News

My campaign to produce Shakespeare's Sonnets: A Graphic Novel Adaptation needs your help! Please sign up at https://www.patreon.com/fisherking for access to exclusive content and the opportunity to be a part of the magic!

I'm also producing a podcast discussing the sonnets, available on
industrial curiosity, itunes, spotify, stitcher, tunein and youtube!
For those who prefer reading to listening, the first 25 sonnets have been compiled into a book that is available now on Amazon and the Google Play store.

Monday, July 18, 2011

on the importance of cheese

while we were sleeping, we lost our status as viable democracy. a few weeks ago the people of this great little nation won a major battle, by boycotting cottage cheese until the price dropped.

this new law is really tricky stuff: on the one hand i agree with shutting down anti-israel sentiments, on the other... who's next? how does my country see me, personally? i'd like to think that my country considers me a contributing citizen, but i've seen too much evidence to the contrary.

watching the police beating a student for protesting חוק האברכים* taught me a very big lesson: this is not a democracy. heck, the biggest decision maker in this country, ש"ס, isn't the voice of the majority. it's the voice of the one group of people that *doesn't* pay taxes and that *doesn't* accept israeli sovereignty.

so when things go wrong and i decide that i want to say something - who's going to protect my freedom of expression? i've already had a run-in with the authorities because they suspected me of sharing national secrets with foreign agencies... because i have foreign friends. let's just say that i'm not a big believer in the fairness and intelligence of our security services.

how to detect potential fascism

"מוכן לדאוג לקוטג', אבל לא לבית"
"i'm ready to fight for cottage [cheese], but not for my home"


* the protest was on behalf of all taxpayers - including the police who abused us. the fact that we were so few is embarrassing.

No comments:

Post a Comment

Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.