Neta Barzani is organizing a five-day wedding in Dubai - screamed the gossip circles.
Now, ignore the question "Who is this woman?", leave logistics and procedure, and concentrate on the fact that in our time a reality show wedding is a closed club for the able-bodied.
To be included in the close circle of someone like Barzani, to dance at her wedding and make happy a groom in a suit, a bride in a suit and a Burj suit, you need a liquid bank account and the ability to freeze life for a week.
This is not a wedding that you close with a check for a double HI and cut home after the desserts to release the babysitter; for Barzani's event, the "Race to a Million" finalist, you must invest a fortune, and in return you will be given the right to show off the right side.
On the same ball, people live happily, who pour money on the pleasures of life, document them on Instagram and poke their eyes out at the ordinary people, who live on the dark side of the overdraft and don't even dare to aspire high so that they won't be charged a dream commission by the bank.
The right to show off.
Neta Barzani, photo: Kafir Ziv
The disparities splash through the television.
"Dubai Bling", for example, is a popular trash show that appeared on Netflix last month and features Malaysian women from the Emirates, who show off an ornate and dazzling lifestyle.
One of them, say, wore a necklace worth 2 million dollars at her wedding, another goes on helicopter dates.
There is also "Real Housewives: Dubai", which is broadcast on the !E channel, and is essentially the same series.
The admiration for money crosses religions and sectors.
For example, the Jewish pompousness of Gloria Hart, a former ultra-Orthodox, in "My Life: From Hala to Actually", the second season of which arrived on Netflix this weekend, or local productions such as "Ma'osher", "Habozglos", "Peripheria Imperia", "Raphaelis" and also the tortillas from A wonderful land." Go inside, there is a parallel world that lives on a cloud in heaven - and is disconnected from the ground.
From "Dubai Bling",
"Bling bling, diamonds", as Noa Kirel sang, is a term that describes such women.
"Bling" is the sound made by jewelry rubbing against each other.
"Bling" is the noise made by a hollow woman who walks on heels, her jewelry is bling, and she draws attention to her injected face in the room.
The world of bling is built on the worship of materialism.
His cultural heroes signal that the important values are money, power and respect.
And you know what's the craziest?
The richer and larger than life we become, the more hundreds of thousands of followers we gain on the networks.
Then, suddenly, the lavish lifestyle is served for free, and they are even paid to document their lives and tag the sponsoring brands with it.
All this is happening when the cost of living is breaking records.
Guy Lerer is fighting over the increase in the price of tuna, and Barzani is flying to get married in Dubai.
People don't finish the month, and others shower with bottles of Chateau Lafite.
The class gaps have widened and the gulf between them is frightening.
Empowerment of the bling culture.
From "Dubai Bling", photo: courtesy of Netflix
And the TV only intensifies the bling culture.
So for such an alternative reality we should strive?
And do the gaps between opulence and abundance and poverty and austerity fuel indifference, or rather cook feelings of frustration and disgust?
"They say that jealousy makes people lose their minds," claims Farhana, a ground-breaking Instagram host and star of "Dubai Bling".
"If they can't accept what you have - they'll be jealous. They'll talk dirty about you. That's why they say bad things about us."
And so live, side by side, two distant and opposite classes.
The wealthy versus the everyday people.
These live in a golden cage, and these build the cages.
The rich have the money, and others have everything else.
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