The Ashkenazi Revolution

236nature-improvement projects, such as the draining of swamps or erectinglarge buildings. If we truly, and sincerely, wish to close the gap within oneor two generations, then there is only one way to do so: We must descend,greatly descend. We must cease reading serious books, minimize study,drastically limit the number of Ashkenazi children who attend middleschool and graduate from there to universities. Perhaps we must also beginto play the game of “backgammon” or other Mizrahi games of this sort andcategory. This is the only realistic way toward quick equality between theSephardo-Mizrahim and us. If we refuse to take this path, then we musttell the Sephardo-Mizrahim the truth. We must tell them that only a few ofthem, mainly the Ladino Jews, can be equal to us on the cultural level, andthat the large gap between us and the Sephardo-Mizrahi masses willcontinue to the end of days. We should not encourage baseless hope thatignites flames of hatred and jealousy, and the Ashkenazi political partiesmust cease playing the game of making cheerful announcements, which aremade with little thought. Together with this, we should prepare for thestorm of the Sephardic equality movement that will certainly arise. Whenthis storm surges across Ashkenazi civilization in the State of Israel, inorder to agitate it, we should deal it a final, fatal, blow.The flash point of Ashkenazi superiority, and of Sephardo-Mizrahiretardation, is in the sphere of the family. The Ashkenazi family is heavenfor a child, but the Sephardo-Mizrahi family is heaven for the father and thehusband. In the Ashkenazi family, the parents invest every effort for theirchildren, but the Sephardo-Mizrahi family sacrifices a large portion of thechildrens’ abilities upon the alter of satisfying the father’s ambitions. As itplaces the child at the head of its concerns, the Ashkenazi family puts itsemphasis on the future and it becomes a family of the future, but theSephardic family, which seeks to ensure maximum satisfaction for thefather, turns into a family of the present. But the present is a small amountof time and it is transitory. Therefore the Sephardic family, because of itsspecific structure, turns into a family of the past, to a family that dripsretardation. Only an amazing human revolution, taking place in theSephardic family, and changing the relationship between the parents andthe children, and between the parents and themselves, would be able to