על ענת קם, חירות ודמוקרטיה
חברים יקרים, למי ש(עדיין)חושב שיש כאן דמוקרטיה, מכל סוג שהוא, מומלץ שיקרא את הבדיחה הבאה, In an old joke from the defunct German Democratic Republic: A German worker gets a job in Siberia; aware of how all mail will be read by the censors, he tells his friends: ‘Let’s establish a code: if a letter you get from me is written in ordinary blue ink, it’s true; if it’s written in red ink, it’s false.’ After a month, his friends get the first letter, written in blue ink: ‘Everything is wonderful here: the shops are full, food is abundant, apartments are large and properly heated, cinemas show films from the West, there are many beautiful girls ready for an affair-- the only thing you can’t get is red ink.’ אם-כן: The structure here is more refined than it might appear: although the worker is unable to signal that what he is saying is a lie in the prearranged way, he none the less succeeds in getting his message across-- how? By inscribing the very reference to the code in the encoded