The rampant cost of living
But who are these "weak" and what does this phrase even mean?
A semantic matter that has additional meanings behind it.
This "weak", an insulting expression in itself, is a sly one.
This discourse supposedly implies some immanent quality in that group, which is characterized by "weakness".
But what kind of weakness is this?
Is this a congenital weakness?
Maybe a physical or mental-cognitive disability, God forbid?
Obviously not, because then they would directly say "disabled".
So what is this weakness?
Were you born weak, and will you stay weak?
Say it out loud: these are poor people.
Now the question arises: why not just say "poor"?
Is it because of the politically correct culture, which may consider this to be an insulting expression?
On the face of it, "weak" is more insulting than "poor", so that doesn't seem to be the reason.
Well?
Aha.
"Poor" may imply, graciously, that it may not be their fault that they have fallen into a dire economic situation.
Perhaps "poor" may raise the thought that the state authorities should act so that there is not such a large layer of the poor, some kind of systemic action, beyond the band-aids of allowances and vouchers.
So that people do not suffer from poverty - and certainly not working people, whose salary is not enough to earn a decent living, or people who retired after working all their lives, and were not informed in time about the law of nature or the general rule that an old man in Israel is equal to a poor one.
But the problem is that everyone is locked in the closet of shame, and they don't dare to admit the truth: except for a certain stratum of people with extremely high salaries - let's say hiatists, members of the Knesset, judges, real estate investors who bought apartments at the right time and a few others - all working people from the middle class who live on salary have experienced a severe decline in the standard of living in recent times, and the feeling of economic anxiety about the future is not foreign to them. People who studied and acquired a higher education, maybe a bachelor's and master's degree, served in the army, worked hard all their lives - simply cannot make it through the month, and the situation is getting worse. Would anyone dare to call them weak? Of course not. But their strength, so to speak, is turning out to be a fake strength that has nothing to rely on. There is no safety net. But oh my, if you say that, they will mercifully think you are weak.
Because here in Israel - with high taxes, monopolies of food and basic products, costs of children's education, pig prices and monstrous costs of rent and mortgage repayments - it is not enough that they push you to the brink, from which it is like a step between you and the abyss - they insult you and claim that it is actually your fault.
This is a tactic of alienation, of "away and rule".
As if talking about someone else, to push the subject under a metaphorical cloak of disappearance.
Because a person is close to himself, and it is easier to see "them" as another type of people;
Perhaps in the recent tribal discourse it is supposed to be some exotic and remote tribe, the tribe of the weak or the "weakened".
Thanks for the "PC", but it's almost the same thing.
And as you know, if we don't have a problem - then we don't need to deal with it either.
Shame on you weaklings.
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