Opinion | Lamentations of the Brontosaurs: Nahum Barnea Refuses to Move Israel today

It turns out that there are few in the State of Israel who see Gideon Saar's new and dangerous censorship law as great news.

They can no longer count the seconds until it finally passes, and then - then the booming Israeli society will be saved.

Their most prominent and vocal representative to date is the lead columnist for the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper, Nahum Barnea.

This week he wrote an overflowing column on Saar, which he calls "the knight of social networks," no less.

In the column itself, one of the most embarrassing I have seen in recent years, Barnea weeps, a prophet proves at a gate like his, the fact that unlike him, even uncultured primates were given keyboards. And what do you know: they can write anything they want, including - hold on tight - their very, very wrong opinions and also swear (danger!). "The damage that this culture causes to the political discourse," lamented Barnea, "education, logic ...". This is how Barnea goes on to describe the dangers looming before us. The next day, it aired on Gali Tzahal, where he continued to defend his column vigorously, and managed to embarrass even more.

According to him, only a thin and high-quality stratum in Israel, a stratum called "journalists", is allowed to express different opinions on matters of the world.

"We, the professional journalists," Barnea said, with his self-awareness index calibrated to zero, "are trying to deal with reality not in 100 or 50 words that are mostly curses, but in 500 words, the opinions we formulated while studying the subject!" .

Do you understand, ignorant tweeters who are busy cursing and analyzing, and more in 50 words?

You are not capable of dealing with reality, analyzing it and also controlling the data at the same level that a snowflake like Nahum Barnea is capable of.

He later could not resist lamenting that social media brings a man like Yaakov Bardugo to the IDF waves. Cursing, Beast, Monkey.

Let's leave the fact that Barnea insists on entering the awkward uncle's niche that screams from the balcony at today's youth. We will also ignore the variety of journalistic ducks in which the man who "formed opinions and studied the subject" was caught, and women on the side also pure misogynistic history such as describing the body of a MK and the nickname "Shelly Yachimo-Beach" (emphasis on the word bitch), and many more. Barnea is not trying to be like me and get likes. He does not have a profile on social media (because everyone has a newspaper today anyway). This happens because in his anxiety, after many years of leading public opinion, establishing facts and dictating political moves, Barnea and the rest of his generation, brontosaurs of the generation of the elephants in their own eyes, found that they had become irrelevant. And even - what do you know - criticizes him.

About a decade ago, for those who remember, before the flowering of social networks, Barnea wrote it against the "talkbacks" who dared to criticize him.

"My stupid ten-year-old," he called to them.

Barnea longs for the days of exclusive control of the media, before all the Schwarze Chai came and drank his champagne.

Ahh, the young people of today. 

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