Carping, Complacency and Collusion in the Carpathian Basement

There really does seem to be something unique in the blend of carping, complacency and collusion in the Carpathian Basin. If it’s not in the genes (as hyperbolically hypothesized by the Kossuth-prize winning novelist Akos Kertesz — for which he then had to seek asylum in Canada at age 80), maybe it’s in the drinking water?