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To answer this lighter question for the spring holidays, I ought to have taken some holiday time to watch more Hungarian television. But I can state confidently that the winner here is Barátok közt (“Among Friends”), a sitcom created by an Australian company about a group of people who do not speak Hungarian and do not live here at all.
There are so many common problems in the world that cannot be solved. Famine is one of the worst epidemics. It is a real planetary emergency, yet who really seems to care? AIDS is another one. Has it brought rich and poor nations together one inch? Terrorism is not simply a planetary emergency but a threat to life in every corner of this planet. It should have brought together everyone who does not exercise it. Yet instead, a number of the richest countries started a few wars that became the worst international conflict of the 21st century.
It always matters (a bit) who the elected politicians are, as they have the power to shape the future of any country. The problem is that their capabilities are limited because of two obstacles. The first is the limited number of years they can rule. It is hard to find a politician who would bother to act on trends that cannot be changed successfully within his/her 4-5 year term.
What a strange concept, to picture any country holding tangible high-value “cards.” If there was a deck, the United States – the strongest country in the world – would hold most of them. Yet the U.S. still proves unable to really solve anything.
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