This column, [google translation] is primarily a personal column, a sort of self-indulgence in how and why you can spend, or at the very least minimize the impact of politics on our lives.
This past year on the two headlines and spinning election campaigns, under the auspices and encouragement of bored and creative media, has loaded our lives with tons of abusive politics, even those who do not take a direct part in politics, or try not to care, find it hard to escape.
All the more so, since they are trying to engage in public affairs, take part in public struggles, whether those of the integrity of the land, the integrity of the people or the integrity of the Torah find it difficult to separate, escape and escape. The boundaries between ideology and politics have long been blurred, and the conceptual discourse is pervasive and contaminated in personal discourse. The strong desire to change and influence has created a new standard of success with new measurement bars, and it is hard to remember what in retrospect and what, in the first place, what we wanted and where we came from.
The political skirmishes, the debates over the forefront of a place, even if proper intent lies behind, smell of stench and decay. Valuable people who were easy to question about the dedication for the people of Israel on both sides of the barricade, become ridiculous and despondent, the necessary discourse on ideology, vision, and even the way to fulfill the vision, remained aside as the stage took on spins, brawls, and ego fights (heavenly and cynical) Cynicism alike).
Do elections and politics really affect our lives?
In this column, I allow myself to deny one of the common beliefs in the public - the belief in the influence of elections and politics on our lives.
The right-wing public - traumatized by the disengagement - sees every election system as a fateful system for the future of settlement. It turns out that they forges that they suffered the biggest blow when it brought one of the greatest achievements. (Right-to-Right Government, Great Likud, 13 Right-wing Party Mandates)
The frequent reminder of the so-called 'elections' 92 also makes us forget that the Oslo process did not begin and end with the left's rise to power. This is not to say that Rabin's victory was unaffected, but it is important to remember that the process began with Shamir, and continued with Netanyahu, who was responsible for the Wye agreements, which were no less terrible and perhaps more than Oslo itself. Similarly, the limited right-wing policy of the past decade has no bearing on politics. Netanyahu is no longer right-wing Sharon, today's Likud is no longer ideological, and the parties to the right of the Likud are no different from those in the decade before.
Continuing to engage in politics, much like a casino gambling addiction, one cannot deny the fact that finer profits can be made in politics in less time, whether it is advertising, and at such a level that politics alone would cost a great deal on purchasing advertising space and the like, or achievement and change. Locals in different laws and the like, but to the same extent that it is so easily earned that also those engaged in politics lose easily.
It is hard to count those scattered on the side of the road falling off the [speeding] politics train, influential people, who got on the train and crashed out of it. The pleasant and painful truth is that all these spins and dramas have almost no effect on our lives. The truth is that after all the flow of information we are not even able to make a rational choice, a person's political influence, and even a party, a Knesset or a minister is like a Russian roulette game, with no data anyone knows and is unable to know what the results of his actions will be.
The art of politics is the art of hindsight, it may be consumed and useful in the margins of life, but as it becomes our agenda, we become a life that hindsight is in the first place.
This criticism is more or less familiar. This time, I also want to wonder about the premise of the profitability of dealing with politics, and to mention that in a casino - even when you earn, you always end up losing
The media is doing everything, to keep us in suspense, that we feel all the time that the future depends on knowing that we will leave Push for another half hour. The pleasant and painful truth is that all these spins and dramas have almost no effect on our lives. Like, if we hold all the right information, we can choose what's good for us. The truth is that after all the flow of information we are not at all able to make a rational choice, the political influence of a person, and even a party, a Knesset or a minister is like that of a Russian roulette game, with no data anyone knows and is unable to know what the results of his actions will be.
Man's control over the results of his actions in politics is very limited, here are many examples: (Jewish leadership that miraculously disarmed the Likud and disengagement, the famous Resurrection Party, the last schism in the Jewish home and more) - It is no accident that a person's ability to predict the results of his actions in a data-saturated system is only minimal
On the other hand - permanent processes, such as those created outside of politics - will have a greater impact, even if the politicians have shortened their glory (this is not what we care about). The Oslo processes on the one hand and the discourse of sovereignty on the other, neither this nor that were a product of politics, politics in general shortened the activities תוצאות מעשיו במערכת רווית נתונים היא מזערית בלבד.
Politics, and in that sense hardly matter who the characters are, is influenced by public opinion and not the other way around. Politics, on the other hand, has the effect of having an in-depth discussion that can lead to a genuine process of public response, a process where people move from one block to the next, and ask fundamental questions, our existence questions.
And hence for further comment on the money. One of the most stimulating reasons for all people to politics is the huge money spilled there - what does big money mean? A party with 11 seats receives NIS 50 million, a party with 5 seats will reach NIS 25 million in the Knesset. Only to receive the size of the "New Fund for Israel", which everyone talks about its effects on Israeli society, raises about $30 million a year. If it is said gently, if we compare the impact of the New Israel Fund, to the influence of Likud, that politics wastes money, imagine a scale of activity of the Knesset, and now, realize how much you do not do with This money is nothing, so much money to dope us and get us blurred.
So what is it?
As we strive (and it is certainly difficult) to take politics out of our lives, to push it to the brink of discourse, the more we can invest most of our powers in real changes, those that affect the field, those that affect society, and those that determine the market for ideas.
The more we can sustain a strong and stable conceptual movement that will prevent big vision and deep ideas, we will be able to influence and change more, even without a single Knesset representative. Come out and learn from "Gush Emunim", come out and learn from "Sovereignty Movement" Come out and learn from "Peace Now".
The more we can sterilize the 'discouraged' discourse and deal with the essence, the more so in practice we will have to make far fewer 'debased' decisions. If we realize that our day-to-day activities have a thousand times as much influence on the ballot box, we can put our lives back in balance, and maybe even sanity.
And in the margins of things proper disclosure: I am not voting in elections - it is my personal decision, which is worth writing a column on its own. However - the things I wrote above I believe - are also true for those who choose to go and drop a note into the box.
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