Putting a figure on a poster drains him of personal content and makes him public property. In order to make him public property, certain personal characteristics that might get in the way are deliberately deleted, because public opinion polls show that the public “relates” to “simple” images and only identifies with the familiar. A wrinkle here, a scratch there, a little madness, a little violence −...
We are not all Moshe Silman
Turning the man who set himself on fire this summer into a symbol of the protest movement erases him as a human being.
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Alon Idan


