Politika, szex, történelem
Politics, Sex, History

Summary/Abstract: We could even have a good laugh if only the whole thing wasn’t so sad. It was a little bit entertaining when our parliamentary history writers reached the peak of their potential and announced in one big leap, as they say, that history was not at all as complicated as we naïve professionals would imagine because everything was as straightforward as a picnic. Especially if the issue on the menu is not class struggle but merely the enemies of the nation, who are as easy to identify without fail as is the said picnic. Max Frisch, the excellent Swiss author, notes in his autobiographical sketches that, simply put, politics is usually taken up by those (and he has men in mind, of course) who have given up on sex. That is, Frisch probably means that for them, politics is a substitute for sex. Let us not dwell on the fact that Frisch did not consider banalities such as the role of money in politics, and conclude that while no one has ever provided any practical or statistical proof of the assumption, it does not appear to be entirely irrelevant in the assessment of political activity. A case in point is when the very cornerstones of society are at stake. It is not very surprising if under tense circumstances of that kind some people are hit by a cerebrovascular accident before their time and eventually become unfit to practice our profession – although not in the manner the erudite Swiss describes.[…]

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