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The Degeneration of the Nation

Sex with the State of Israel

So this is Israel's afterlife: Since I have no physical existence, I neither eat nor drink, neither sleep nor dream, but become a pure political animal, a pure and innocent soul of the Israeli person - my spirit lives only from election to election and from news broadcast to news broadcast, without all the unnecessary filler in between

By: The Eternal Jew

Viewing the Future from the Grave (Source)

I dreamed I was terminally ill, all the doctors and rabbis had given up hope, and I'm praying in bed to God: Please, Lord, give me more time - I want to know what happened in the end with Bibi. And God indeed can no longer intervene for me physically, because with modern science there's always a chance a scientist will check the atoms and discover a deviation from Newton's laws or something like that - and that's not done, but He can certainly intervene in spirit. Because although everyone at the funeral thought they had finally gotten rid of me, like any good ultra-Orthodox Jew - I continue to vote after my death.

And precisely because my identity is so blurred behind the circle, and no one can tell the difference between this black and another black anyway, death only upgrades my right to vote, and my ID card becomes a tradable currency. One day I vote for one local authority, another day in the primaries for another party, a third day for the labor union and on the fourth - for the building committee, you can go with me from polling station to polling station and vote again and again, sometimes for conflicting candidates, and I'm really enjoying that it's precisely after my death that I had a renaissance. Who would have thought this is what paradise looks like. It turns out there is life after death - political life! Let all the secular heretics eat their hats.

And finally I understand what God meant by what they told me about the grave: "All Israel has a portion in the World to Come" - as it is said, "Your people are all righteous". So this is Israel's afterlife: Since I have no physical existence, I neither eat nor drink, neither sleep nor dream, but become a pure political animal, a pure and innocent soul of the Israeli person - my spirit lives only from election to election and from news broadcast to news broadcast, without all the unnecessary filler in between. Aristotle was right! The essence of man is the political, and now only what's important remains, and this is what was hidden behind all of God's promises. Thus a Jewish soul can yearn for eternal life - politics continues even after us, and as a political entity I continue to wander throughout history, into the future, much faster than when I lived all the unnecessary life around it:

And at first it always looks the same. Although parties rise and fall, and I watch with pleasure how what was once an eternal ruling party doesn't pass the electoral threshold, and how the old right becomes the new right and the new left becomes the old left, but everyone is always essentially in the same role-playing game on the same eternal scale of right and left and center and extremists (plus or minus those who don't count anyway - Arabs and ultra-Orthodox). But then slowly progress brings change to the ancient division. Because even the living people in our country no longer live in the country - but in virtuality. And they too begin to skip going to the bathroom and all kinds of unnecessary bodily activities, and become pure political entities - holy souls. As it is said: Your people are all righteous!

The physical expression - the material, the inferior - of man is gradually replaced by the spiritual, ideological, higher expression: what the holy soul has to say about politics. And since there is no longer a body, then the expression of the physical is only in elections. Because after a few dozen election cycles in which gender politics reigns supreme, and after we've always been taught that what's important is right versus left, we finally discover what's really important: men versus women. After all, a person simply votes according to their tribe, expressing their identity, and what's more basic to your identity than sex? Women are the first to be the smart ones who rebel against the entire patriarchal structure of the old hierarchies, and now that there is no right and left - women establish the Women's Party, instead of the left. And men watch the spectacle in horror, because it's known that 51% of the population is always women, and they will never win elections despite being half the population, but they have no choice and they establish the Men's Party, instead of the right.

And the political commentators are moved to tears: these elections represent the dawn of a new day. A new order has risen on the stage of history. And after I was already completely despairing of the circular political masquerade ball, I almost jump in my grave with excitement from the excitement of the broadcasters: once in a lifetime (I mean, oops, in death) there is real change in the world. Maybe we'll even move from patriarchy to matriarchy! It turns out that history doesn't just repeat itself in circles, but there really is a future, finally new politics, clean, clear, without games. Head to head: the two sexes.

But pretty quickly it turns out that it's not enough. Because even within men and women there are splits. In no time women are fighting among themselves, and an extreme left party is established - the Lesbian Party, and against it an extreme right party - the Gay Party. And there's also the Trans Party that always chooses to run despite never passing the electoral threshold (because its representatives defect to the other side), and other vote-wasters like the Asexuals, the Pansexuals, or the Androgynous and Tumtum [Translator's note: Talmudic terms for individuals of indeterminate sex] Unity Party, and all kinds of quirky queer parties that you need to be an intellectual to understand why they're running and what they want. And the frustration with the situation between the sexes and the binary division of the stuck political system causes the rise of the Bisexual Party, which tries to position itself as a centrist party that appeals to both right and left without a clear statement, but always joins any coalition. And of course as always outside the camp there's the eternal leper - the modest ultra-Orthodox party, which fights against the pride parties, and mainly wants them to stop talking about sex all the time.

But in the end, after a very passionate election campaign, a national unity government is formed that earns the derogatory nickname "straight government", and it's the most boring coalition that does nothing. And all the small parties hate it and mock the petty and gray politics behind it, and the multitude of ministers and deals: Minister of Dishwashing in exchange for Deputy Minister of Garbage Disposal. And once again the same boring politics returns in the end. Because when the body is no longer interesting without politics, then the physical becomes political, and then the political also becomes boring. And only one thing still arouses curiosity and imagination in the world. Because this is the secret of democracy and it's not shown on the news - how do parties come into the world?

And all the children who have long been part of the smartphone, and like adults have no physical existence outside the network (and were themselves produced in a test tube), don't understand how it actually works in practice, I mean there are polls, and there are results, but something is missing in the middle, where do the parties come from, from the stork? And their parents blush and tell them: Wait, that's for 18+. Who taught you to ask that? That's not for your age yet, it's for adults only. When you grow up you'll understand. And then at 18 they tell the children that they've already become adults, and therefore take them to a political education lesson, to teach them the "facts of democracy". And the children open their mouths in amazement, and the teacher (all red) explains:

Once every four years, adults feel a need to do something. There are all kinds of natural biological signs for this, like swelling of veins in the neck, or raising of the voice, or unexplained tension, and some kind of inner excitement. They feel a need to do something physical, not just virtual, you understand? And then, and this is a completely natural thing that happens in every election season, they get up from the computer (the children are shocked) leave the house (the children giggle in embarrassment) and go to a public place (the children are mesmerized in disgust), and there they unite with the state behind the curtain. And there in the dark, without anyone seeing, in privacy (it's very important that it's in privacy!) the adults (including your parents), unite with their conscience and love the State of Israel.

And then one of the children, the most mischievous of all, asks: But how, how do they love it?

And the teacher answers, trembling all over: There's this kind of slit there, and each of us has genetic material. There are those who are gay, or straight, or anything else God gave us, it's all legitimate, the state doesn't judge us. And each of us chooses our own correct material, and only our own, and takes our white material and pushes it deep into the narrow black slit, and releases, and then at that moment endorphins are released in the brain and one feels a sense of elation and enormous pleasure, a feeling of euphoria and great satisfaction, that here one has performed one's civic duty for democracy - and that, children, is what's called sex.

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The Degeneration of the Nation

Why Did I Stop Reading Haaretz?

A chronicle of a foreseeable escape. The dog revisits the moments when she tore the leash, released the choking grip of the collar, and left with a disappointed head but a raised tail - from slavery to freedom, and from home to the street. Will she ever return?

By: The Dog

The Dog Bids Farewell to Haaretz  (Source)

In the end, always, it's simply a matter of trust. Like any relationship. And if you try to figure out what broke it - why did you part ways? - you ultimately return to the point of trust. Simply put, the unwritten contract between writer and reader is breached too many times. You finish and ask: why did I read this? You read and feel you've been duped - again. Sucker readers don't die, apparently, but in Haaretz they don't change either - until you realize you're the sucker. So why do people (not to mention dogs) continue this unseemly habit? What is the psychological mechanism that binds them to owners who feed them gravel, in which only occasionally can one find a doggy treat?

Most of the interesting content in Haaretz is (poorly) translated and adapted from other sources - isn't the original preferable? I've already developed an unseemly canine habit of looking up when the content is better than usual and seeing that it's actually not Haaretz's content. Hebrew literature? The literature and culture enthusiast would do well to read literature and culture - and not culture and literature, a supplement that has long ceased to be the current literary pulse, but rather literary current affairs - and the difference between the two is like the difference between the last sounds of the swamp, its croaks and splashes, to tectonic and evolutionary developments between the sea and the swamps. The important literary innovations of our time will reach the supplement when I'm a grandmother, and then it will be too late, even for what interests the grandmother. And what about the pulse of the Jewish state, or at least of the Jewish left (which is not, of course, Jewish)? Well, I prefer an autopsy to the monitor offered by Haaretz's mechanism, which operates on a simple principle. Almost all opinion pieces in Haaretz are uninteresting - what's interesting about them is that they're written in Haaretz. Agree with me - that's not such an interesting thing. And whoever does find it exciting - is the lowest reader. Haaretz is like a tycoon in debt of billions to its readers - billions of wasted moments of countless readers - approaching insolvency. What allows it to survive is only that it's a monopoly - there's no other newspaper for the intelligentsia in Israel. For now. And it's a shame, because it could have been a newspaper for thinking journalists.

The day I stopped reading the Haaretz website was a day like any other. Although Haaretz made it difficult to browse their site for browsers with ad blockers, there are always browser extensions where you browse as a search engine bot, and until Haaretz blocks their site to Google (hint: won't happen) - you can browse freely, and there are other technical solutions for those in the know. But what actually happened is that I lazed about in my kennel, yawned a big yawn, and did something unprecedented. For generic and trivial news, whose sole purpose is not to be completely disconnected from what passes through the minds of Hebrew readers, ynet is enough for me. And I simply changed the shortcut to news: from Haaretz - to the site known as Tamka [Translator's note: a popular Israeli news aggregator]. (And I also told myself that this way I'd be less disconnected from Bibi's state, which is the State of Israel). It felt as light as flicking off the last straw that had weighed on my back for far too long - and had accumulated into an annoying backache. A small tap with the paw (if that's the singular of paws).

Truth be told, I thought my world would crumble. That I'd be exposed to subpar content. That I'd become stupid, ignorant, a street dog, brainwashed, a Bibi voter, a whore and a drug addict, and it would be remembered as the moment of degeneration, at the end of which I'm raped by a Doberman who calls me a bitch and reads Israel Hayom [Translator's note: a free daily newspaper known for its pro-Netanyahu stance]. I was absolutely sure I'd return with my tail between my legs. And the truth: it didn't happen. The world is the same world. The news is the same news, the sea is the same sea, and a story about love and darkness is still an excruciatingly clichéd name (for the sweaty Israeli story). But in fact, something else wonderful happened, which surprised me very much and shook me with excitement from nose to tail. An occurrence that is no less than a sociological miracle - the miracle of change in the dog version. Suddenly, my reference community changed. Yes, everyone's stupid. But instead of my community of idiots being Haaretz's community of idiots, I moved to the all-Israeli community of idiots. In this community I felt more alienated - and this liberated me from the community, which is the real trouble of the dog. What has a dog to do with a pack of humans?

And so finally - only from the moment I disconnected from it - I got to understand the secret that had troubled me for years: I got to understand what Haaretz is, and why it holds its readers like dogs on a leash. Haaretz is a community. And just like Bibi, it controls its imagined community by inciting it against the occasional and unfortunate cat, with tasteless barks - but decisive in language - at imaginary convoys in the desolate night, and occasionally bribes with a little Bonzo [Translator's note: a brand of dog food], and most importantly: doesn't forget to wrap it all in some ridiculous canine unit pride - but flattering to the self-pride of its dogs. Because in the end - Bibi and Haaretz rule through the narcissism of their addressees. So I simply gave up, because I have a little self-respect. Today, I'm a bit more leftist, because Haaretz doesn't warm me up about the shallowness and stupidity of the left (which it displays with a lack of self-awareness - masquerading as self-aware self-awareness). But most importantly: my reference community has changed. From an imagined community in the present, to an imagined community that spans a much wider range of spaces and times.

Whether I want it or not - I am the elite. There's nothing to be done about it, and even a dog won't escape this fate. But if I'm the elite, whose elite am I? Am I the elite of the Israeli left? Why should I confine myself to this failed camp - actually. Why not expand the range. Why not be part of the elite of all of Israel, or of the Jewish people? Why not be part of the elite of the world, and why not of all generations? Why write reviews, instead of writing for generations, and instead of reading sources? Why not aim higher, breathe further, bark at the moon? Why not bark towards the Andromeda galaxy, actually? Here lies the dog. This is the crux of the matter.

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The Degeneration of the Nation

Criticism at the Beginning of the 21st Century

The asymmetry between creator and consumer was the foundation of the idea of "culture," which is a modern concept. The present book is the current pinnacle of closing the epistemic gap that enabled the institution of literature. The factor behind this surprising reversal in intellectual history, after thousands of years of widening the gap, is still not sufficiently understood. And here comes this book, pointing to the cause

By: A Critic from the Future

Book Burning  (Source)

Visiting the Sick

Since people no longer read books anyway, but only the reviews, it makes sense to create a new genre where writers only write reviews of the books they wanted to write. Or even more so, the review of their own book. Then they will also stop complaining about criticism, and there will be a whole book of reviews that will save people from reading an entire library, an entire culture, and everyone will benefit. Because usually, reviews are more interesting than the book. After all, if books were more interesting than reviews and more attractive to readers, newspapers would print excerpts from books and not reviews. Because the review is TL;DR [Translator's note: Too Long; Didn't Read] - it's the post that replaces the book, because when the writer himself doesn't have the energy to write the book, why would the reader have the energy to read? And so in the literature of reviews, which consists of reviews only without books, writers will also be able to directly address the books they loved and hated and not through pathetic imitation. And reviews of review books will already be truly pathetic, and all literature will deal only with literature, and die like classical music, with a loud noise, mighty and strong making a sound, rising up and slaying, against them praising and saying:

Review of My Book

The book before us is a breakthrough in the way literature is written. Since time immemorial, culture has been asymmetrical. There were writers and there were readers. When culture was oral, the difference between storyteller and listener was more dynamic, but material culture, particularly written culture, created an epistemological barrier between reader and writer. Printing only amplified this gap, rather than narrowing it, unlike manuscripts. So did the establishment of the institution of classics and the sealing of foundational books of a certain culture, like the religions of the book. The sealing was the stage at which everyone who preceded it was a creator and those after it were interpreters. In other words, it created a barrier in time between writer and reader. Printing created a barrier in space. No longer a manuscript where both writer and reader had the ability to add to it or correct it, but a physical distance between printing and reading. The gap was then at its peak, and this is what created the institution of literature (and within it criticism, publishing houses, editors, copyrights, authors, and more). The pinnacle of asymmetry is the idea of the genius writer. An idea that the current book refutes fundamentally. And perhaps terminally eliminates.
The newspaper was the first stage in reducing the time gap between writer and reader, namely the inverse structure of the classics, and the typewriter was the first stage in reducing the space gap. The personal computer made the text itself dynamic, erasable and editable, and returned it to the manuscript stage. But both the typewriter and the computer lacked the ability to reach a significant readership. The web of sites was a typewriter whose audience was readers, and reduced the space to zero, and social media was the reduction of the time gap between writing and reading to zero. That is, the central moment separating a network of sites from a social network is not who the nodes in the network are, as is commonly thought, but action in space versus action in time. Immediacy in place versus immediacy in time, and spread in virtual space, versus arrangement in time as updates. The book before us intensifies both these trends, and seems to have been written minutes before its printing.
The asymmetry between creator and consumer was the foundation of the idea of "culture," which is a modern concept. The present book is the current pinnacle of closing the epistemic gap that enabled the institution of literature. The factor behind this surprising reversal in intellectual history, after thousands of years of widening the gap, is still not sufficiently understood. And here comes this book, pointing to the cause. Writers are simply not as good. But is this the end of human culture? Yes and no. Because there is a new culture growing. Computerized culture. The computer created a new writer-reader gap, between programmer and user, which only machine learning will be able to narrow. A book that can be programming, and a reader who will be a user - that's the future. So we eagerly await the author's (not writer's) next books, hoping he will develop as a programmer. Because the user experience certainly needs improvement.

Review of Your Book

How can one combine the reader and the writer? If we completely eliminate the division, as in a text open for editing on the internet, anyone will be able to corrupt the writing, and we'll drown in lack of talent. The writer's new book finds a solution to this problem. It consists of countless short passages, while readers can rate them. The best passages in relation to the number of ratings minus a constant parameter, designed to prevent a passage from being considered the best if rated by only one person, are displayed at the top in the non-personal version of the book. But the main thing is in its personal version, which is also divided into a road trip or a forest trip. In the road version, each reader rates a passage, and according to their rating, the algorithm gives them a passage it predicts they will like, and so from passage to passage the match improves. In the forest version, the reader receives two passages, chooses the better of them, and thus receives two more passages, chooses the better, and so on. The book was arranged by the author as a network, as an associative graph, sometimes narrative, of passages. Each node in the network (i.e., a passage in the book) can lead to several others from which the next passages are chosen. In such a situation, criticism of the book is impossible, because it is actually criticism of yourself. However, one can criticize the user experience. And the experience is associative. For there to be a book that truly eliminates the division between reader and writer, each paragraph or sentence needs to be written according to the reader's response to those before it, and therefore it needs to be written as part of the reading, and its writer needs to be the computer. Such a computer will learn the reader himself, and the reader will need to rate or choose to give the computer feedback necessary for learning. That is, the literature of the future will not be one where the computer is the genius writer who writes a superhuman masterpiece, and re-establishes the classic gap, but literature where writing a book is programming a book and the reader is the user. All this, while the book itself is a collaborative work of the reader and writer through the computer, which is a new type of text. That is, narrowing the epistemological gap between writing and reading will open a new gap between programming and use - where literature can reside. And when learning narrows this gap - a new gap will be found. That is, the history of culture is an epistemological accordion, creating periods of decline and flourishing, ebb and flow.

The Generations Novel

This book actually copied from the Bible. At the beginning of the century, an acute aesthetic problem arose in the cultural center, for which many insufficient solutions were proposed: how to create a book from a collection of stories. Human attention and experience shifted to blogging, fragmented, internet-based, status-oriented, short writing, reading and understanding, while literature is a long form, and in order to create the depth of meaning of great literature, breadth is essential. The result was often shallow literature, not necessarily emotionally but culturally and ideologically, not important or meaningful, without depth and great spirit, that is, without aesthetic greatness. A huge black hole was created in the middle of culture in the ability to address and create big ideas, exactly at the stage when they were most needed. The insight of this book was that the Bible too is a collection of short stories, what gives them unity is the chronological developmental order, through the generations, and perhaps also one constant character, although in fact lacking depth and personality as a character, but more of a thematic subject. Neither the people nor God are heroes, but the heroes change according to the order of generations and follow the order of genealogy, over thousands of years. And here, especially in Genesis, the book found the solution. It essentially describes family genealogy, one of the most worn-out genres, but in summary and over dozens of generations, when in each generation only one child is chosen to be the leading branch, and already in a generation or two later they don't follow the siblings who became uncles, and all in biblical brevity that gives only the dramatic essence, and each generation necessarily reflects its time, and the book - the history of generations, in this case the history of the Jewish people, through dramas and tragedies, loves and deaths, over several dozen generations, until the death of the last descendant in the Holocaust. And this book opened a new genre, the generations story, which was widely copied in many cultures, with each trying to tell the Chinese or Italian story and so on, and each has something to say about history. Some emphasized individuals, and how similar the generations are despite everything changing, and some emphasized great themes of change, or the fatal and sometimes tragic repetition of patterns in the same family, genetically, or conversely, in global literature - the changes from nation to nation and from religion to religion over the generations, sometimes in a circular and ironic way, or how far a person's descendants can move to the other side of the world, and of humanity, and sometimes also return by chance. This genre proved to be extremely fruitful, and as a sequence of stories that can be read before sleep without losing both separateness and continuity. From A Thousand and One Nights to A Thousand Generations and Generations.

Towards Network Literature

This book is the first network book. The transition of psychological literature was from the external conflict between two characters in the plot (or in more boring literature between man and nature), to internal conflict. But in biblical literature the conflict is in the heart of the people, that is, conflict in culture. And this is in contrast to ancient literature where the conflict is between man and god, or gods, or in Greek between the gods themselves, which is expressed in the world itself in conflict between people (two levels of conflict). Perhaps in more ancient, oral literature, the conflict was between forces of nature, or between supernatural forces. And before that maybe between animals, like today's sports descriptions - hunting and predation literature. That is, if today the problem is how to represent conflict in the network, in culture, we can learn from the Bible that dealt with the collective soul, with the people of Israel (or later with the Shekhinah [Translator's note: Divine Presence in Jewish mysticism], in a way that did not receive sufficient literary development, unlike philosophical - a little of this was started by Nachman of Breslov). But unlike the Bible, which set the collective soul against God and his representative or word (and sometimes also set the people's representative, the king, against him), in this incarnation of intra-cultural conflict, the description should be like in modern psychological internal conflict, that is, presenting conflict within the system (and later learning conflict, and later creative conflict). All these await appropriate literary representation and literary tools that will be developed to express them. Therefore, today, we need a form of literature of many against many: for example, two groups of users on Facebook including everyone between the extremes (for example religious versus secular or dog lovers against cat lovers), or alternatively representatives of the many, for example two network personalities fighting each other with their crowd of followers behind them. We must have literary representation for cyber wars, and indeed - this book describes how two parts of the network fight each other. Instead of drowning in countless characters and losing the reader, it is built as a war of talkbacks and posts and Facebook responses and private messages and emails and messages on a dating site. In its choice to describe everything that happens on an entire dating site in one evening, in cross-section, including the profiles themselves and the conversations between them, in parallel with the conversations between women and their friends and men and their friends, it exposes the depth of the war and alienation between men and women, in a gender war that has turned into a virtual trench warfare. After dramatic news, the book takes a turn and the participants rearrange themselves on Facebook in a new virtual struggle in two cross-gender camps - right and left - until (following additional news) a transition to new drama and division, this time in responses on a news site - Ashkenazim versus Mizrahim [Translator's note: Jews of European descent versus Jews of Middle Eastern/North African descent]. And finally after three acts, literally, the nightly drama subsides, and the book ends back in the eternal gender war on Tinder, of lonely singles, frustrated married people, and night owls who struggle to fall asleep (spoiler: there's nothing new under the sun). The pages are arranged in the form of posts and articles and the progression of responses and arguments below them - thus returning to an ancient form of literature that seemed to have been abandoned, and renewing it in a surprising narrative renaissance: the Talmud.

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The Degeneration of the Nation

The Israel-Russia War

We are the sinners who allowed Assad to slaughter hundreds of thousands a hundred kilometers from here with complete indifference, and now we're paying for it

By: The Institute for Strategic Bears

Russia as a Paper Bear (Source)

I dreamed that it all started when Russia deployed S300 batteries, and the Israelis didn't want to be seen as suckers, which is the security doctrine of the State of Israel. So in response, the IDF launched Operation "Monkeys to Flight". While the Military Police can't manage to catch ultra-Orthodox men in yeshivas, in a special operation they caught a draft-dodging monkey hiding in a cage at the Biblical Zoo, who after an abbreviated flight course was put on a fighter jet straight into the depths of Syria. The new batteries fired like crazy at the UAM (Unmanned Ape Machine), which continued to sail like a drunk between the missiles until it fell - and the brave soldier parachuted into the Lebanon forest. The world media was shocked by the downing of the first F35 aircraft in enemy territory and the fall of an Israeli pilot deep in Lebanon for the first time since the Lebanon War, and Nasrallah laughed: Is this the best air force in the world? Extensive forces of Hezbollah and Syria set out on a manhunt in a race against time to create Ron Arad 2 [Translator's note: Ron Arad was an Israeli Air Force navigator who went missing in action in 1986]. No one was surprised that in response to the global humiliation and the downing of the stealth aircraft by the Syrian batteries, which on that occasion also exposed themselves, Israel destroyed them with radar-guided missiles. The drama surrounding the missing pilot in the world media was at its peak for a week, when Hezbollah finally found a monkey hanging on a tree in Air Force uniform. The IDF Chief of Staff in a trolling of Nasrallah: "We are ready to release a thousand terrorists in exchange for an Israeli monkey." The world exploded with laughter and a photo album of "Kopiko in the Air Force" [Translator's note: Kopiko is a popular Israeli children's book character who is a monkey] courtesy of the IDF Spokesperson became a global hit on social media.

And I say to my wife in bed: This time the Zionists have gone completely mad. Don't they know what the Russians did to Chabad? They will bring disaster upon us all. According to Kabbalah, the North is the side of the Sitra Achra [Translator's note: "The Other Side", referring to evil forces in Kabbalah] - "Evil will open from the North"! It's not for nothing that there's peace with the Arabs of the South and not with the North. Egypt didn't destroy any Temple. This is exactly the hubris that caused us to rebel against Assyria and Babylon, contrary to the warnings of the prophets. This is the central geopolitical message of the entire Bible. What, haven't they learned anything?

Indeed, the Russians laughed less. They also didn't want to be seen as suckers, in accordance with Russia's security doctrine, and therefore announced that this time they would deploy S400 batteries. In response, the Prime Minister went to Russia, and on the return flight took the embassy staff with him in a protest move, in what was perceived as a severe crisis in relations between the countries, and a "Haaretz" commentator interpreted: A strategic victory for Iran - it succeeded in causing conflict between Israel and a world power. How great was the surprise of the commentators when that very night the entire Air Force took to the air and destroyed the batteries in one night and shot down several Russian fighter jets that came out to defend them in the first air battles between Israel and Russia since 1970, which ended then with a score of 5:0 for Israel. Putin was furious and promised revenge, but it turned out that Europe, Britain and the US strongly support Israel, in the sense that finally someone is setting a limit for Putin, and apparently only the Israelis are crazy enough to do it. The entire Western intelligence community, which has a long account with Russia, mobilized to help Israel deliver a knockout blow. In the arena important to Israel (due to Holocaust complexes) - its image in the West - the crisis actually caused a wave of sympathy for it, while a severe anti-Semitic wave swept through Russia. Each additional exchange of blows between the IDF and the Russian army exposed its internal rot, the neglect of its equipment, its poor human level and technological inferiority compared to Western weapons, and presented Russia as a paper bear. The Russians did equip Iran with advanced weapon systems in revenge, but the blow to the prestige of the Russian military industry was severe, its sales plummeted and Russian weapons lost their deterrence. There is a God.

And my wife says to me in bed: You see what salvations God is doing for Israel. You know what I heard on the radio? Putin in gematria [Translator's note: Hebrew numerology] equals "filth". And why are they together? Because Russia in gematria equals Syria. What does the prophet say? Do not fear these two smoldering stubs. And I say to her: Again you listened to your Kookist [Translator's note: followers of Rabbi Kook's religious Zionist philosophy] rebbetzin? Just as it doesn't help in gender relations, it won't help in international relations either. Let me tell you what's happening: The US and Obama the war criminal, who has the blood of half a million Syrians on his hands, in the sense of "Do not stand idly by your neighbor's blood", received for this a punishment from God called Trump. And we sinners too, who allowed Assad to slaughter hundreds of thousands a hundred kilometers from here, with complete indifference, are now paying a heavy price in a punishment called Putin. There is no moral vacuum. Syria is Israel's great moral failure. Not the occupation. And did you see any leftist who shouted about it? Except for Rabbi Berland, but he's a certified nutcase and a serial rapist. Shame and disgrace. If we had intervened in time with a humanitarian motive in the civil war, we could have overthrown the arch-butcher at minimal cost, and we would have gained real appreciation from the Sunni Arabs, and this would have been a real opening for reconciliation with the Arab world. But you'll see how God will punish Israel for not learning a lesson after the Holocaust to prevent genocide.

Indeed, Russia was not left helpless. In its distress, Russia turned to cyber weapons, and brought upon Israel a plague of darkness for three days. In response, Israel took control of parts of Russian communications for three days and opened the censored internet, allowing for the first time the general public in Russia to be exposed to anti-Putin propaganda, which was perceived as a painful hit to the Tsar's Achilles heel. Putin couldn't restrain himself and began a widespread anti-Semitic hunt and arrests of "traitors" from the Jewish community. This move turned out to be a fatal mistake, which actively mobilized the US and Europe against him while imposing paralyzing sanctions on the Russian economy and causing the Russian ruble to plummet at rates similar to the collapse of the Iranian rial. When Moscow announced that it was aiming nuclear missiles at Jerusalem, Jerusalem made a similar announcement, and when Russian nuclear submarines were seen off the coast of Tel Aviv, parallel submarines peeked near St. Petersburg, and the nuclear dimension cooled the conflict to the level of a cold war. In the final account, Israel lost about two hundred civilians and soldiers from Russian attacks, about the same as in the Second Lebanon War, and on the other hand gained a new kind of deterrence for its willingness to confront a superpower, which for the first time positioned it as an equal global player in the playing field of the great powers. So may all Your enemies perish, O Lord, and may those who love Him be like the rising of the sun in its might!

And my wife says to me in bed: Well, morning. Wake up already from the dream. You're snoring in my ear.

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The Degeneration of the Nation

The New Antisemitism

A new class division is emerging in the information age. Until now, every increase in education for the masses has been accompanied by a smarter society as a whole. However, as the democratic and individualistic propaganda of the media increasingly flatters the average person - their wisdom, understanding, talent, and rights - the public's arrogance and hubris rise to the point of cultural catastrophe. Only a new class division within society will stop the barbarism

By: Patient Zero

A famous graduate of public school (Source)

What caused the Holocaust was not the industrial revolution - it would have happened even before it - but the communications revolution: mass media. There could be a Holocaust without trains and with horses, but there couldn't be a Holocaust without radio, and especially without propaganda. Because once mass communication arose, when enough people became media consumers due to the development of reading and writing for the masses, antisemitism spread throughout the world, including the Muslim world, even before the Holocaust. Antisemitism was the virus, and mass communication allowed for rapid infection, and then the Holocaust was just the disease.

The Holocaust was caused because the masses learned to write and read, because of public school. The moment the masses entered the game, the most vulgar and cheap incitement immediately spread, and this was always antisemitism, which was also the most long-standing and established. There were countless incitement materials that had been shaped for generations, and now they became viral. Therefore, those who think that the internet and social media will come without a viral spread of historical diseases - don't understand that the Enlightenment and education were reading and writing for the elite, but when the masses entered the game, other things happened.

Science is elite, and the masses produce less and less intellectual value because they are incited. Therefore, the intellectual master race, the intelligent ones, need to rule over the fools. Because antisemitism is the hatred of the fools towards the wise. The hatred of the masses towards the elite. People with high IQs need to increasingly understand that those with average IQs are their enemies and need to be increasingly controlled, because they don't control themselves. This is the class of the future. And the next class war is a neuro-war between brain classes.

We're talking about a thousand divisions in society: the fat against the thin, the rich against the poor, men against women, but the only relevant division that will dominate the next century is the intelligent against the stupid. And this is a completely repressed division. Therefore, an inverse Marxism of the intellect, or intellectual capitalism, is necessary.

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The Degeneration of the Nation

When I hear the word culture - I reach for my banana

How are philosophers' sexual needs expressed in their thought? What kind of pressure needs to be developed in order to develop culture? Why do cultural gaps grow wider as cultural progress accelerates - leading to separation and the creation of conservative culture and avant-garde culture? How did language create a culture of secrecy, gossip and concealment that distinguished humans from apes? Why is violence becoming increasingly secretive? What lies behind the outer shell? And why is the banana peel on the floor?

By: The Banana Philosopher

When mental violence and sexual frustration turn into philosophy - philosophy turns into a banana  (Source)

Enlightenment thought as an own goal by thinkers who wanted to get sex

Women leave relationships more often, and it's not because it's personally beneficial for them, but because the exit barriers are lower, because that's the nature of natural selection, that there is selection, and they are responsible for selecting men, it's an interest of the species and not of the individual. And then culture - when it wanted long-term child-rearing and a complex social structure - with the help of reason corrected nature, and put very high barriers on women leaving relationships, so that only the worst systems would break down, and whoever breaks them becomes poor. But feminism lowered the barriers, because many thinkers wanted free sex, and fought against the existing system out of the rebellious nature of the beta male. And since then the family has been destroyed, and with it culture is deteriorating, because the education of a father to his son, tradition, respectable male models - are being destroyed. They didn't understand that free sex means less regular sex and more loneliness. And that the natural state, where a child grows up in a tribe, and doesn't need a specific father, and long-term apprenticeship, is not a good state for human development. Culture corrects the failures of evolution and natural society so that it will be more successful, meaning developing. Evolution emphasizes external beauty and strength, while culture emphasizes social status. The return to the natural state is a step backwards, and not happier, because people in their natural state are not motivated by utility or happiness, but by impulses and neurology, determined by the evolution of the species. Happiness is just one neurological mechanism, not particularly important, and so is utility. Pleasure and enjoyment are not the central drives in the brain. What controls is dopamine, and that's why people are addicted to the internet and news and updates and instant messages and series - and not to sex. Because in the jungle you had to be careful every moment during the day, and have sex only at night.

The supernatural versus the unnatural in regulating nature

A little pressure is good, but in a state of prolonged scarcity consciousness, a behavioral system designed to survive hunger is activated, which has a depressing effect. In every period there are those who activate prolonged pressure consciousness, whether it's the church because of sins, or capitalism that creates artificial scarcity consciousness, or social status scarcity consciousness in class society. And so, out of a bug in the human brain that operates differently in a state of scarcity, sectors in the population are created, like the poor, who constantly operate in hunger consciousness. For example, today a consciousness of time scarcity has been created, and one can think of crowded lives that created a consciousness of space scarcity, and so on, and therefore people are unable to manage their time and a time-poor class is created. Because in scarcity and pressure consciousness, neurological and physical systems are activated that sacrifice the long term for the short term calculation, which are evolutionary remnants. Just as the stress designed to escape predators currently depresses people's immune system and increases blood pressure, even though there is no connection between the body's mobilization for urgent physical action and their stress, and therefore causes health problems. So many people have a sick brain due to time scarcity consciousness, despite there not really being such a scarcity (that is not artificially created). One can think of a future where there is stress from lack of creativity, or knowledge, or sexuality, and so on. There was even someone who managed to create stress consciousness from lack of meaning, and called it existentialism, something that now belongs in the trash bin of ideas. Culture is the understanding that what I want, my natural neurology without effort, is not necessarily what's good for me, and therefore there is a need for reason above nature, because there are flaws in nature. The theory of evolution made people think that what is natural has been optimized and therefore natural is good, but evolution often doesn't reach the best solution and gets stuck in a local maximum. Many times it's stuck in solutions of the game theory kind, because it does local and not global optimization. When people thought God created the world, then the natural didn't necessarily seem good to them, because he also created culture that corrects the natural with systems of sins that are opposite to the natural. But human neurology is messed up in many ways, and there are all kinds of things that selfishly help the individual at the expense of society, like personality disorders, and vice versa, that help society at the expense of the individual's good, like conformity, and also just all kinds of phenomena that came out by mistake, like mental illnesses. And therefore one shouldn't hurry to throw away the sins and structures created by culture, the fruit of cultural evolution, just because their justifications have been removed and understood as artificial and invented, because the justifications were never the main thing, but the regulation. The true enemies of culture like Foucault claim that the justifications are against our interests, and therefore it's likely that throwing the structures in the trash will improve our situation. But they are not interested in one direction, but a system of balances between many factors, and an attempt of generations, in what works and what doesn't work, and therefore any structural change can lead to worse results than the current situation, even if it's just lowering cultural barriers. The best example is sexual liberation, which unlike feminism was destructive. It's not true that there were always sexual harassments and only now we the enlightened are eradicating them. But once the various structures of how to behave between the sexes, sexual culture, were removed, chaos was created, and violence, and the natural jungle state. Therefore we need a new and conservative sexual culture, that respects both sexes equally, although equality is not necessarily just, and it's possible that for neurological reasons inequality is preferable. But we must separate the feminist revolution from the sexual one, and not destroy the institution that meanwhile has no substitute - the institution of family. Because now the state is invading the most private domain, of relationships between the sexes, which becomes a domain where the public has something to say, after it invaded all other domains, like work, family, education, helping the weak, and so on. This is totalitarianism of the state that becomes a total legal system like the Halachic one. When children will be able to sue their parents the state will finally enter - even in families without divorce - the family domain. The natural sexuality of humans is so messed up and problematic that in many cultures they changed it through physical change in the human body in external appearance, in clothing and in sexual organs, like circumcision. It's not because they were stupid, but out of the need to regulate something that doesn't work well for the benefit of society. Therefore there is no such thing as returning to natural sexuality. Or to a natural couple structure. The natural structure is a hairy ape.

General Intelligence Commando Unit (GICU)

There is also another false pressure consciousness, which is the consciousness of the late 19th and early 20th century, and it is the pressure consciousness of place, which was before the pressure consciousness of time. In it lived the Germans who wanted living space for the Aryans and feared the extermination of their race (another false pressure consciousness, racial pressure), and in it live the settlers and Arabs, despite there being plenty of space in the world, and there is no longer importance to living near water sources. Another pressure that is created is the one related to sexuality, which the world creates on the individual by presenting sexual abundance, and in the past there were various imaginary pressures, like pressure from demons, or from impurity, or from sins and temptations. And today they are working on creating future pressure. That is, a society structures its values by creating a sense of false scarcity, and not only through temptation and positive reward, but through negative reward that is implanted in people's minds through propaganda, like sexual propaganda today. Pressure usually takes a real need and expands it immeasurably compared to its biological origin, and whoever lives in constant scarcity consciousness is a slave to the social system. That is, society works through a double mechanism: dream + nightmare. Today society lives in a sense of acceleration, which creates pressure from being left behind, and the feeling is that the force that creates the acceleration does not stem from pushing by the past towards the future, but it is a force that is in the future, that pulls towards it, like gravity, towards a black hole. Therefore it creates a feeling that there is something in the future that we will collide with or reach and be swallowed into, and this is in contrast to the Enlightenment period that moved by a repulsive force from the past, a negative force. In a situation where society is not a working machine, but a system that moves forward, there is no importance to the average and ordinary person who is a part of the machine like everyone else, the screw exactly like the chip, but there is importance only to those who are ahead, to the small percentage that deviates from the norm in their skills. That is, an average person in any society becomes worthless, and only deviation forward is valuable, and what's important in any society is only the geniuses and the most talented and advanced, and not the abilities of the average person. A society can neglect the average, like the USA, and be much more advanced than a society where the average is higher, but there are fewer talented people at the edge. And this is a natural result of moving forward, that only the few whose noses protrude forward a bit from the general are important, those who live a little in the future, and therefore they are entrepreneurs, or the first to think of ideas. Also the brain population can depend on a very small number of creative and smart neurons that create intelligence and sweep all the rest, without any connection to the brain's operation as a huge machine, and therefore it may be that creative intelligence is a very specific phenomenon in a certain area of the brain, and not a systemic property. Like how the genome is influenced by mutations found in edge populations, and not so dependent on the broad population of the species. That is, from a cultural perspective it's clear that what leads is a commando unit, and not the mass from which geniuses randomly emerge, but a system is created where suddenly there are many geniuses. Therefore it's possible that this is how other learning systems work, because in learning as opposed to action what's important is only the commando unit, and this is the logic of the existence of life within matter, or the human species within evolution, or the existence of the Jewish people in history. Investment in the commando unit only, and the commando unit phenomenon.

The importance of the next religion

In the end it will turn out that what distinguishes humans is not intelligence but culture, no one really knows how smart an elephant or whale is, or even a crow. Just as computers didn't make a revolution until they were connected to the internet and nerve cells didn't make a revolution until they were connected in the brain, and it took a very long time for cells to turn from colonies that communicate with each other through chemical signals like bacteria into one whole organism, so it's possible that what caused the evolution of the brain was actually culture. And culture was caused precisely by the long childhood that was forced on humans the moment they stood upright and were born with an unprepared brain due to a small head, but a brain open to learning. That is, learning was more important than intelligence, and who won is not the individually smartest ape but the most learning ape as a group. And to this day the strongest motivations of humans are related to their organization as a group. It's not for nothing that politics is at the top of the news, it really interests everyone the most. And poverty is an adaptation mechanism of the weak ape compared to the dominant ape in the group, designed not to threaten him - to avoid threat from him. So is the Fermi paradox, the ability of stars to communicate with each other, to create a network of worlds, is harder than creating intelligence in each of them. That is, the speed of light gives a finite size to culture. If God is an alien, does that reduce his religious power? Not necessarily. We can have an intimate relationship with an alien. But a relationship with an alien will always be very asymmetrical. In this sense we are alone. The transition from a network of humans to an organism of humans - where individuals will remain outside and be like terrorist bacteria compared to the large animal - can take quite a bit of time, and require a suitable religious ideology, which will cause humans to give up their essence and personality. It will be a very extreme type of cult. That is, individuals (life) are quickly created and they quickly create a network of connections between them, but it takes a very long time until they become a whole, because it's actually not in their interest and against game theory, it's to become something else. In Judaism there is such an infrastructure in the system of sefirot [Translator's note: divine emanations in Kabbalah], in a Zoharic group where each embodies a different sefirah and there are connections between them. And in the ability to multiply and divide this division again and again, in a fractal structure that repeats itself. Such a group is described in the Zohar and had imitations throughout the generations, of various secret groups. That is, what glues the individuals into a whole is not regular communication but secrecy.

The tunnels are secrets underground - and therefore effective

If the leftists wanted to end the occupation they would all register for the Likud [Translator's note: right-wing Israeli political party]. And replace the prime minister. But this needs to be done in secrecy, and the ability to organize a large action in secrecy is the peak of culture and organizational ability. Secrecy is a force multiplier of action. Because the impact is according to the change in power, and surprise turns all the power into change in power, from zero to a hundred. The change in power is what determines in power struggles, everything is relative to expectations. And therefore culture needs something above it, a floor of secrecy. Like intelligence is the secret above the state. Whose purpose is to prevent surprise and create surprise. Like how the Holocaust succeeded because it was a secret. And not as they say that everyone knew. The sheep didn't know about the slaughter. Terror succeeds thanks to surprise. And the Cold War was all a war of secrecy, and the cyber war even more so, it's a secret that there's a war. People are afraid of algorithms because of the secrecy of their operation. But only when a computer has a real internal secret will it become human. Like how in every person there is a world of secrecy and that's what turns them from an animal to a human. The power of science was to take the secret from religion, the secret of the universe's operation. The human attraction to secrecy is a neurological trait that developed evolutionarily for social reasons (secrets in society) and as a hunter (secrets in nature). As a knowledge machine the brain is drawn to secrecy. And to the new. And we are at a stage of victory of the new over the secret. And therefore we need a new secret.

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The Degeneration of the Nation

Peace Begins Within Us

If I were the Prime Minister, the first thing I would do is find a religious solution to the conflict with the Muslims. I would turn the Jews in the country into dhimmis [protected non-Muslim subjects] according to Sharia law by paying the jizya tax - and put an end to the conflict. I'm in favor of Ahmadinejad being the president of the State of Israel

By: A stammering prophet married to an Afro-Midianite

Giving up pork for peace (Source)

I dreamed that the leftists are going crazy because religious people are pressing the button that launches missiles with their noses on Shabbat, or selling the country to an Arab during the Sabbatical year, or that there's no Jewish nationality because an Eritrean can convert, and then all the synagogues will be forced to accept him and call him up to the Torah (I wonder why they haven't thought of this solution to the terrible danger to life?), and that even Moses, the founder of the racist religion, married a Cushite woman, which in their eyes is like Hitler marrying a Jewish woman. And I go berserk, like every time the secular people drive me crazy and I penetrate their hardcore to communicate with it, and I call myself "missile launcher with the nose," or "converted Eritrean," or "stammering prophet married to an Afro-Midianite," and I put a picture of a black guy with a black shtreimel [fur hat worn by some Hasidic Jews] (it turns them on), and in the private pictures I put a lulav [palm branch used during Sukkot]. And I pester the secular people who are looking for a Haredi for the night and I take out my frustrations on them, and I write in a line that runs at the top of the entire site:

It's exactly because of all these things that there won't be peace between you and the Arabs! The problem with secular people is that they're so proud of having Western thinking like the enlightened Christians, that they're unable to grasp the halakhic thinking, which is shared by Judaism and Islam. That's why they also can't understand the concept of legal fiction, or fiction in general. Because if the law is man-made, then it's subject to secular logic, but if the law is from heaven, no logic is needed, and then the secular mind goes crazy, because it's not logical that there's no logic, it's really not rational, not realistic, in a dream everything is allowed. So go make an agreement between Western law and Eastern law, it's a dialogue of the deaf, like a straight guy hitting on a gay guy. On the other hand, Halakha and Sharia get along excellently.

And a well-known leftist professor starts hitting on me (at first I didn't understand who's hitting on whom when you're both men, and I quickly learned that the older one hits on the younger one): Sounds like you're not in the right place. But come on, let's see you get along with the Arabs, even we who are much more moral than you didn't succeed. I've been following you for a while. You love to f*ck with people's minds so much. Are you sure you're not straight?

And I write the historic solution to the conflict in the profile that no one reads because everyone only looks at the pictures and gets really excited about the lulav:

If I were Prime Minister, the first thing I would do is find a religious solution to the conflict with the Muslims. I would appoint a permanent Muslim president without powers and formally turn the Jews in the country into dhimmis according to Sharia, by paying a symbolic jizya tax of 18 dinars, and put an end to the conflict, just like we sell the state's chametz [leavened food products] to an Arab on Passover. But within the Muslim world, I would choose to be subject to the Shiites, and create a Shiite continuum from Iran to Israel, because the Hasidic Shiites are on the rise and the Sunni opposing world is rotten, and mainly because the conditions of dhimmitude according to Shia are excellent, unlike the conditions of the Sunnis, the Pact of Umar, which are unacceptable. I'm in favor of Ahmadinejad being the president of the State of Israel. He will also help us fight drunkenness and pigs in the public space, which is the only real content in the Shia conditions. So I hope the secular people will agree to give up pork for peace. Or at least be honest that the conflict is because of pork.

And then an Arab gay guy writes to me: Shu hada? [What's this?]

Nightlife