It is worth identifying what is causing today's "difficult times" and what is the strength of Donald Trump and Viktor Orbán. Written by László Bogár.
There is a "rhyme" about why world empires collapse in four generations, or roughly a century. The cycle starts with hard times, and these hard times produce strong leaders. In the second phase, strong leaders create a golden age. In the third phase, the people of the golden age (actually, of course, rather the elites!) become comfortable and trust themselves. In the fourth phase, this hubris and the over-dimensioned, less and less grounded sense of mission bring difficult times, during which everything collapses and everything can start over.
Everyone agrees that the world is in a difficult situation today, the only difference is that everyone looks for and finds the deepest causes of difficult times elsewhere.
In other words, the people on both sides of the emerging front line mutually blame each other for the problems, and believe that the "other" side is made up of - to be fair - fools and/or villains.
From which it would logically follow that the whole world consists of fools and/or villains, which fortunately cannot be empirically verified for now, but with persistent work, the world is heading towards this total chaos.
The mainstream global media commenting on the meeting between Viktor Orbán and Donald Trump considers both of them to be "strong leaders", which, in their reading, is of course a negative quality that evokes the ultimate threat to liberal democracy. But it is worth returning to the logic of the four-phase rhyme cited in the introduction to identify what is causing today's "difficult times" and what is the real strength of Donald Trump and Viktor Orbán.
As we have already said many times, the main reason for today's "difficult times" is that the American global empire has reached the fourth phase, the end of its century, and the fourth generation of elites has already become "degenerate", so unless "something" happens, then the empire collapses just as its predecessors collapsed.
This in itself is a very big drama, but the situation is aggravated by the fact that this not only ends the American century, but also the last five to six hundred years of the modern West.
However, the main threat is that, at least until recently, it was only possible to talk about it in the "language" of the narrative mode of the opinion power machine of the global media serving the empire.
However, this apologetic meta-language tries to convince humanity that the problem is not with the American empire, nor with westernized modernity, because the world order based on the combination of liberal democracy plus free market economy is the best of all existing worlds.
According to them, the problem lies with those who attack this "wonderful" world order, that is, with the "strong leaders" portrayed by Donald Trump and Viktor Orbán, so they are the biggest threat to this democratic world today.
So this is on the "chattering surface" of the eddies of the global war of narratives, but what is "deep down" and, just as interesting, what connects these two people as an "odd couple"?
Let's face it, it's quite bizarre that a "liaison" of such a relaxed nature, prone to breaking all existing verbal taboos and capable of overturning all existing verbal taboos, should be created between the former and future supreme ruler of the currently ruling world empire and the leader of an "Eastern European small state" (István Bibó). The deepest reason is that both of them are aware of what an impossibly difficult and dangerous task they have undertaken, and that the main difficulty of this task is the unspeakability of the real situation.
Although some main elements can be named (e.g. the issue of migration, identity and peace), the deepest point is that behind (under, above, etc.) the spectacular and historically deep collapse of the American empire, and indeed of the entire West, are under tension , which are still unspeakable.
And they are unspeakable because the global reality industry today stores all of humanity in cages of false reality.
For the time being, even those in whom the suspicion is already maturing that the threat to humanity is much greater and deeper than anyone could assume. And contrary to the prevailing narrative, the way of life that celebrates itself as a liberal democracy and free market economy is actually a hidden global dictatorship that could bring about the collapse of all human existence.
It is completely understandable that the leading personality of the empire that is currently defining the world, but is collapsing, is trying to do everything to make all of this talkable to the people of the nation-state that is the foundation of the empire, but how and why can such a "small Eastern European state" play such a decisive role in this? its leader, like Hungary?
The answer to this legitimate question shows with touching depth that a "small state" in the material and physical sense can extend far beyond the limits of its physical dimension in the spiritual, moral, and spiritual sense.
It is simply that today for the entire West, at least for those who want to break free from the cages of false realities,
Viktor Orbán's way of telling is the only narrative capable of revealing the deepest essence.
Tucker Carlson's interview with Viktor Orbán, which was watched by a hundred million, also made it clear that the "empire-selecting superpower" placed Viktor Orbán and his narrative under its own protection, and that this symbolic power "status" is unattainable for all Western leaders. For Trump, too, for now. This was the basis for his invitation, a "strong leader" can only be a holder of this status.
Cover photo: Prime Minister Viktor Orbán (b) and former US President Donald Trump, Republican presidential candidate, before their meeting at Trump's Florida residence in Mar-a-Lago on March 8, 2024.
Source: MTI/Prime Minister's Press Office/Zoltán Fischer
