joined the "Education is Fashionable" movement, there are 15,000 of you, and today I need your active support. None of my initiatives and campaigns met with so much resistance and had such a difficult course as the "one month = one book read" campaign.
I look forward to your help today and in this very matter. Detective, romance, poetry, fantasy... it doesn't matter what. choose one and join the campaign by publishing the progress and completion of the reading. And if, according to our agreement, each of us "infects" ten more people, the number of active and demonstrative readers will reach 150 thousand, then 300 thousand, then 500 thousand, then one million, then 2 million, then 2 million 500 thousand. Իսկ հետո…հետո երկրի դարդուցավով տառապողները կշարունակեն տառապել, որովհետև դա կմնա առավելագույնը, որ նրանք կարող են անել։ Unless, of course, they suddenly decide to join the campaign in the end. There is no compromise with ignorance.
P.S.
In the video, I received a great blessing in the monastery of St. Lazar Island, when I was allowed to bow my single rose to the grave of Mkhitar Sebastasi the Great. At that moment, when I got there and was so close to him, I asked the teacher to impart wisdom to me, to us, my people. Now we are close to meeting him in the afterlife.
