This week, "Betrayal of the Elites" was uploaded to YouTube, a two-hour film, and at the time of writing the column garnered almost 90,000 views.
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He documents a home circle in the living room of the philosophy professor Yosef Agassi's home and with him his former students, listening to the lecture of the doctor of philosophy Moshe Burnett.
For about an hour he has been showering them with boiling water, especially regarding the legal and media assassination carried out on former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
At the outset, Dr. Burnett compares the Netanyahu trial to the Dreyfus trial, arguing that it is an unprecedented event not only in Israel but also in the Western world, a groundbreaking event and a stain on Israeli democracy. We chose a Harvard and MIT graduate, a world-class statesman, a fighter in the General Staff Reconnaissance Regiment, says Brent, and you chose someone who does not have a high school diploma. This government, Brent says bluntly, "was born as a result of a government revolution and is illegitimate in my eyes."
On top of that, Brent accuses his friends of ignorance and being a victim of propaganda.
Propaganda in the Western world is aimed at elites, in order to preserve their power, Brent proves to the hearers.
The elites believe in biased and lying media, they have sided with anti-democratic forces and they are intellectually annihilating themselves.
"What saved Israel," Burnett said, "is the social networks," which exposed him and people like him, unwilling to settle for the dietary menu of the institutionalized media, facts and details about the coup d'état carried out in collaboration between the State Attorney's Office and the media, while closing eyes or cooperating. On the part of the elites.
And these, Brent promises, will be judged by history, and severely.
After the guys recover from the shock - immediately the blush rises in their cheeks.
Each in turn they respond to Brent's words and in a few minutes a great truth becomes clear: they do not get along with the strange beast called democracy.
One of them, the doctor of history, Yigal Ben-Nun, had already written a reasoned article in Haaretz in March this year entitled "Is the right to vote for every citizen really such a good idea?"
"In your eyes, the people are more important than anything else," says Dr. Ben-Nun (formerly of the Black Panthers, and today finds it difficult to get along with the right to vote).
That's wrong!
It's happening today.
it's dangerous.
Democracy in the basic sense of the word is dangerous.
The wisdom of the masses is the most horrible thing that can happen.
It is the elites who promote human society.
Nothing else!
The people can not control, the people do not know things.
Therefore, the story of trusting the people is a scam of certain elites. "
Psychologist Rafi Yaakobi commented: "I think Netanyahu was so narcissistic, and for the sake of populism he took the ultra-Orthodox into power - which is a catastrophe. The elite did not betray the people but lower the ship a bit for the good of the people, .
After him, the mathematician and doctor of philosophy Haim Asa showered his wisdom.
Among his duties was the National Security Adviser in the Rabin government.
He, too, finds it difficult to acknowledge the living, authentic existence of people who are not: "This people you are talking about, 40-30 seats, was born into the hands of one person: Menachem Begin."
Asa shook off his lair later when a wish was expressed for variety in the media.
"Why be diverse?"
Resented.
The tumultuous doctors who amused me because of their literary and cinematic quality.
I was also happy to see the dear Prof. Agassi, whom I remember from my distant studies in the Department of Philosophy.
But these are not exotic exemplars of academic detachment.
Their hatred of democracy and the people paves the way for dictatorial actions, such as the legal coup that transferred power from elected officials to the jurists, the filing of a precedent-setting indictment against Netanyahu, and the laws restricting democracy that the change government is now working on.
Justice Minister Gideon Saar passed on first reading the "Facebook Law," under which a judge can remove posts on networks and websites.
Without a backlash from the elites and without the silence of the media - such a law would have been denounced and its initiators despised in every news release.
Not this time.
The director general of the Ministry of Justice, Eran Davidi, defended the law this week in the High Court of Justice: In extreme cases. "
Davidi was the legal assistant of Aharon Barak, the man who handed over the dangerous democracy from the public to the "enlightened public" headed by Supreme Court justices, and the "horrible wisdom of the masses" of Dr. Ben-Nun - to fortified elites whose main excellence was to build centers of power for themselves. Wisdom and enlightenment.
Transport Minister Merav Michaeli, although not an academic elite but certainly greedy for power, also expressed support for the law: "In the past we thought the network would be the ultimate democracy, but we found out it did not. On freedom of expression. "
Networks are and more how the ultimate democracy.
They posed an alternative to the institutionalized media and gave here to the masses, without proofreading and without an editor.
They expropriated the information distribution monopoly from biased, sometimes lying, oligarchy, and opened the market for opinions and information to competition.
That is why the Facebook law was enacted - to dislodge the power from the people and return it to the dukes and counts.
Since they did not win an absolute victory, the elites sabotaged the foundations of democracy: the right to vote and to be elected, freedom of expression and the rule of law.
To secure their status, the media, academic and legal elites helped to corrupt the legal and media system.
Some in execution, some in encouragement and some in silence.
The elites did not betray.
They have never had a commitment to anyone, other than preserving the power of the clubs of which they are members, some of which exist in welfare at the expense of their public they despise.
The people certainly did not betray.
They have no idea who he is.
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