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Rachya Arzumanyan's article "Anomie" is devoted to an analysis of the profound crisis of Armenian statehood and society connected with the loss of the capacity to distinguish moral and value-based boundaries, and is examined as one of the most acute threats to the national existence of Ashkhar.

Introduction and Methodology

The author builds his argument around the concept of a "frame" — an integral system of principles, metrics, and hierarchies of values through which a people comprehends its own existence in time. Several levels of time are distinguished (civilizational, political, event-based), yet all of them exist within the framework of a people's single time. The formation and maintenance of the frame has traditionally been entrusted to the spiritual and creative elite — poets, philosophers, ascetics — whose work remains unnoticed as long as society is healthy.

Key Thesis: Anomie as a Social Disease

The central thesis of the article is a diagnosis of anomie — a condition in which society loses the ability to distinguish the permissible from the impermissible, the moral from the immoral. The author emphasizes that:

anomie manifests itself not as a deficit of information, but as a loss of the ability to discern boundaries;
the consequence is "devastation in the minds" and systemic disorientation of the people;
state and social institutions are formally preserved but stripped of real meaning;
the erosion of the norm leads to the inevitable decay of society, regardless of the external efficiency of its structures.

Symptoms of Anomie in Armenian Society

As illustration, the author analyzes several emblematic events:

the refusal of the Armenian parliament to recognize the genocide of the Pontic Greeks and Assyrians, which is interpreted as a violation of the axiom of the people's existence connected with the Mets Yeghern;
the conduct of the Armenian delegation at the "Euronest" forum in Baku, where insulting statements by the Azerbaijani side did not receive an adequate political response;
the passivity of Armenian diplomacy amid escalation on the border, in which military successes are not converted into political capital.

Arzumanyan points out that Armenian authorities systematically fail to distinguish the line between the axioms of national existence and current political expediency, which makes them vulnerable to informational and symbolic attacks by the adversary.

Deepening Fault Lines

The final part of the article examines the expansion of internal dividing lines — property-based, geographic, cultural — as well as the growing rift between the Republic of Armenia and the Spyurk. It is noted that the ruling elite orients itself predominantly toward the opinion of external centers of power rather than the trust of its own people, which deprives the Armenian nation of the resource of unity in critical situations.

Conclusion

The key conclusion of the article is that the erosion of internal spiritual and value-based boundaries inevitably leads to the erosion of state borders, and the inability of Armenian statehood to rely on the axioms of the people's existence and the trust of the Armenian nation places the very existence of the nation at risk amid the geopolitical confrontation of the 21st century.