Internationalist Writer

Calming Global Fears

Globalism levels. Internationalism unites.

Democracy drives America. Crearivity fuels democracy

Globalism is a scary word. It brings up images of giant corporations bulldozing forests and killing fish with oil spills.

Internationalism calms those fears. It highlights national identies of the world’s 200 countries and draws similaries between wide-ranging cultures. It makes friends among the spectrum of global societies from commerce and politics to local community action. It promotes cooperation to make a workable world Internationalism does all that by fostering creativity, the lifeblood of civilization itself.

Hungarian-American Fogarassy is a writer whose creativity in life is the subject of her work, In fiction and nonfiction she writes in the classical sense of searching for the truth and telling it the best she can. After a lifetime of harrowing scrapes, she knows that trust is the gold standard for human relations, which calls for the wisdom of experience now in short supply.

Technology has been a great blessing for efficiency. It is now destroying the human factors that form the basis of trust. Internationalism looks for ways to build the connection.

The wisdom of Fogarassy’s experience comes mostly from trial and error..Born in Hungary, she changed countries three times at a formative age when her family fled from Communism after the heroic revolt against the Soviets that failed. Ukraine now fighting Russia to prevent a return to that ugly past is gripping to Fogarassy. But Ukraine’s courage and tenacity in fighting injustice are well familiar to her. It reflects her attitude toward having her work recognized in the great land of opportunity.

“I hate to write but I love to have written,” have said many writers including the oft-quoted anonymous. Writing a novel is a torturous experience. Success at the end when you know you could have done better.

Still, you know the completed novel is good based on your compare and contrast experience. When the work finds no home because it doesn’t fit with prelaid plans, you begin the next even better book. That is the same process Ukraine now undergoes in its fight for recognition of its integrity. It is the process that all evolving entities, whether individual or national, go through in order to be better than they were.

Ukraine’s courage in resisting oppression has united allies across the Atlantic and beyond in Australia, South Korea and Japan. That alliance came together and stays that way under America’s lead. Perhaps it is a reminder of America’s own courage in fighting for freedom 250 years ago, a fight that continues in concert with the world after a near coup almost toppled democracy.

Like swing states in the election preceding the attempted coup, swing countries in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and South America await the outcome of the Russian invasion. America’s engagement is crucial for the future of democracy and creative freedom that young people the world over seem determined to demand

All of Fogarassy’s book length works deal with aspects of the international experince. From the glitz of Trump Tower to the majesty of the United Nations, she has worked independently within ironclad rigors. To her. the destrction in Somalia was little different from that in post-war Eastern Europe where Russian Soviets were in charge rather than Americans with their Marshall Plan. Those in turn were very similar to the ruin of Gary Indiana after abandonment.

In all those works, whether fact or fiction in form, people in all their glory of contradictions play the central role. Beyond culture and circumstance, all people to her are a stage for a duel between beauty and the beast, ready for the freedom to gallop with others the world over.

Light of a Destiny Dark, for example, is a real life novel about life in Hungary during WWII and under Soviet Communism. It is a portrait of the dark period when Eastern Europe was behind the Iron Curtain. While much has been written about the Holocaust for self-evident reasons, little is known about how people in general dealt with air raids, bombs and starvation followed by Soviet class rotations and purges. The novel puts the kibbosh on the Putin view thaat the end of the Soviet era was a great tragedy.

The way to avoid a repeat of such a tragedy is outlined in The Midas Maze, a fun novel about the United Nations global web personized through an American writer married to a Chilean diplomat. Bureacracy is the lead character, as it is in her nonfiction memoir about the intervention in Somalia, Mission Improbable, the world community on a UN Compound in Somalia.

To Fogarassy, bureaucracy is the bane of growth, its necessary evil to be tamed. The drop-out alternative stars as the main character in Mix Bender, a Magic Mountain-themed novel in which Mix is trapped on a Caribbean island paradise. Written before the latest climate disasters for small islands around the world, the novel shows the liberating effect of culture in small islands now pleading to be saved. .

In short, bread lines, stern schooling, missing parents and sudden tanks in the town square may all be wholly alien to Americans, but so are the experince of helping hands delivering cartons of American cheese with chocolate on the side for kids

America is a grand country finding its way in a global world. Internationalism is one path for getting there.

Like people, countries work better when their value is recognized. That recognition starts at home, extends to the community and goes as far as it can and wants beyond national borders. Those who’ve made the jouney will attest to its satisfactions however far they’ve gone.