How History Will Actually Judge Us

This was inspired by Yuval Noah Harari's latest speech in Tel Aviv yesterday evening. His main message for the big crowd was "either stop the reform, or we'll shut down the country." I don't want to make this about him, but I do want to note how in English he presents himself as this super-conscious intellectual. In Hebrew though, his true self comes out. (Link to YouTube clip)

My Commentary

In general, the ideological struggle in the world has always been divided around two forces generally called, right and left. The right is a part that tends to compromise because of its understanding of its own limitations. In contrast the left considers itself the brains of the operation, who understands what should be, and how it should be. Each on their own cannot build a complete situation, so the results look like they are at the moment. In our optimal and advanced state we'll have to find the synthesis between them, and only then will we be able to start a new path.

But until that happens, first we need to understand what we're really dealing with. At the moment everyone is busy fortifying their position, while hate and division keep spreading. The only reason we're managing to hold things together is because the ego obliges us to be together. In other words, it imposes its power on us and we don't control it like we think we do.

So the current drama playing out is a situation where everyone loses - Israel's security, Israel's economy, quality of life and more. All this will go down.

This reminds me of a story I came across recently:

A story about someone who covets everything he sees, and the jealous person who is always jealous of what the other has, even though he doesn't need it. But he doesn't want anyone else to have it either.

They walked together, and on the way the king struck them. He said to them, one of you will ask me for something and I will give it to him, and then I will give the other double of what I gave to the first. The one who covets wants two parts, so he didn't want to ask first. And the other also didn't want to ask first, because he is jealous of his friend, theoretically getting double what he was given.

Finally the one who covets urges the jealous one to ask first. What did he do? He asked to have one eye gouged out, so that the king would give the other one double and he would have both eyes gouged out.

The moral of the story: Israelis are known to be bold and opinionated. So for anyone expecting compromises or miracles - it won't happen here. In our current state we're ready to sell the country, or do anything that doesn't involve compromising. So based on how we're living these days, there's no chance we'll ever reach a settlement. But we're definitely on the way to self-destructing.

Let's hope that these struggles will accelerate the birth of a new way of life called the middle line.

The middle line includes both the right and the left, but it is already called by a new name, the middle line. It is clear to me that it will take more time and that it is still ahead of us, but we need to know what we are dealing with, and what we are heading towards.

In a nutshell, we're heading towards a new way of life with new values where we'll begin to rebuild ourselves according to a common denominator. What does this mean? That all our differences and former clashes will be swept aside, and discussions that will be started will be based on a common denominator. This is how we'll gradually grow the circle, and then we'll be in a better position to verify some things. We do all this in exactly the same manner we apply to building every process in life, from the light to the heavy.