Q&A: Why Did You Call Them Drugged?
Why Did You Call Them Drugged?
Question
Peace be upon you.
In the article about the המשפט system, you wrote about Irit and Arel that they are drugged. What did you mean by that? Do you have some appreciation for them, but also a disagreement, or only contempt? I’d be glad if you could explain in detail, and examples too if possible.
Thanks in advance, Naveh.
Answer
I do not despise stupid people. Each person has whatever gifts he was given. I despise intelligent people who behave in a stupid and tendentious way (see the column). I wrote that in order to say that they act as though they were drugged, unable to see the reality around them. There is no point in bringing examples here, since almost everything they say in the media (I mean, of course, what they say around the current controversies) is like that. See column 545, in the section "Two Remarks on Style."
Discussion on Answer
If you know, then what’s the question? You know I don’t mean contempt for stupid people.
Segal too, and Irit Linur as well, are intelligent people, and that’s why it saddens me so much that they are captive to an agenda and one-sided in political matters.
Even if they want dialogue (and even that seems to me like lip service, just so they can claim that the protesters are the ones preventing dialogue and attack them for it), that is only in order to prevent a split. They are incapable of seeing that the protesters’ claims have real substance, or in general that anyone who says something against Bibi and the Likud may have a point.
But really this discussion is uncomfortable for me, both because it is about the person rather than the issue, and because these are people whose opinions are not all that important.
Regarding the two remarks on style, I already saw that. I know that’s how you see things, and that’s why I asked.
You wrote in parentheses that you meant their remarks around the dispute, so in other matters what do you think of them? Second question: what about their approach to the reform is a drugged approach? After all, they also want there to be dialogue with the left-wing camp.