A society of lies

Since I am a retired but working man, I wake up very early and stay in bed thinking. The Friday edition of the fishwrap HaAretz we read is a totally untrue paper. For example, there are large pictures of black women in domineering positions, while in truth, in Israel we have very few Africans (about 1%) and most are small-bodied Ethiopians sweeping the streets. Simply, HaAretz reflects (1) American media, and (2) the untruth of that media. Another thinking point: Pliah Kotner. We lived in the same apartments house for twenty years and she went to school with my daughter. I used to meet her grandma, an Auschwitz survivor, and am friends with her parents. She married but vowed to have no children, you know, to save the environment. She turned to left-wing municipal politics and has been promoted to be in charge of Animal Rights. The right of street cats to be neutered humanely. A wasted life.  Another example: Israel is about to abolish exams. We do not want to hurt the feelings of those who fail so we lie and say that exams measure nothing. In our lying competitions, every one arrives first place. So we have lying doctors who know no anatomy, we are graduating lying civil engineers who cannot calculate.

The cause of this society of lies we are living in is Compassion. We are not able to tell African women that they are unattractive and ignorant. And they smell (in Brazil are more honest, and call it caatinga). We are unable to tell Philippine maids that we do not want them to stay in Israel and to have babies here, that we are Jews and they are not. They are human beings, sure, and possess human rights, but I do not want them in my synagogue. Sorry, we made a contract and it does not include that you will become an Israeli, however nice you are. We are different and want to stay so. But it is never said that in their face, on the contrary, we lie and lie and give them the impression that we want them. Our Western society's ideal is to be compassionate and never to insult anyone, we protect everybody's precious sentiments. This is a feminine thing, women are built like that, but you cannot live a life of lies for ever, at some point truth emerges. You know but you don't want to be there when it does.

I am not different and frequently, I too lack the courage to tell the truth and am humane and compassionate. We are only too aware that tomorrow we shall need compassion and help. I too sincerely feel compassion and do not want to insult and hurt good people. But as a society, we have moved too far and it will explode in our faces and we shall need to confront our hypocrisy. Good intentions, and we have them, will not be believed.  

I hoped that the constant Arab aggression and wars would protect us from this situation. But we had a few years of relative quiet, and the result is that women are taking over the universities, the bureaucracy, the army. We are compassionate and we are lying, the HaAretz lies about inexistent Israeli African beauty models, about imaginary Papuan genius scientists sending rockets to the moon. Children believe that it is real.