Scams, traitors, pickles, anarchists: over the years, the liberal public in Israel has gotten used to ignoring the imposition of negative labels and the systematic and escalating criticism against it. This public has become accustomed to withdrawing into the bubble of its private life, using mental defense mechanisms of fragmentation, denial and repression, at the same time and similar to the acceptance of the routine of dripping in the envelope.
As the public space became more and more oppressive, more and more alienated, more and more tainted, corrupt, fanatical and faded, we turned to relax in the capsule of everyday life into which we were supposedly led by choice, and within which we felt free and influential, ordinary and normal, reflexively closing their eyes to its dwindling into a marginal and shrunken space, emptied and hollow.