Index – Domestic – Cabin Revolution, Air War, Cultural Struggle

If life is a constant battlefield, then it must also be defeated and sacrificed.

The opposition would torpedo multiple bills, would declare war against corruption and against democracy like an attack appreciates the government he occupied the public media. The opposition to a total fire in response, the government does not air withdrawal, only according to critics they shoot blind, to me double edged swordand will blow backwards. The principles front uncertain voters a War declaration in the middle between two fires Has been.

We have dealt before with public speaking drawn from the world of elite sports, today the vocabulary of combat and war is on the table.

No need to look for many examples

We made one revolution, one third constitutional revolution. (2019, Viktor Orbán)

Was taken hostage Budapest (2006, Ferenc Gyurcsány)

Viktor Orban took him hostage the Hungarians (2020, Gyurcsány)

In a war on two fronts Somos (2020, Orbán, referring to migration and epidemic)

Our teams they are in a fight (2012, Orbán on the EU budget debate)

We must go back to the elections battlefield. (…) Excellent battle waiting for us in 2022. (2020, Orbán)

First battle we won (June 2020, Orbán)

Orbán’s government in asylum chapter In Brussels (2017, Jobbik)

The analysts actually soldiers. Thought too weapon. (2015, Gábor G. Fodor)

Commander in chief Sir! (2006, open letter from András Bencsik to the Prime Minister)

It is memorable that in September 2013 it was direct

Despite the traditionally bloodless genre of public service consumption:

And of course this

This is not a Hungarian feature, but we can easily find foreign examples. The United States and China are waging trade wars and ceasefires. The presidents of the United States have also announced a fight

• against crime,
• against drugs
• in addition, the fight against Christmas advertisers.

United States President Lyndon B. Johnson declared war on poverty and misery in 1964, a long time ago. It has become a permanent war to this day.

The dangers of a constant Cold War

One of the founders of metaphor research, George Lakoff according to:

So the duel of words or the war of declarations is actually a stylized, more civilized, and harmless form of physical shock in which we can defeat ourselves without anyone being physically hurt. It can be seen that we search the physical fighting dictionary even when we feel someone is using their words. broken US

So this is one of the deepest unspoken cultural schemes of our civilization. This is how our mind organizes experiences and rations reactions. That is, language has to do with the surface, the set of the mind articulated and guided by metaphors, from where our actions will follow.

However, we don’t have to fully put up with the old knights who continually play army. Not for various reasons:

• The exaggerated militant language neglects the heroism of those who actually risked / sacrificed their lives in actual wars.
• A speech like this can not only replace but also lead to physical violence. (The title of the most infamous hate book of the 20th century: Harcom.)
• While combat rhetoric is undoubtedly adequate to dismiss the audience, it must also be seen that the enemy to be defeated or persuaded is usually the audience itself.
• The imagined enemy is mainly internal, one of ours. So in the true sense of the word, he can never be defeated because he remains with us.
• To paraphrase the same in a more cynical way: in a rhetorical fight against a fictional enemy, at any moment we can invent successes on the battlefield, not a theorem, only a few sentences are needed.

The most important objection, however, is that if there could be such an easy war at any time,