The reason for the tension surrounding Western civilization is that these societies are not going through an era of rising, but of stagnation, or possibly going down, said Balázs Orbán, the Parliamentary and Strategic State Secretary of the Prime Minister's Office and the chairman of the board of trustees of the Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) at a book launch in Budapest on Tuesday.
Praising Andreas Rödder's book Konservatív 21.0 – The program of bourgeois Germany, published by MCC Press, the state secretary said: all opinion makers agree that these societies are performing worse, but certainly not better, than before.
He added: this leads to polarization, since when a person sees that things are going in the wrong direction, he tries more and more desperately to give an appropriate answer to the situation.
Balázs Orbán noted: it is precisely at this point that the proposals of the two political camps diverge, as the leftists and liberals see the basic principles and approaches that make our culture successful as outdated, while the rightists insist on, for example, the Judeo-Christian tradition, the traditional family model, the nation-state, to capitalism, to a society based on work.
He said that, according to the conservatives, the problem arises precisely from the abandonment of these values, which is why they must be rediscovered, since by strengthening the value system, "we, Western civilization, will be the winners of the 21st century."
Source: demokrata.hu
Featured image: Balázs Orbán, Parliamentary and Strategic State Secretary of the Prime Minister's Office, President of the Mathias Corvinus Collegium Foundation, German historian Andreas Rödder, professor at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz and Zoltán Szalai, Director General of the Mathias Corvinus Collegium (bj) Andreas Rödder Conservative 21.0 – the civil At the presentation of his book entitled Germany's Program, published in Hungarian, in the building of the General Guard, in the Buda Castle on July 27, 2021./source: demokrata.hu
