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At Tel Aviv University a few days ago I saw numerous lunatic students whose IQ had been stolen by Pokemon. As
someone who had encountered this “intelligent” game several days before, I wondered about the significance of
something that not only manages to take control of real space, but also totally controls what happens there; and
leads completely normal people to wayout places, inducing them to forget everything around them in favor of a stupid
hunting of imaginary characters. On the way, I downloaded the application in order to familiarize myself with the
material, but after several attempts gave up in frustration, thinking that any toddler could do much better than me. And
this made me think that all this business of 5 units mathematics is nothing more than the stupid idea of somebody
who doesn’t understand that someone who doesn’t go to school gets a lot further than someone who does. Fact – the
Wizard of Menlo Park - Thomas Alva Edison, managed to register no less than 1,093 inventions that lit up the world,
although he didn’t have even one unit mathematics, not to mention finishing second grade.
Whenever I come across a paradox to do with novelty, I communicate by séance with my grandmother who died long
before the cultural revolution of Regev, Smotritz, Hazan and Bennet, although she did have time to hum Buskila before
passing away. And she told me that it’s all about general knowledge; not mathematics, not Gemara, only general
knowledge you gain in the university of life. What do you mean, I wondered…and she continued unhesitatingly. “Poki”
is a young child’s fart, and “mon” in French means my. And this I can still manage to control somehow.
And seriously, there is still hope because in the introduction to the Zohar it is said that during the holidays the “Koidosh
Boruch Hu” comes down to fix his broken souls. Namely, it is he who breaks that must also fix. And from this one
can infer that the bored hacker who invented Pokemon is
the only one to fix the world. Evidently it’s a known fact
that someone like that is regarded by the police, security
services, and the Mossad as a potential redeemer of
Israel's problems and should therefore be paid as much as
he wants…as long as he isn’t from the minority, which is of
course a paradox, since a large number of them are bored
Arabs who don’t go to school because they don’t believe
in Bennet, knowing that the future lies in computers.
And with regard to architecture…more or less: in his
youth, Motti was educated at the Bnei Akiva Yeshiva in
Ra’anana; he holds a B.A. in Economics and Business
Management and finished a Director’s Course at Bar Ilan
University. He was Marketing Director of a Meat Company,
a member of the Board of Directors of World ORT…and
he is now head of the Regional Council of Lower Galilee.
Recently, when the heat and power of governing addled
his brain, he decided to forbid Arabs to enter swimming
pools in the region, because, "they have different hygiene customs". And he’s right! They don’t urinate in water like us;
they don’t smear but wash themselves, don’t pass on germs by shaking hands after their hand has just wiped their
lower orifice; and their sheets are too white because they don’t mix whites with coloreds.
Beyond the cynicism of someone who is chairman of the Local Planning and Building Council of the Lower Galilee,
I wonder if he knows that it was the Muslims who invented running water taps, and most of the important hygienic
customs, many of which have yet to reach the Wild West.
Ruchi, who is responsible for editorial sanity, says that I might be exaggerating a little, after all this is an innately racist
Council with only 18 Jewish settlements, (since, according to its webpage, there are no Arab villages in Lower Galilee);
that perhaps Smotritz was confused after a night of studying Torah and courtesy, when he said that Separation isn’t
Apartheid.
I admit that all this undermines the connection we take for granted between wisdom, the Jewish House (Party) and
culture. And that instead of teaching 5 points mathematics, we should encourage learning that there is a soul behind
every pair of eyes; even the sterile, modestly smiling chemists arouse respect across the counter in almost every
pharmacy.
P.S My grandfather was a Rabbi, and Claudine can testify that I am not just another left wing architect, but someone
who cannot remain indifferent to the stupidity harming what is left of the beautiful Israeli.
Architect Dr. Ami Ran
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