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Despite all our problems,
despite all our difficulties,
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Hungary is a stable country,
and Hungary is a country
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that is appreciated in the world,
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envied by our neighbours, and we
ourselves are bitterly critical.
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Maybe this is okay.
What makes one think in this country,
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in the midst of criticism,
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is not criticism of this government,
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criticising us,
unjustly or truthfully,
rather, the question is
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why negativity is so widespread.
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Why does negativity has a louder voice?
A single people, a single nation,
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cannot rise from the abyss,
cannot rise from the abyss if
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negativity becomes its guiding idea.
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Imre Madách in his famous The tragedy of Man,
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recognising the great
lessons of universal history
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as a tremendous sage,
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realized that man must move forward,
trust and struggle
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and that when he led Adam
through the history of mankind,
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beside the voice of the Lord,
Imre Madách placed Lucifer's figure in
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the midst of great lessons of faith.
Why? Because Imre Madách
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knew yes and no was inseparable
from one another.
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He knew denial was necessary
in order to move me forward.
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We need denial to be critical,
we need denial to warn us
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but he did not create the
figure of Lucifer in his work
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so that denial should be the guiding
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idea and especially not for
so many little dwarf Lucifers
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to speak in this country,
and for the dwarf Lucifers to
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own this country who negate all the time.
Madách Imre’s The Tragedy of Man
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as József Katona’s Bánk Bán,
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is a great shaper of
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Hungarian national thinking.
It is well noted that this
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duality is both yes and no,
is a part of history and our lives,
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but it is not possible to build and
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move a country forward
only with negation, doubt, denial.
