Ferenc Mádl on the moral decline of consumer society

In view of the global crisis former Hungarian President Ferenc Mádl calls in the conservative intellectual weekly Nagyítás on people to focus once more on Christian values: "In the past decades we witnessed a slow erosion of traditional European values. ... The breeding ground of this moral decline is consumer society, or in other words affluent society - where morals play only a minor role. Western civilisation as a whole has plunged into a crisis, whereby it is less economic misery that worries people than the fact that within a short period of time an unsustainable social system has emerged. … The general decline affects not only individuals and communities but also politics, culture and the economy. … It is high time for change. I believe that reviving those Christian principles that worked well for two thousand years would be a solution to our civilisation's problems. … The principles enshrined in the Ten Commands and the Europe's traditional moral values would be a good way to get our world back on track."  

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