Harry Purdie,I take note of what you wrote about the genes ruling. I am not in a position to question what you say,as I know nothing on the subject. I accept what you say and bow my head to your knowledge.

So the bottom line is that there is no hope for Edwin Vassallo to come out of his stupidity. With this I agree completely.

“MPs are not the law. They make the law.”

Daphne Caruana Galizia, 2011

Even if you vote for a ‘yes’ candidate you are still voting for a NO party.

Ok, but don’t go complaining about the ambiguous politco-religious state of affairs we are currently in and the way our politicians give more political weight to their own faith rather than to society’s pursuit of equality and happiness as these are all direct results of Eddie Fenech Adami’s approach to politics in the 80/90s. You can’t have your cake and eat it too.

[Daphne – The confusion between church and state on the matter of divorce is the result of one thing alone: that the prime minister and some of his people (and also some of the MPs on the other side of the house) are unable to understand what the duty of a politician is when it come to legislate for divorce, and that their consciences simply do not enter into the equation except when voting in the referendum. That’s all. The LAW ITSELF allows for complete distinction between church and state in every area except marriage and indeed guarantees the right of freedom of worship. MPs are not the law. They make the law.]

Silvo, Daphne is correct. The genes rule. Why do so few Maltese have blue eyes? Genetics says that the dominant gene for eyes is brown. Called the the big ‘B’, the dominant gene. The ‘recessive’ gene, little ‘b’ (blue) needs both parents to have two little ‘b’ genes to create a child with blue eyes. Therefore, there is only one chance in în four for parents to produce a blue-eyed child. That is, if you have a little ‘b’ in your genes, plus your husband,

Same with stupidity..

But you can’t leave religion out of it as if it’s not there or something relatively new to him. Fenech Adami breathed and ate religion right from the very start and most of his decisions were consequential of his fundamentalistic reasoning – vide his shockingly absurd mid 90s treaty with the Church – and was unfit to run a secular state as a result. Your cherry picking the good traits from the bad ones doesn’t quite cut it. Khomeini was also intelligent and probably witty too but you cannot leave out his obsession with religion when judging his political life, can you?

[Daphne – I don’t leave it out. In response to somebody else, I wrote that Fenech Adami’s political motivation was always religiously inspired and that he derived his strength and drive from religious faith. This was copiously evident in the 1980s, when the fight against Labour was the fight against Evil, and rightly so. He was the Man of the Hour precisely because of his religious faith. The last thing you needed in those days was yet another godless person who was not going to inspire 70,000 people to mass in protest against the godless government.]

Could you please decide?

Is it Nature ( your mama’s stupid DNA) or nurture ( your environment not being sufficiently stimulating) which is keeping that peon stupid?

[Daphne – I’m sorry to have to tell you this, but if you can’t understand what I wrote here, then you must have the DNA for stupidity, not intelligence. Not that I hadn’t worked it out already, mind. And do yourself a favour and stop saying ‘peon’. You’re neither Che Guevara nor operating in his world, and it makes you sound like a bit of a sad pr**k with a Hasta La Victoria Siempre poster on your (single) bedroom wall.]

Daphne, your argument re; being born stupid is such a load of self-congratulatory crap that whoever writes such an “analysis” has their head so up their ass, that it’s in another time zone.

What your argument basically says is ” You little worm are useless to society. Your grandparents were stupid, your parents were stupid, you are stupid and your kids will be stupid. Now bow down and lick my intellectual boots, peon”.

[Daphne – I said nothing of the sort. So unless you are dead set on proving my point, I just cannot understand your hysterical, chippy reaction – including your off-the-wall equation of what you would probably call ‘high class’ with intelligence and – this is you, not me – stupidity with peasants. Intelligence is not a function of social class, and that is especially not the case where social classes were rigid, so that you could not move in or out regardless of your intelligence and abilities. With the increased social mobility we have seen over the last 20 years, thanks to the centre-left, liberal and forwarding-looking education, economic and foreign policy (EU membership) of the Nationalist government, rather than the socialist rubbish you support, intelligent people of all backgrounds are moving onwards, upwards and especially outwards. The daughter of one of my neighbours – an illiterate peasant, if you must insist – is now a high-flying media company executive in London. And the daughter of another – a vegetable grower – is a whizz at languages, and will graduate in German. People like you, on the other hand, will get nowhere because you are far too busy seething with resentment at your perceived low station in life and at what others have achieved through what you think are connections and social status.]

It amounts to nothing more than a modern day serf-feudal lord relationship, a modern day ” white man’s burden”. “Stay in your little world, boy, your parents were too stupid, and you are just like them. You can never better yourself, you were doomed as soon as you were conceived”

For a woman who describes herself as a Liberal, you restrict Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness only to the “right crowd”.

[Daphne – I’ve been around long enough to know a prepared and much repeated spiel when I hear one, D. Azzopardi. This is the sort of repetitive rant that embyronic socialists or communists fixate on and drone on about as they begin to discover their political selves. At least have the common sense and good grace to acknowledge that I might have heard it for the first time around three decades ago, at sixth form, and now have little or no time for this kind of thing. These are the facts of the matter: stupid parents tend to have stupid children and intelligent parents tend to have intelligent children, and this regardless of social background. There are children from nice, middle-class Sliema homes who are as thick as bricks and there are children who grew up with pigs and cows who are now software developers and engineers. With social mobility the intelligent children of intelligent labourers are able to make much, much more of themselves than their parents did and so move out of the labouring classes. As social mobility increases and educational opportunities are broadened and become more far-reaching, this process of intelligent children leaving their labouring class roots behind increases exponentially, leaving an underclass of what are – sadly but inevitably – the ones who couldn’t move out because they didn’t have what it takes. They continue to have children with each other, increasing the problem. And then you get sink estates full of people like Vicky in Little Britain. The ultimate effect of extreme social mobility is NO social mobility: everyone who can move up and away does so, while those who can’t are fossilised in their situation. Malta hasn’t reached that situation yet but will have done so within a generation.]

And I don’t mean what you describe as the “Sliema type” That kind of person is an anachronism in ANY other modern European society.It is beyond the Beau Monde you would find abroad. Here, it is a mixture of British Upper Class, a Little Islander keeping up with the Joneses mentality, an arriviste “I made it” kind of braggadaccio and a little demi monde ( nothing Cocaine and Cuckoldry can’t smooth over).

[Daphne – You are not making sense. If you take me and Edwin Vassallo, for example, it should be quite obvious which one of us is the “anachronism in any other modern European society”. And I am 100% a ‘Sliema type”. I was born there and lived there for 26 years. The ‘keeping up with Joneses arrivistes’ you describe are just that: chavs. They are not from Sliema. They just buy flats there while all the real Sliema types flee in droves because they can’t stand them. In any case, I see it’s ‘let’s bitch about tal-pepe’ time again.]

This type of person, for all their travels, would just be laughed out of town in any other setting apart from Malta. Here, they are seen as people to emulate.

[Daphne – Every country has those sorts of people, but you appear not to know that. The trick is to avoid them, at home and abroad. And incidentally, only very simple societies are homogenous. I suggest you look at your insecurities and deal with them. Just don’t do it with a wig.]

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