Escaping from the corruption, the shame, the stupidity and the evil around us, we escape every other night to a tv program of a dance competition of amazing famous people who learn to excel in musical movement over the months.  Not every one watches this kitsch, in fact most educated and respectable people stay away from tv in the first place, but we are glued to it, amazed how normal people can learn the contortions demanded of them – on high heels yet.  

Pure avoidance.  The helplessness of confrontation is too much to bear.  I cannot go to the West Bank and stop the marauding settlers.  I can and will do everything I can to change the situation, but it’s only in the ballot box that a change can be attempted.

People from other countries tell me that I don’t know the truth of what is happening here, but we do, we know far more than many others, because we recognize fake news with more accuracy that people more far away in more civilized countries, and we know just a bit more about how dancing with the stars is doctored, just as we know how much of the news that arrives in the foreign press is altered, and how it is close to the truth, but not really.