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Preach water, drink wine – this is how you can recognize the real folk heroes.
The realization that there is a gap between the ideal and reality is neither particularly new nor particularly surprising. Immanuel Kant already knew that nothing straight can be done with the crooked wood of human nature. In order to navigate the tension between affirmation and reality, everyone, unless they are holy, needs a good measure of cognitive dissonance.
However, what the Hungarian MEP József Szájer has achieved in this regard is such an exquisite mendacity that you have to remove your hat: the co-author of the Hungarian constitution and the intimate of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who curtailed sexual self-expression in his land native, was caught in an illegal orgy in Brussels, with drugs in his backpack.
Szájer’s moral concepts would probably break the skull of an inexperienced common man. Yet they can be found in a weaker form among many of his national populist fellow students: defenders of the Catholic faith who look the other way when the pastor attacks children; Patriots who criticize the dirty EU at home, but have led their herds to dryness on the Côte d’Azur; Representatives of the little man with the big Rolex on his wrist: you must recognize them for their hypocrisy.
(“Die Presse”, print edition, December 3, 2020)
