From the construction of the nation-state to the birth of men.

News 1: A Swedish state-owned company asked its employees to prefer Happy Holidays during the holiday season. they use the phrase Merry Christmas! instead, writes the Swedish newspaper Samnyt. The SSAB steel company wrote to its employees in an internal letter at the beginning of December that "as the winter holidays approach, it is customary to wish everyone a Merry Christmas. However, this season is rich in celebrations of different cultures and religions. To be able to mention several holidays, let's say pleasant holidays."

 News 2: "At the Christmas market in Magdeburg, a car drove into the crowd. According to MDR Sachsen-Anhalt, government spokesman Matthias Schuppe confirmed the fact of the attack," Bild wrote . “The horrors began at 7:04 p.m. The vehicle used to commit the crime was reportedly a dark BMW and may have been driven by an Arab terrorist, believed to be from Saudi Arabia. The driver was arrested immediately after the incident. Eighty injuries and 11 deaths were also reported during the attack."

Are the two news related?

As closely as possible.

This is what a society of self-abnegation and stupidity gets.

The mental illness of "winter holidays" is not a Swedish mental illness, the mental illness of "wir schaffen das" is not a German mental illness. The whole West is like that.

Self-abandonment, stupidity, softening, loss of tradition and value, a banana stuck to a wall as a work of art - this is the West. This became the West. Even the ancient Greeks knew exactly where this was going. Odysseus' ship was swept away by a storm to the land of the Lotophagos. They were the lotus eaters. A very nice, friendly, helpful, not to mention welcoming people, whose favorite food was lotus. This was offered to the guests, who, as soon as they ate it, lost their memory, no longer knew who they were, became numb, stupid, saliva dribbled down their face, and wanted nothing more than to sit and eat.

Isn't that familiar?

And this tradition, this myth, also appears among the Arabs, in the tales of the Thousand and One Nights, in Sinbad's fourth journey: "We saw a house in the distance. We headed towards it and stopped at the entrance. And behold, a group of naked men rushed out of the house, seized me without a word, and dragged me before their king. We sat down at the king's command. They put some kind of unknown food in front of us, we had never seen anything like it in our lives. My companions tasted it, I was disgusted by it, I didn't touch it. It was by the goodness of Allah that it happened: because that's how I stayed alive. For my companions, as soon as they had eaten, lost their minds from the food, and, like the deranged, they only stuffed their bellies and grew out of their old selves. Then the natives gave them coconut oil to drink and rubbed them with it. And as soon as they had drunk of the oil, they rolled their eyes and began to eat in a way that they had not been used to before."

It's all for nothing. The West became a lotus eater. He has forgotten everything, he is not interested in anything, self-abandonment, lack of past and future, the abandonment of Christian tradition and ancient heritage - and a banana stuck to the wall. This is what is left of our dreams…

The full article in Magyar Nemzet .

Cover image: MTI/Szilárd Koszticsák