Five Things We Would Like To See Disappear From The World In 2022

  1. At the moment, thank God, we are not in the midst of an election. So we can afford their measured consumption. Too frequent publication of surveys ("We asked what would happen if Gantz joins up with the National Religious Party (Hamafdal, now a long gone party), Ale Yarok (pro-legalization of cannabis, long gone as well), two sheep and one Belgian Shepard. The results may surprise you. After the commercials") and afterward their interpretation with a "D-Day" look is no more than a way to milk by force headlines on 'news-dry' days. Spare us, please.

 

  1. Photographs of politicians preparing meals for Shabbat. Forget the mullet; take your hands off the Nile perch. How long will they be used cynically, reluctantly, as a symbol of everything authentic, popular, and connected to grandma's old traditional kitchen, in stark contrast to you know who. There is nothing more unauthentic than a clumsy attempt to be authentic. And we beg you, if you go through with it, at least remember to first turn on the gas fire?

 

  1. Righteous Quarrels The life cycle of a "storm" is growing ever-shorter. During the days when print had not yet lost its strength, media storms held tight for about 24-36 hours. The morning headline, follow-up until noon on the morning radio talk shows, television follow-up from the afternoon broadcasts until the primetime evening newscast, and then even more headlines in the style of "our storm caused a storm" in the next day's morning newspapers. Today, thanks to the availability of the smartphone in which each of us is entitled (and maybe feels obligated) to shout out his/her opinion, storms break out, reach a deafening volume and disappear several times a day. It is a competition of rolling eyeballs and cries of anguish from those shocked, protesting, demanding an investigation/resignation/whipping/stoning – and now, immediately. The quarrelsome ones compete mercilessly for our attention and beg that we 'share' or 'retweet.'The social media networks elevate us to a "look at me" atmosphere. It is true when we strive to showcase photographs of a perfect life. It is also true to showing that our holy wrath is more exquisite than that of our friends. "I can't hear you with all this noise everywhere," Yehuda Amichai wrote. I wish that he was correct in this case.

 

  1. The philosophical current of thought that unfortunately has taken hold in Israeli society, according to which no matter where a debate begins, it always ends with "Nazis!", a yellow Star of David, and Holocaust images.

 

  1. Holy Balance. Once and for all, if X is seated in a studio, you do not have to plant someone next to X-minus. it is like in math, the result of this is zero. At least from the level of 'so-called' journalism. What is less zero here is the normalization of extreme positions and the blurring of the boundaries between "this is how I want to think" and empirical truth. There is no balance here when a scientist equals a conspirator, rather destruction.