Don't you like to bask in the lap of nostalgia? There are many like you!
And yet, maybe just this once? Let's bow down to the days of old, because they did tell us: "Gentlemen, history repeats itself," but it really doesn't seem to be going in the right direction.
Here, see 4 examples of this.
If you have any more, we would be happy to update you.
1.
Once upon a time, the press and media wrote about an incident that had occurred. The incident was shocking in itself, and each person chose how to be shocked, how shocked they were, and shed as many tears as they could from the roar of their hearts.
I remember that, as a journalist, one of the rules that guided me was: "Don't tell a person to be shocked - write the article in such a way that he understands that the thing is terrible.".
Today, the headlines of the news, articles, columns, and posts are: heartbreaking, true shock, horrific sight, shock in the community, not a single eye will remain dry.
After all these introductions, the eye is already dry, it has difficulty shedding a tear, because others have done it in its place, because others have taken away its vitality, taken away from it the minimal choice of every reader: how to regret what happened, how to contain the thing within itself, and how to lament according to its proportions.
What is called: "emotional progress." Or not?
2.
Once, when a news item was written in the general press, emphasizing the words: "Haredi thief!" or "Haredi crime!" people from the Haredi community in question immediately stood up and made a splash: "Audacity and audacity to write: 'Haredi thief!' Aren't there other thieves on earth? And why don't they write: 'Secular thief?'""
Today, we ourselves take care to emphasize the words: "A Haredi man was caught..." or: "Five yeshiva youths injured a police officer." "A resident of Modi'in Elite, Haredi, is suspected of...""
What is called: "Progress and openness are necessary for life." Or perhaps: shooting ourselves in the foot?
3.
Once, we were shocked with all our souls by the extreme extreme of anti-Semitism, by an insulting sentence from a Gentile towards a Jew, by a Gentile spitting on a Jew, by walking to the other side of the road so as not to cross in front of a Jew.
Every blatant behavior shocked us. We wrote about it in the press, we talked about it in the streets.
Today, when we ourselves throw objects at our friends from our meeting, spit in the direction of someone who is not our companion, spray tear gas in our quarrels, endlessly speak slander against each other - we are no longer shocked if a Gentile tramples on a Jewish object, or if a Jewish tombstone is smashed in a cemetery.
If we have reached such a level of lowliness of spirit, what will we demand from our haters and enemies?
What is called: "Violent controversy is a product of our time." Or perhaps: Are our senses dulled?
4.
Once upon a time, it was enough for someone to fall ill or die to shake the swordsmen's minds.
Today, if the dying man does not send his disabled wife, who will cry in front of the nation, and his children, who will explain with the sweetness of their baby lips, that there is no food in the house - no one will help.
To truly pity a person, he should not just die, he should die an original and unimaginable death.
In a fire caused by a match thrown by the neighbor, who lit the cigarette, who stole from the Arab worker.
Or in an accident where a tender baby is left alone in the world, without his father and mother, when both his uncle died a year earlier and his aunt is disabled and unable to raise him.
Just a simple death, as if none of us are interested. We need to decorate it with picturesque decorations, otherwise it will pass by in a flash.
What is called: We are the teachers of disasters. Or perhaps: Woe to us, what has happened to us?
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I try to console myself with comfort:
If today we react differently, speak differently, understand differently - then we probably also feel differently.
And I immediately answer myself: Or not!
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