get a life bitch ..

dak mhux crime hux?

you are just one big joke …

Yes, it had to be Mark Anthony Falzon to mention it. He’s the only switched-on writer apart from our national Daphne. And he’s an academic, which makes him even more exceptional.

Labour managed to pepper the Island with ugly monuments; one such monument was mentioned by Mark Anthony Falzon in yesterday’s column on STOM: the Helsien monument in Birgu.

EGGS-actly!

Mintoff forever destroyed this people’s aesthetic values.

Thus we build illegal shacks on public land, because we fail to see how this ruins the landscape, or how it is profoundly uncivil. We shout in enclosed spaces, because we fail to notice how it disturbs the peace.

We smile at rogues, because the law, supreme upholder of civilisation, means nothing to us. We speak and write horribly because, and I quote from this very blog “nikteb kif irrid”.

We covered this island with large square things which we call houses, because hey, who gives a shit about the beauty of our homeland? Imbasta niftahru kemm ahna patrijotti.

Other countries went through dictatorships, but managed to hang on to their aesthetic values. In any case they had a long and deep history, with all its cultural artefacts, to fall back upon when freedom was finally regained. They could, in short, rebuild a civilisation.

We had nothing. So when 1987 came along, we just muddled on. Fast forward to 2012 and our “knee-deep” ugliness of the spirit and of the mind.

It can only get worse. There are only two solutions:

1) If you have money, barricade yourself off from the rest of Malta, live gracefully among your social peers, surround yourself with beauty and take frequent trips abroad.
2) If you don’t have money, emigrate.

[Daphne – I didn’t write it.]

[Daphne – I didn’t write it. It says so up at the top.]

And that is what people like us should strive for.

Beauty is but the splendour of truth.
Sometimes it’s unbearable, so much more intense than the insidious squalor.

Mintoff hated beauty, he was to all intents and purposes, un senzaDio, being such, he could never elevate himself to her grace. Bniedem bla grazzja.

The destruction of human rights, the economy, our links with the outside world, the rise of the political underclass and everything else happened because he destroyed our sense of what should be NORMAL. The beauty of things.

Governments can be changed, but aesthetics, once destroyed, cannot be regained. Which is why Malta is in such a sorry state.