In our personally known world, the priority of rational thinking has never been as important as it is now.
The month-long Russian-Ukrainian fighting casts a heavy shadow on the parliamentary elections to be held next Sunday, and they "carry the show" above everything else in the media noise. However, we have a real influence on the elections, while we have little influence on the transformation of the world order. If the Hungarians do not make a rational decision on April 3, the consequences will cause incalculable damage to the country and to the vast majority who want/are forced to stay at home. Regardless of party affiliation.
Every day is war. A month ago, officially. However, we know very well that wrestling has not just started, and what we see is "only" the visual technical climax. In Europe, in our immediate neighborhood, a war is raging, a military intervention of which thousands fall victim, but the end of the spiral of damage beyond the extinction of human lives is not yet in sight. The film plays before our eyes, in the strictest sense of the word, but in the narrative battle armed with technical miracles, we often have no idea what is true and what is not.
"Silence would be good, a little easier days" - but peace is still waiting.
According to Ursula von der Leyen, "if freedom has a name, it is Ukraine". Oh holy reality, where are you going? From this freedom the oligarchs scattered at an early age , only the small-scale rich were stuck there, who are now hastily trying to leave the sinking ship with their modest appanage, such as the representative's wife who crossed the Hungarian border 10 billion forints worth of cash He didn't have hryvnias or rubles, so he filled his suitcases with dollars and euros. How many of your compatriots could have been made easier by even a fraction of this amount? Those who ran for their lives on foot, with children, the elderly, and pets in their arms. And they still run today.
Since February 24, the proud West has taken small and large steps on a daily basis to escalate the situation. Daily. It's as if they didn't want to spare a single moment to stop, rest, and give the thought a chance. A tiny chance.
In Ultrahang Hírmustra, Imre Boros was asked if the Russians had to come to an agreement only with the Ukrainians, instead of everyone from the international community having a say in the settlement of the conflict, would the solution be easier?
"If Ukraine was led by a leadership in the interest of Ukraine, this war would never have happened," came the answer.
According to Samuel P. Huntington, an American philosopher and political scientist, the condition for the mere survival of Western civilization is to be able to accept the enforcement of its interests in a multi-civilizational world order. The illusion that other civilizations - Chinese, Buddhist, Orthodox Christian, Hindu, Islamic, African - will adopt Western values (not to be confused with modernization!) not only makes the peaceful settlement of conflicts between civilizations impossible, but also so that the West can maintain its uniqueness. Mainstream politics and media's empty and practically worthless words - LGBTQ rights, racism, rule of law - also do not help the Western societies to see clearly and to understand the Huntington paradigm.
The average Western citizen approaches everything indiscriminately and on an emotional basis, even those questions and situations that threaten his life, or at least his standard of living. He forgot how to think rationally, because he was made to believe that history is over, so he doesn't need any more serious mental effort than deciding what phone to buy, which restaurant to eat or order from, and where to go on vacation, ski, or have fun.
According to Robert C. Castel, the biggest threat to the security of the West is not the deliberate atrophy of the armed forces, not the cessation of armaments, not the lack of qualified specialists, but the unpreparedness and inexperience of the public in matters related to war.
“It's one thing to scream in front of the White House in a pink muskie hat. Or sticking to the asphalt, because the air conditioner is rattling on Gréta's private plane. Or toppling statues of systemic racism. Or to decry with denominators in the gender major. However, it is a completely different thing to besiege governments at the same level of sanity by saying that we are already passing the Mig-29s to Ukraine. Or close the country's airspace with our air force. Or send troops against the Russians.
Because the climate doesn't shoot back. And neither is systemic, toxic masculinity. The Russians, on the other hand, can certainly shoot back.
This time, it is not a make-believe crisis invented by bored intellectuals in order to replace their desk with a bigger one. This is a real crisis, the stakes of which could be a conventional European or even a world war with nuclear weapons.
There is a specific tariff for flaunting virtue this time, and it is measured in kilotons.”
The Russian-Ukrainian war supersedes everything that the beautiful souls cling to. The king says naked, sometimes surprising things, but the truth slipped out of his mouth on Monday, when he said at the Business Roundtable's quarterly meeting of CEOs that
"there will be a new world order out there and we must lead it, uniting the rest of the free world in it."
The goals are clear, we know what the Russian side wants, as well as what the United States wants. The question is whether the European Union will be able to represent its own interests in this pincer, and whether it will be able to optimally reconcile its real possibilities with its real capabilities beyond loud declarations.
But an even more pressing question is whether the majority of Hungarians will be able to make a calm, rational decision about our common future next Sunday, will they be able to choose security and quiet construction instead of the colorful coalition of politicians, adventurers and running fools?
Featured image: Source: Facebook / Dr. András Csaba Dézsi
