September 28, 2020
And Yet… Why Are We Romanians So Enamoured of the Foreign? So Xenophile and So Romanophobe?
Why does the fact of not being a Romanian citizen, or of not having Romanian origins, confer an advantage *ab initio* in any electoral or non-electoral competition? Why Clotilde? why Fritz? why Thuma? or why Iohannis, why Orban, why Hellvig, why Siegfried? Whence this perverse voluptuousness of the majority in choosing people who not only fail to feel with you, the elector, but who also deeply despise you, as most Germans, Frenchmen and Westerners in general do? Why is “a country like abroad” the national project of Romania; or why, although we are neither the poorest nor the most oppressed, do we have the largest exodus of population after a country at war such as Syria?
Why?!?
Is it the effect of the “information revolution” and of “social media” upon the young or less young generations; is it the political consequence of this world of Glam and silicone in which we wish to copy anything and anybody merely to hide the void in our minds and our souls?
Or is it that after ’90 the new generations were educated politically correctly by those schooled at the Soros foundations for an “open society”, where we were told that what we are and how we are is wrong and that we must copy certain imported models?
Or perhaps the cause comes from further back, from the pre-“revolutionary” years, when in the ’80s we, the children of that time, made idols of Hollywood heroes and ornaments of Coca-Cola cans?
Or perhaps from further back still… from the ’60s and ’70s, when our then dissident intelligentsia (become today “right-wing”) was educated in the most progressive and leftist spirit of the Marxist universities of the West, in the ideology of the “Frankfurt School”?
Is it the mimicry and the frenchified airs of the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century (which I. L. Caragiale mocked)?
Was it a foretoken of the sad destiny of this nation that we gladly accepted in 1866 a foreign dynasty — probably the least harmful of the choices listed here?
Or perhaps all this was prepared even before 1848, when our youth were educated in the “spirit of change” and of Western “enlightenment”, in the spirit of revolution and of the casting off of traditions and origins.
And perhaps the poisoned thorn of our humiliation and servility comes from further off still: from the hundreds of years in which we were serfs and vassals of foreigners, of foreign masters — whether Romans, Turks, Hungarians, Poles, Russians or, more recently, Americans, Germans, French, Austrians, Dutchmen… in short, almost anybody passing through and demanding earth and water from these parts.
I know these questions will trouble many. That is what I want! To take you out of the psychic comfort of your virtual world in which the supreme aim is a telephone with a larger screen, a holiday “abroad” and a new German car… and out of the illusion that by taking foreign masters you will obtain them more easily!
Wake up! And if you must copy foreigners, copy their pride, their arrogance or even their xenophobia, their greed for the national interest, their desire to dominate and to have slaves — such as you are!
Or perhaps simply be as we Romanians have been for hundreds of years: excessively hospitable and humble.
But not slaves and not abject!
#BeProud!
#BeNoSlaves!
#CoalitionForTheNation.
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