Minister Karai, hello.
I need to talk to you about something really important that you have the power to do, instead of closing "here" in our face.
You can close something else, which will give you all the noise you want, the public support and also strong opposition - everything a politician who wants to be seen as doing needs.
I want to formally suggest that you do something that will fix a generation.
No less: close the porno.
Minister, Israeli children are exposed to porn at the age of 8. Also in your family.
It ruins their lives.
They think that their immature teenage relationships are movie productions like the ones they watch in the darkness of their room with the door locked.
This is how they photograph girls in the act of innocent love, distribute to friends, it goes viral, the girl is finished.
Her dying years passed.
And there are the girls and boys who sell their videos to porn websites doing things that are not suitable for their age, and become prostitutes and digital whores.
They make a fortune, and lose the soul.
Please see videos with their testimonies in the excellent campaign of Ohad Azran's digital forum and the national student council, which appeared on the networks this week.
horrors
Minister, close the porn for minors.
Don't believe it's impossible - of course it is.
Content can be filtered intelligently, artificial intelligence learns not to allow children to surf porn from the phone.
And from the computer.
And they will tell you - they are smarter than you, they will overtake easily.
Listen, there are 8200 veterans on both sides, may good prevail.
Minister, it is possible, and you will be called "Iran", and you will be denounced, but you will act with the power of goodness to save this unfortunate generation from the global porn industry, which destroys the human ability to experience simple, emotional, respectful, attentive, loving intimacy.
And this is not fate.
Do what your predecessor hesitated to do and divert the fire there, because I think you understand that the cultured population of the country will fight the corporation seriously.
By the way, listen to the podcast of Omar Ben Robi and Eran Litvin, "Central Station" about the history of the Mizrahi singer in the country, and tell me who would have broadcast it if not for the corporation.
You cut your own branch.
An entire generation in the country lost the most precious to them.
his imagination.
I lost mine at the age of 16, when I saw for the first and only time what was then called "blue tape".
It changed something in me after five seconds.
Daily exposure to these substances with constant exaggeration to provide stimulation changes the brain forever.
Close the hatch.
And know that anyone who opposes this initiative is a porn addict.
Illustration: Yehuda Nuni, Nuni-art.com,
garment
I went to the mall, to grab a share of the end of season sales that didn't happen.
Sad that there is no winter, feeling unhealthy.
You need this cycle, freeze and thaw.
That's how sweet fruits are.
And here, the chains are stuck with excess goods that have not been bought, and the spring models are coming soon, and you need to make room - so come on, take it.
People took it seriously.
There are fewer attacks on bread trucks in Kiev than on Castro.
As if they had been walking around naked until now, and now the opportunity to get dressed appeared.
Grabbing fabrics, piling them from everything nearby and leading to the den, to the closet bursting with last season's fabrics.
We will be in an abnormal situation in the world, where we are invited to prom with cheap clothes and are required to change our wardrobe twice a season, but there is always someone who pays the price.
We are told that clothes can be recycled and sent to those who need them, but in practice Africa is being flooded with mountains of fabrics that no one needs, and creating a crazy environmental hazard there that is only built on the Western addiction to clothes.
In short - I turned around and left.
I fight for the house, but not for pants.
I'm tired of clothes.
Until recently I was a well-known dresser.
My floral shirts gained a name and status among the peoples, many of my blouses were employed by many great dressers, who knew what made me happy and provided me with the drug.
More and more clothes, each time something different, a surprise, a steal.
It was like that in my life too.
Aroni Zahar is colorful, the possibilities for combinations were endless.
And then I ran out.
I lost my passion.
Since then, working in television I always wear the same thing - a white shirt and a black jacket, and gym shorts underneath.
easy.
I decided to focus my wardrobe at home on some comfortable, soft and pleasant clothes, and go only with them.
release everything else.
and so it was.
I gave away all my colorful clothes and my fringed shoes to people who were happy with them.
I was left with a gray and black wardrobe, everything suits everyone, there are no choices.
There is one gray corduroy for meetings and going out, there are black pants for training and a gray sweatshirt for home, and five super-cozy shirts from a brand I recently got to know - I won't mention the specific name, but say that for people like me, for whom cozy fabrics are a necessity and prickly tags are a bitter enemy, it's perfect.
And that's it.
I gave up on getting dressed.
Always the same, wash-wear.
what a relief.
The textile race through the house to the recycler is over.
The fights, the adjustments, the falling out, the desire to please are over.
Allowing myself comfort before everything and instead of everything.
And also friendly to Africa.
And the answer to the riddle "gray on the outside, colorful on the inside", is - me.
shhhhhh
In these noisy days, a person needs something to reduce the noise in his ears.
Everyone shouts so much, reality is so loud.
The news and the shows, and the networks and the motorcycles, and the planes, and the roads, and the sirens and the shouts.
It is difficult for the hearing person at this time.
And here, a not really new invention came into the world, which is now spreading rapidly: noise-cancelling headphones.
Just as the High Court cancels laws, so they cancel sounds that reach them, on the grounds of extreme improbability. Practically, what they do is a brilliant thing. After all, a sound wave is a wave. Hence its name. It has a rising and falling shape. They said - like this? An inverted wave. After all, everyone knows how to produce an inverted wave. And so they did. They created headphones that hear the sound reaching the ear, and until it reaches the ear canal to the eardrum, they generate an inverted wave for it that ionizes it, that is, turns it into wine. It's like catching a mosquito in a second that he decides to drill into your flesh Interception at the moment of truth.
Illustration: Yehuda Nuni, Nuni-art.com,
I'll thank you and I won't be ashamed - I bought some for myself.
wonder.
When you put them on your ears, it feels as if the switch to the world has suddenly turned off.
stillness
There are sounds that do come through - speech, for example - but the constant hum of the world is completely gone.
Only in this second do we realize what kind of buzz we live in all the time.
And it affects our health without us knowing it.
And these headphones, which save me from leaf blowers, music at park parties and barking dogs, should be available to every citizen, not just those who can reach.
Silence in the ears makes silence in the head.
Under my firm leadership, such headphones will be distributed to anyone who wants them, and the country will be quiet.
And there is a development in Singapore, which has not yet matured, of windows that have a microphone and speaker on them and they cancel the voices from outside.
In the meantime, the ugly appearance of the device does not bring customers, but in the end someone will make it beautiful, and everyone will have it, and outside the world will hum - and in our house there will be silence.
I will pay any price.
And it's a shame that there isn't some kind of loudspeaker installed on the microphones of journalists interviewing public figures, which detects foolishness, lies, denial, injustice, and forgery, and an attempt to cover up professional incompetence in creating high-profile commotions, and cancels them as soon as they come out of the mouth, and the speaker speaks but his voice is not heard , and he stops talking, and considers what he said, and says it again, but this time Dogri.
How much noise do they make, as if this level of commotion is necessary for Israeli existence.
she does not.
Noise kills.
And if you want to put an end to this column, you will shove wool in the ear.
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