We live in a challenging time.
And when I write 'challenging', it's just because the period requires me to use make-up to cover up the real feelings.
The truth is that we live in a completely crazy period, where words have more weight than reality, where reality is a parallel and rather unnecessary universe.
It is said that many people are half comforted, so here I am, coming to comfort and say that we are not alone, and the troll of the "Shikhadosh" - the customer concept from George Orwell's founding book, "1984" - hurts dozens of Western countries.
In France, for example, one of the country's major dictionaries inaugurated this week a new word, IEL, which describes "a subject (singular and plural third person) used to refer to a person of any gender."
Kind of is yam, but without the dots.
Troll, have we already said?
Back to Israel.
It would be too easy to reduce it to weightless words and uncovered promises made by Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, or to the fiery but contentless speeches of Deputy Prime Minister Yair Lapid.
To me, these are just symptoms.
Our world is sick.
It requires the "enlightened" or the "normal" to choose their words with paralyzing, literal, and at the same time mercilessly attack those who do not draw a line.
Whereas this disease would have missed our country - I was deaf, but unfortunately, these evil spirits have already reached the shores of our country, and like everything we have managed to perfect them.
Because not only have the "bastards" changed the rules of the game while on the move, they also get referees on the field - in the justice system and in the media - who are mostly all ardent fans of their team.
And the results are in front of you: a hollow and feather-weighted leadership discourse, an entire public that no longer believes a word of what its leaders tell it and then, in response, extremes the discourse to grab headlines.
In fact, there is a pendulum movement here: we are asked to maintain a superhuman level of mismatch between what we experience and see and how we describe it in words. A woman is no longer a woman, a nation is not a nation, an attack is not an attack and anti-Semitism is not what you thought. Say "thank you" to the Turkish president, who hired a captive Israeli couple and kindly released them after more than a week.
Words like sand.
Words like an hourglass, which counts the time we have left until nothing will have a grip on reality anymore.
And it hurts the soul.
Because man must have some kind of backbone, solid ground, certainty.
And it also makes good people exaggerate in their words and reach high and disrespectful tones.
Also to, so to speak, give weight to what they say.
Let them listen to them.
To their pain.
And especially so that they will believe them.
Because it is not possible for a person who cries out for the blood of his heart to just try to turn us around.
All this discourse is unhealthy, for anyone.
But it is a direct result of the diet that our government members have forced on the words they use, until they have no weight at all.
If we want to heal the political and social discourse in this country, it would be good if we start respecting the words that come out of our mouths and the reality they describe.