According to Gyurcsany, Hungary has become an infected place and there is a problem with that too.
Ferenc Gyurcsány started another thought, but this time, exceptionally, he did not wake up to the idea of saying something stupid about Viktor Orbán. Today there is a problem with intellectuals, who bear no responsibility, they just laugh at politicians. Interestingly, he also writes that there is no such thing as an intellectual. And here comes another puzzling thought from Fleto's pen on Friday morning.
He begins his blog post by saying that even those who say nothing about politics have an opinion about it, they just never think about it, because that is an opinion too. Then he explains that there is no politics without intellectuals, and that, coming from a family without culture, he wanted to be one of them. Then comes the harsh criticism:
They are crazy smart. I will never be like that again.
They are disappointingly cowardly. Although there are brave ones.
Narcissists who present themselves, or not, as responsible public teachers, or whatever you want to say.
There is no such thing as an intellectual, there is such and such.
So, on the one hand, he wanted to be one of them, and on the other hand, they didn't even exist. His next sentence strikes back at the previous one, because he writes:
I have a disagreement with a group of intellectuals.
So they are. Then comes the big explanation:
With those who, simply because they excel in their profession and whose name resonates well with the wider public, think, appear and claim to be the people who say things even in the realm of the universe called politics, without the precision expected and required in their profession to express an opinion.
I'm sorry, but why would a famous actor's opinion be more honest than that of my acquaintance who works as a day laborer in Koch?
However, the main criticism of them is that unlike politicians,
Intellectuals in the public eye have never taken responsibility for anything.
Continue:
A few dozen intellectuals from Pest (Buda) want to define politics in a self-effacing way without taking any responsibility for their current position and the consequences thereof, apart from the fact that they are mocking us politicians in their circles.
Hungary has become an infected place.
With a bit of self-criticism, he describes that there is a problem with the politicians, including himself, but they bear responsibility. Although we on the left have hardly seen such a thing, since they bear no responsibility for 2006, or for the country's debt, or for the near-bankrupt state of the capital, even the Greek affair has remained without consequences.
Finally, he asks his followers if they remember that an intellectual promised to write him the consequences of his statements.
Source: Facebook, photo: Balázs Hatlaczki/PestiSrácok.hu
