It seems like a small thing, and of course - apparently - it is. Walking around, he considered Budapest to be one of the most civil and right-wing, XII. at the district Christmas market, Jingle Bells suddenly rang.
I started humming to myself and didn't even get to the end of the first line when it occurred to me: why am I not hearing a Christmas song sung in Hungarian? Why can't I hear "Angel from Heaven", "Little Christmas, Big Christmas", "Shepherds, Shepherds" and the rest and the rest... Many CDs were made of these in the last decade, I wonder why they didn't put one of them up for a better fate my worthy fellow for your player?
I wonder what Jingle Bells is telling us, so early in the 21st century? Who even knows what it's about? To be honest, I wasn't aware of it either, but I found it online. The title of the song refers to the kind of bell that was tied around the necks of the horses on horse-drawn sledges so that the sleds traveling opposite each other would not collide. The snow absorbed the noise of the sledges and horses, so it would not have been possible to notice the other sledge coming in time without the jingling of the bells. That is, in the United States, in Medford, Massachusetts, where there is a plaque on the house at 19 High Street stating that the song was born in that house in 1850.
I have no problem with this song, in fact, I really like it. From Bing Crosby, through Louis Armstrong to the Beatles, it has been covered by countless world stars. In fact, Jingle Bells was the first song to be broadcast from space to Earth. On December 16, 1965, it was performed on accordion by the crew of the Gemini-6 spacecraft.
It still saddened me that I had to hear this at "our" Christmas market.
Sometimes I feel that we are completely defenseless in the globalizing world and we can hardly do anything. One Hungarian film has to be "begged" into the cinema networks operated by mostly foreign owners, we have no right to say what kind of films Netflix, whose headquarters is in the Netherlands, bombards the younger generation with, and we can't influence them in any way. what the global tech companies (Facebook, Google/Youtube, etc.) allow or prohibit for us, the Hungarian consumers of news.
We would need some kind of angelic "spark", divine intervention, but definitely a strong political will to move away from this state at least a little next year.
