As if a few days ago

 

We went to the Cameri theatre to see "A few days ago" כימים אחדים . It is organized in a storytelling format about a family knot in the early Jewish settlement in Emek Yezreel. It is extremely well done, with superb actors and professionals. I enjoyed it. 

I am Hungarian Jew and the early settling of Palestine is not my background, but after fifty years in Israel, the national folklore is almost mine. Like Americans adopting the cowboy hero myth, or now, the Southern plantation myth. Myths are myths, the real cowboys were Mexican farmhands ("boys") and plantation owners took good care of their expensive workforce. 

There were two or three old Russian songs that are identified with the early pioneers,  yet contemporary Russians never heard of them. Now they are Israeli folklore and "touch" me too.

Interesting what is NOT in the play. It takes place in Israel before the independence, but not one word about Zionism or patriotism. Second, there are no Arabs in Israel in the play. Those were the times of the big Arab revolt, but the farmers never heard of it.  

 

Revolution

Two hundred years ago, African slaves took over the rich half-island of Haiti and expelled the Europeans. The place became dirt-poor and unlivable. The process has reached the USA and the State of Georgia is now ruled mostly by Africans with disorderly lives. It makes me think that history is not proceeding as expected.  

Deep State (Argentina) vs. the Peronist Party

 

Argentine Judiciary sentenced the powerful Vice President and leader of the ruling Peronist Party to six years in jail. She is guilty of stealing billions of State monies. "The Parallel State and the Judicial Mafia condemned me", she said, "They are trying to cancel the Peronist Party". 

Argentina's hundred-year-old struggle between the 

Bourgeoisie

 and the destitute majority. The poor have no confidence in a serious, liberal government. Every time the Peronists were out of power, the government imposed cruel austerity measures on the poor, even famine. Peronism is a kind of populism that stole much public money but also took care to feed the poor. The outlook for Argentina is not good.

Pobre pais!

Quantum Fields of Gold

I never made promises lightly

And there have been some that I've broken
But I swear in the days still left
We'll walk in fields of gold
We'll walk in fields of gold

(Sting)

Fun and Entertainment

I spent almost a day in bed (backache). Read an old textbook on matrices and reflected that this math area was developed 150 years ago when French and Scotts started to think about the properties of numbers. The next generation discovered that the universe strictly follows maths, from the temperature of faraway celestial bodies to rockets to the moon. The enigma of Newton's falling bodies has been solved: there are no gravitons nor gravitational waves, it is mass that changes the curvature of the spacetime membrane. As I walk on this membrane, my mass bends it. Illustration: Cirque du Soleil. All that follows numerical relations. I think we live in and are a mathematical simulation. It seems totally pointless but beautiful. Are we also just for fun and entertainment? 

SPACE PIONEERS

 

The ceremonial President of Israel, Adv. Itzhak Herzog, landed in Abu Dhabi. The tall guards in beige jalabiya are impressive. He lauded the cooperation in space exploration. "Our cooperation can turn our beautiful region into a global hub of climate solutions,” he said.

Mapping a hidden and improbable water supply piping

 

I had to do it on Saturday early morning because normally there is no parking in the area, not even illegally. Hard work in a hidden garden, and for this old fat Jew - dangerous too.