Of course you don’t feel a connection with people who define themselves as creatives – you’re a political columnist!

[Daphne – I am not only a political columnist, TL. That is only one part of what I do.]

That’s like me saying I feel no connection with builders, and using that to denigrate them. Whether you’re part of it or not, there IS a (small) society of people making their living in the creative sector. I am one of those people, so it’s naturally news to me that there is, apparently, no such thing as me.

I don’t consider myself an authority on anything, and as this exchange amply proves, you don’t gain status in Malta from what I do. I’m sorry to hear we bore you, but I don’t particularly care either.

[Daphne – I did not say that creative people do not exist. I said that there is no such thing as a ‘creative society’, and in fact there isn’t. The few painters and actors who hang about together do so because they like each other’s company, and not because they are a creative society. They are friends on the basis of their shared interests, just like people who, for example, enjoy tennis or bridge.]

Or rather, given that it’s Labour in Government – Good Friday, Bad Friday, Worse Friday.

What a farce.

We think it’s a giant farce, obviously. What’s with the ‘sneer marks’?

[Daphne – Well, TL, to misquote Margaret Thatcher, there is no such thing as a ‘creative society’. I don’t feel any connection, creative or otherwise, with many of the individuals who define themselves as being part of it. But that’s the field in which I work. I have no time for people who go about defining themselves by membership of this imaginary group, because they think it gives them some kind of special status and superiority. I mean no offence, but most of them are barely literate and poorly clued up. The ability to paint a picture (usually badly) does not make one an authority on politics, social issues or even architecture. They bore the socks off me.]

Good Friday, Better Friday and Best Friday.