Harari, the false prophet

Nowadays, in order for someone to win the favor of the globalists, it is not enough to be their spokesperson, to give a series of lectures and interviews all over the world, something else is needed. The harsh criticism of Viktor Orbán became one of the conditions for entering the elite club. It won't work without it. But it's easy to run into holes here... Tamás Fricz's article was published in Magyar Nemzet

Recently, in an article in the columns of our newspaper, I dealt with one of the most popular historians of our time, Yuval Noah Harari (Transhumanism and Homo sapiens, Magyar Nemzet, October 8), or more precisely, with the presentation of his main ideas. The 46-year-old Harari is amazingly starred, giving a series of lectures and interviews all over the world. More and more people are called Prophet.

And this is nothing more than taking Viktor Orbán on his lips and harshly criticizing one of the prominent personalities and statesmen of the sovereignist and national camp, which is sharply opposed to globalism (of which there are hardly any anymore). This is slowly becoming part of the game plan of the globalists and "liberals" (what does this word mean now?), it has become one of the conditions for entering the elite club. And all those who submitted themselves to the Davos elite do this: just for example, the "prophet" on duty thirty years ago, the political scientist and philosopher Francis Fukuyama, who became infamous for the "end of history" proposition, Fareed Zakaria, the CNN's star political scientist, or, for example, the world-famous actor George Clooney, who knows everything - to pick just a few examples from the crowd, without directly mentioning politicians, because then I could write my article all day.

Well, Harari also realized that if he wants even more success, then the time has come to say a few bad words about Viktor Orbán - hoping for a further sure rise in his career, as well as praise and pats on the back from his bosses - especially Klaus Schwab. So Harari took a deep breath and spoke to Viktor Orbán.

Wish he hadn't. After his words, only the old saying comes to mind: if you had listened, you would have remained wise. It happened that our hero gave an interview - just now - to the Spanish Infobae. The reporter asked Harari about Orbán's call for the eradication of global ideology and the closing of borders to "immigrants".

Harari replied as follows, I quote in full:

"It's nonsense! If you are against things from the outside, are you against Christianity? Christianity was not created in Hungary, but in the Middle East! The Bible that Mr. Orbán loves so much was not written in Hungary, it was not written in Budapest, it was not written in Hungarian. It was written in Hebrew and Greek, mainly by Jews living in the Middle East. Does Viktor Orbán want to get rid of the Bible?"

"Similarly, we also had a pandemic, people used vaccines. According to Viktor Orbán, Hungarians should only use vaccines invented by Hungarian scientists and manufactured in Hungary? This is ridiculous. The idea that a country can shut itself off from the rest of humanity. If we had to live only with what was invented in our own country, then our life would be very, very poor and almost impossible. Of course, this does not only happen in Hungary. Think about what life would be like if we only had to eat foods that were discovered in our country, read only books that were written in our country. It would be horrible.”

This argument is so out of thin air, transparent and superficial that it can be seen from this very fact: it is nothing more than an extremely whiny attempt to fulfill the penzum: Orbán's harsh criticism. But the "Prophet" failed miserably. In fact, he issued a certificate about himself, but not a clear one, but an insufficient one.

First of all, the falsity of the argument is immediately obvious: Orbán never claimed or said the things that Harari accuses him of. Orbán spoke and always speaks about Europe and the West based on Jewish-Christian traditions, in which the Bible plays a prominent role, Orbán's Christianity is unquestionable.

Secondly, Harari is clearly lying when he gives the example that Orbán, who is supposedly aloof from all things foreign, would only want to use vaccines produced by Hungarian scientists against the pandemic. After all, everyone knows - except for him - that the Hungarian government did everything in order to obtain Russian and Chinese vaccines as soon as possible, while the highly respected union, led by the impeccably honest Ursula von der Leyen, acted all along to EU citizens can only receive mRNA vaccines from Western countries. (Now let's not get into the rampant suspicion of corruption that reeks around the SMS negotiations between our Ursula and Pfizer's leader, Albert Bourla, and in connection with which the European Public Prosecutor's Office has finally started an investigation.)

Then who was the one who avoided the products of other countries? Viktor Orbán, who has said a hundred times that it does not matter where the vaccine comes from, but that it comes and as soon as possible, or the Brussels elite, which avoided Chinese and Russian vaccines, specifically for ideological reasons? Mr. Harari, you are right, but not against Viktor Orbán, but against the European Commission led by Ursula von der Leyen!

And does the scathing Prophet know that Viktor Orbán is known to read a lot by foreign authors, so much so that he even invites important scientists to conversations, for example Harari's compatriot, Yoram Hazony, who also translated into Hungarian The Virtue of Nationalism in his work, does he stand up for the conservative and sovereignist value system against the amazing globalist views represented by Harari? In addition, we could list the numerous American or Western conservative authors with whom Orbán has already had a coffee and talked in the Carmelite monastery.

But this method - let's say it boldly - is out of character. And in general, Harari's argument in favor of not being aloof from things invented, produced, created, etc. in other countries. from values, objects and tradition, it almost borders on the ridiculous.

He claims that if a country does not open its borders to "immigrants", then it is equivalent to closing ourselves off from everything that comes from the outside. He claims that the idea that a country can cut itself off from the rest of humanity is ridiculous because it is a very, very poor and impossible thing to do. Yes, but this is a logical leap that a historian and scientist cannot afford. What does it have to do with the fact that a country closes its borders not to real refugees, but to illegal migrants, so it acts legally and protects its own country (based on international conventions!), to the fact that a country closes its doors to everything that comes from abroad? ?

Or I can turn it around to make it even clearer. Because many of us Hungarians love pizza and spaghetti, should every single person welcome ten Italians into their house or apartment? Just because we like kebabs, we don't have to want hundreds of thousands or millions of Turkish people to come to us and settle here - anyway, we already had "bitter" experiences with the latter. And even if we really like Russian vodka, we still wouldn't be happy if Russians "temporarily" invaded the country with guns on their shoulders.

I suspect the latter. And therefore, to me, it is unreliable - and dangerous! – figurine Harari. But the people he works for are also very, very dangerous figures.

The author is a political scientist and a research consultant at the Center for Fundamental Rights

Cover photo: Yuval Noah Harari (Photo: Yuval Noah Harari's Facebook page)