In this past year, all our difficulties have been revealed in their fullness. Everything that settled in the Carpathian basin was with us for a thousand years.
Perhaps next year we will have to fight the battles of Bratislava, Muhi, Mohács and Schwechat at the same time. And we have to win, so that we don't find ourselves at Gorlice, Isonzó, at the Don bend again. And again at the will of others, for the benefit of others. This is a history-shaping period, no doubt. Almost everyone feels it. And even if he doesn't articulate it, he feels some uneasiness. We trust and hope that the above-mentioned battles will no longer have to be fought with weapons, but with reason, arguments, faith, and passion. And the arenas of the battles will be meeting rooms, polling stations, sanctuaries of culture and science, not trenches.
Analysts see the situation darkly. They always see it darkly. But they always leave a small window for optimism: there will be something to analyze tomorrow. "The situation is serious, but there is a small ray of light. Tragedy happened, but not fatal. Terrible things have happened, but war is avoidable. War was inevitable, but escalation was preventable. Escalation has followed, but we can stay out/we are on the good side”, etc. This has been the case since the newspapers published analyses, i.e. since the genre has existed. This is understandable, since it is about nothing more than the will to live. It is very boring to repeat with Spengler for a hundred years that Europe, the "West" will surely perish. "Look, Oswald was right," grim brothers crouch, "the world is coming to an end." Will be over. It's not over yet, in fact many people live very well, but it's almost good to shudder that we ourselves are destroying civilization! This is something! Especially if we survive in our well-fortified residence.
It may be true that everything is the opposite of what we thought. The first is always the crisis of thinking, and only then is the crisis of the material world. What else would it prove that the West, which had reached unimaginable heights of prosperity, began to systematically eliminate itself.
Eliminate your own security, standard of living, and culture. This is a new development, and it is radically opposed to Marxist explanations. After all, the West was very good at handling economic (financial) crises, and I think it will be able to handle them for a long time to come. But the thinking crisis challenges your worldview, your relationship with yourself and other people, your worldview. I know that this idea is radically opposed to material and economics-based theories, but I still like it. It's nice, because we can ultimately redirect our thinking back to the soul, and if we succeed in this, we will definitely have won the case. And why wouldn't it succeed? This has happened several times here in the West. Our soul descended from Olympus to the valleys and at the same time moved up with Jesus to the proximity of the Creator. We understood that the Earth is not the center of the universe, we understood that evolution is a reality, and with that we also understood that there was and still is room for us to develop in our great arrogance. We also understood something about the relationship between consciousness and subconsciousness, and in addition to these, many important things. So we can also understand that the right thought - affecting from soul to soul - is sufficient in itself to improve and even define our destiny. Thought is the influence that determines actions. Of course, this also increases our responsibility.
Not because we have to choose between West and East. We made this decision a long time ago. We are not part of the West, but the West itself. This is the law. Saint Stephen's Law. Another question is what the various parts of the West, which are stronger and more developed than us, are destined for us. They would have liked to have made it a province in the German-Roman Empire, but that was avoided. Then the Viennese emperors and lords were also happy to treat us this way, and even though we fought against it just enough, it stayed that way for a long time. And recently, since terribly incompetent figures in Brussels have been vying to be the presidents and leaders of the United Europe - even if Europe is destroyed in this - we are again experiencing a similar mentality. And this is no longer just a mentality, this is the crisis of thinking itself.
We have always visited the East a lot. The Tatars-Mongols came from there, the Turks came, the Russians-Soviets came. It all cost us a lot.
We know that you have to be good with them - trade, cooperate - but you have to keep them away from Buda. The muhi battle must be fought. The message of which is that not a single "Tatar" can reach the Sajó. Because then it will be too late. Distraction, dilettantism, bad luck - they are all great luxuries, we cannot afford them. The battle of Mohács must be fought. The message of which is to prevent it from reaching the Danube. Because then it's too late. Lust for glory, arrogance, inexperience - all great luxuries. And it is even greater to trust the allies who trample the rules of our alliance with their feet every day. We are not always late: they are late on purpose, like hyenas. Or they throw us into the ground to absorb the blow with our body. Therefore, we may have to fight our revolutions as well. We cannot let go of forty-eight and fifty-six.
These are no longer political choices, but moral issues. Just as it makes no sense to argue whether we belong in the West or the East, it is also meaningless to contrast Europeanness or Hungarianness. We want to be more Hungarian in the spirit of European culture (idea). We lived in the spirit of European culture in Pest during the Turkish occupation, we did not become Turks or Muslims. And in the same way, we lived in the spirit and culture of Europe during the Soviet occupation. We didn't become Russians, nor did we become Slavs, but at least we weren't even communists. (Whoever got it, don't tell us to be European anymore.)
We see the difficulties. We see that they always wanted to make us believe, or at least force us, that progress must happen against us. What's new now is that despite themselves.
And that makes the situation more dangerous. It took strength and great abilities to make progress not against us, but for us. King István and his followers endured this. Maybe the majority didn't even understand what was happening. Maybe there are corners in our souls where the sounds of the steppes, the chanting of the táltos and the screeching of the turuls can still be heard. But we took the step necessary to stay. And we stubbornly resisted any "progress" that wanted our destruction. The unified German-speaking empire was also called progress, and the unified English-speaking European empire was also called progress. But what a great progress they called the Soviet Empire, and the Ottomans must have said the same about their invention. All of them would have had their own consequences, and there would have been the liquidation of Hungarians. The destruction of Hungarian culture. Only if we were destroyed as a nation would we be able to live on as individuals. As a vulnerable crowd. Don't leave a family either, because that is also unnecessary. Helots who are not protected by any law, not protected by their nation, their country. You can live like this. To work, to eat, even to love, if it is not forbidden. Then they settle many, many unfortunate people from somewhere in Africa next to us, sooner or later we would run out of food, water, and air. "It's already not enough!" They would limit private property and consumption, meticulously regulate all areas of life, and all this in the name of progress.
These are all consequences of the crisis of thinking. All the problems of the West could be solved by transforming the way of thinking.
Migration, energy, environmental protection, war, inflation, terrorism: everything. I know and believe that a shift towards spiritual influences and common sense will happen in Europe. Not even in the very distant future. Maybe next year. Violent opposition will be the answer. Offense, fist-shaking, mobilization. They will point fingers at us, but this should not discourage us: our thinking is clear, quiet, and simple. Nothing special, just moral sovereignty, i.e. freedom and life.
Featured image: Viktor Krĉ
