I will NOT attend, watch, listen or buy simply because some board of self appointed intelligentsia think it is. I know they’re trying to be hip, but if it’s going to be some 70’s ideological revival, heaven help us.

Anyone bothered with the Malta short film festival on TV? Painful.

The film ‘Raid on Entebbe’ springs to mind.

In the “creative context,” I suppose Doctor Muscat means (among other things) production companies like “Where’s Everybody” (which is not really a monopoly: there are so many other production companies and theatre groups in Malta’s free-marketplace).

It appears that Business Management Doctor Muscat does not believe in the Liberal economic policies of the market forces for the arts, or in the selection of artists, performers, and technicians. Instead, he seems to echo the traditional gripe of the MLP/PL masses: their often claiming exclusion from opportunity by discrimination, rather than the actual evaluations of individual skills and talents.

So, it seems that Muscat perhaps would not only like to eliminate some producers and create others, on a micro level he also would seem to insist that regarding the selection of talent everyone is equal.

Without Muscat’s definition of “monopolies,” whatever he may be saying is ridiculous, absurd, or dangerous.

Of course, the absense of clarity is consistent with the PL’s general non-definition of policies, where it always prefers to speak in generalities rather than in the details of specifics (unless details are removed from their rational context). This is emotive (not rational) politics.

In the entertainment business, competition is fierce; and there are opportunities for some (among the many), but achievement is never instantaneous (and always limited).

The arts should not be politicized or compromised by politics. However, the cultural worlds of the PN versus PL masses are not equivalent, irrespective of their respective educational and professional achievements. There are many PL supporters in Malta’s local arts scene.

My opinion is that the PL, generally, believe in conducting class warfare in Malta, while the PN, in general, believe in raising up Malta’s human capital.

And I believe that the PN policies can bring about true socio-economic progress. But cultural progress is something else.
Cultural change for the PL masses in Malta is still two generations away.

At the same time, Mintoffian political dinosaurs fear their extinction on both personal and cultural levels. So, the PL political battle in Malta appears to be a contest conducted on the basis of its belief and will to power, rather than on the basis of more rational critical analysis and discourse. Some would call this mad; others would call it “religion” or “faith”.

I prefer reading the reviews on Amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/review/R2JF7E91JJVHAT/ref=cm_cr_dp_perm?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B007J4T2G8&linkCode=&nodeID=133140011&tag=

http://www.amazon.com/review/R2HHBQETYNMKCX/ref=cm_cr_dp_perm?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B007J4T2G8&linkCode=&nodeID=133140011&tag=

“The good: Nice cover art. ” Ebeth822 (Tx)

Another is cleaning his ear of wax. And the fake blonde at the front is pondering whether to make the “hasla” or go to a coffee morning on Monday.

Creative indeed.

U l-mara ta quddiemu is very creative indeed with her choice of hair dye. Opal fruits orange.