In every extroverted mockery lurks some kind of hidden envy.
This is why more than once, when we try to ridicule someone, we actually make him grow a little bigger.
In the cultural field in particular, cartoons have a tendency to stand up for their creators, and "Wonderland" provides a wealth of proof of this.
After turning the levels and turtles into familiar figures in every home and the misery of MPs' lives reorganized as a cult comedy, the writers set out to give a similar treatment to the high-tech bubble.
The fictitious start-up company Webos is not only the only good thing in the current season of "Eretz", it is also an accurate record of the current moment in the life of Israeli society.
The character of the desperate entrepreneur, played by Udi Kagan, may have started as pathetic, but it can be assumed that it will be the most popular costume on the upcoming Purim in Herzliya Pituach and Ramat Hachayal.
It seems that the foreign minister's future vision, about a million high-tech workers in Israel, is a direct result of watching sketches produced by his previous workplace.
The strong desire of the Minister of Education, who is also a graduate of the Channel 12 broadcasting board, to promote an education reform whose material goals are clear, must also depend on a renewed vision of the schools.
These are no longer a creative home for the soul of the nation, they are at most the starting point of the future high-tech nation.
Any student can understand what is behind the reform in the matriculation exams, which the Minister declared last week.
The new program creates a hierarchy of subjects that conforms to the new materialistic vision: In subjects with practical appeal such as mathematics and English, students will be tested in external exams that require extensive preparation and success is not guaranteed, while in literature, history, citizenship and the Bible final grades will be given Similar to similar and forgotten revolutions of previous education ministers, the program will yield a short-term populist exit, but the far-reaching implications of changing educational values must be borne in mind.
There have always been frameworks in the Israeli education system that saw their vocation as purely professional.
Vocational schools have trained skilled artisans, but the system as a whole has sought to produce curious and knowledgeable graduates whose world is not as narrow as the world of a working ant (and they have also heard of the poet responsible for the image).
The matriculation reform is about to turn all educational institutions into vocational schools.
Although high-tech jobs enjoy a more glamorous image than the livelihoods of yesteryear, as in the sentence attributed to George Bernard Shaw, the principle is already clear, all that remains to be argued is the level of salary.
The irony is that those who once proudly carried the banner of humanistic education are now filling their mouths with water.
The voice of pedagogues, representatives of streams of education who proudly waved the banner of the search for values of morality and justice, is not heard.
Reconciling them with minimizing the value component in education will lead to the creation of a generation capable of “making relaxation” to Silicon Valley, but having difficulty understanding human values, works of art, social revolutions, and attaching importance to them.
Thus the Ministry of Education leads the students to blind worship of the golden calf.
If he succeeds, they will also never know what the source of the phrase is.
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