HIV infection/AIDS”, posed a terrible threat to humankind. The panic

foto: nino ZanZava. - gia Wanturia mopiketeebTan. Photo: Nino Dzandzava - Gia Chanturia with protesters
`norCebs~ gulisxmobs, xolo danarCenebi, gansakuTrebiT
xandazmuli qalebi, unda `mokla~, raTa
axalgazrdebiT dasaxlebul kunZuls, anu televizias,
suli STabero; `es televizia cocxalia.
Cveni pirveli amocana iyo beberi qali mogvekla,
romelTanac asocirdeboda es televizia...~
xelisuflebis favoritTagan, cxadia, saxelmwifo
moxelis qsenofobia aravis gauprotestebia.
sazogadoebis nawili ki axmaurda, ayvirda, magram
kuluarulad da ara _ organizebulad!
amas pirveli arxis mesveurTa Tavis marTleba
mohyva: Cven gamokvleva CavatareT da respodentTa
umravlesobam sazogadoebrivi mauwyebeli moxuc
qals Seadarao.
hoi, saocrebav! sazogadoebam giTxraT, televizia
moxuc qals hgavso da ara _ moxuci qali
unda moklaTo!
iqneb saqarTvelos moqalaqeebs `qalis~ tansacmeli
anu aparatura da studiebi ar moswonT?
iqneb, Tanamedrove kulturuli, socialuri da
politikuri cxovrebis asaxvis simwireze miganiSnaT,
ris gamoc teleeTeri bebiebis mier mravaljer
moyolil, moyirWebul zRapars emsgavseba.
am sakiTxebze rom gefiqraT, maSin mixvdebodiT,
rom `axlis~ Sesaqmnelad `Zveli~ ki ar unda `mokla~,
aramed am ori ukiduresobis Tanaarseboba
unda asaxo. aseT SemTxvevaSi televizia socializmze
damynul patriarqats ki ar daemsgavseba,
aramed _ realur cxovrebas, sadac socialurad
sustebi da Zlierebi, religiuri da eTnikuri
jgufebi, kulturuli da politikuri erTobebi
Tanaarseboben. ai, es aris saintereso da es zrdis
sociumSi tolerantobis xarisxs, romelic Turme,
misi warmomadgenlis ganmartebiT, pirveli arxis
prioriteti ar aris.
unda gamogitydeT da giTxraT, rom giorgi Wanturias
azrebis wakiTxvis Semdeg pirveli, vinc
of receiving such gifts. And if anyone ever counts me
among the “chosen” and pays tribute to me in such a
way, let them know I will make them wish they were
never born!
While those elite turkeys were boiling in the pots
of the “best part of the nation”, the Public Broadcaster’s
general producer and deputy director-general,
Giorgi Chanturia, was preparing a special gift for
us: phrases “full of love and sympathy for Georgian
citizens” in which he refers to disabled persons as
“cripples” and homosexuals as “pederasts”. It seems
that this young man thinks that tolerance means
simply shouts of friendliness and brotherliness and
that “revitalizing” public TV means staffing it with
little boys and girls. He’s convinced that adding “life”
to the channel means employing only young people
and “killing” the rest, especially older women in order
to breath “life” into the island of youth that is the TV
station. “This TV station is alive. Our main task was to
kill the old woman that the station was associated
with,” he said in the interview.
Yet no-one from the government expressed protest
over this official’s xenophobia. Some members
of society were up in arms, but they only said things
in private and failed to organize!
The channel’s management was quick to justify
this comment, saying: we did a study and found that
the majority of respondents compared the Public
Broadcaster to an old woman.
Well, how about that! The public told you that the
station was like an old woman – they didn’t tell you
to kill the old woman!
Perhaps the public didn’t like the “women’s clothing”,
i.e. the equipment and studios? Perhaps they
were referring to the lack of programming that reflects
modern cultural, social and political life, which
is why the channel’s shows have come to resemble a
tired and worn-out old fairytale told over and over by
grandmothers.
Had they thought about these issues, they would
have realized that in order to create something “new”,
one shouldn’t “kill” what is old, rather one should depict
the coexistence of both extremes. In such case,
the TV will not become a patriarchy twinned with socialism,
but rather real life, where the socially weak
and the strong, various ethnic and religious groups,
cultural and political groupings live alongside each
other. This is interesting and it increases the level of
tolerance in society; yet this is apparently not a prior-
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