The prevailing American way of thinking today is dominated by questions of the creation and distribution of wealth, and it is a big question whether the American political system will be capable of a real national strategic change that puts family and virtues at the center instead of mere wealth and resource distribution games - said János Csák, cultural and Minister of Innovation at a conference in Budapest on Friday.
The minister shared his thoughts at a panel discussion on the importance of European-American intellectual and cultural connections at the conference "Conservative Minds - The Legacy of Ottó Habsburg and Other Conservative Thinkers from a Transatlantic Perspective" organized at the National Public Service University (NKE).
He explained: American ideals, freedom, equality before the law and justice embody the most beautiful ambitions of life on earth, "without the intellectual phenomenon and spiritual legacy of the American genius, the world would be worse and poorer."
He believed that, in addition to the appeal of the American genius in itself, what is happening in the United States is also important for us as Europeans.
"The film about the future of Europe is currently taking place in the United States, the script and dramaturgy were written by European thinkers for thousands of years," he said.
He drew attention to:
the virtues necessary for the ideas that characterize the American genius can only be cultivated by care, education, the space of education, the family, here they learn the rules of the community, the virtues, respect, authority, hierarchy, truth, love, fairness.
We cannot know what the future will bring, whether the American political system and elite will be able to make a real national strategic change that puts family and virtues at the center instead of mere wealth and resource distribution games, said the minister.
According to János Csák
"for every inhabitant of the world, the success of the American experiment of order liberty is vitally important".
He added that competent and moral leaders can dynamize even a weak organization and bring it to success, while corrupt leaders can destroy well-functioning organizations.
Gergely Prőhle, the director of the Habsburg Ottó Foundation and the NKE Strategic Studies Institute, spoke in his opening speech about how Ottó Habsburg was a kind of network builder of conservative thinking, one of the most important centers of the network.
He added: he thinks it is important that we do not perceive the United States and the transatlantic relationship as a kind of threat, as a "raised ideological finger", but rather try to think of the transatlantic relationship as an exchange of ideas and learn about the influences that came from Europe on American thinking.
According to the organizers, the purpose of the conference is to show how European ideas and aspirations across the Atlantic inspired American political thinking and practice, and how American ideas reshaped the contours of Europe's conservative politics.
Géza Jeszenszky, former foreign minister, Réka Szemerkényi, former secretary of state, former ambassador, Jeffrey O. Nelson, executive director of the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal, Andrew Bremberg, president of The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, and Edwin J. Feu will speak at the event.
Source and full article: Magyar Hírlap
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