Don’t be too hard on kev, Victor. I used to think exactly like him when I was in my late teens.

Then I slowly noticed that many of the people who cook up conspiracy theories do so just to be “anti-establishment” and, proclaiming that the foolish majority never look for evidence, hardly present any evidence themselves.

Don’t say that. You’ll have the conspiracy theorist on my back.

Iva gawdi xi haga sabiha u tajba fil-hajja kev.

Possibli lanqas dik il-hawha ma thollok?

Actually, Victor, I don’t just “know it all”, I actually understand how it works and why you people cannot really be blamed for being insufferable fools.

When you understand how it actually works you also come to understand that it could not possibly have been any different. You come to understand why the most intelligent people often fall victim of these layered lies.

You see, in order to analyse the news you need the facts. Now if you are fed lies and only lies, you can be a genius, but if you keep on relying on those lies your analysis will inevitably be wrong.

Truth is stranger than fiction, they say. And how true that is!

Understanding HOW it works is the key to understanding what goes on and who’s doing what. But that requires a lot of digging and a mind that is not set in concrete, as is the unfortunate case with Daphne Caruana Galizia, who wants to mock “conspiracy theories” without actually knowing what they’re all about ‘because they are too incredible to be true’, hence impossible, so why bother to investigate when you can just be prejudgmental about it and remain a fool.

[Daphne – No, we went with the standard ones. The more esoteric ones will have to wait.]

The one I recommend is on a corner in the central part of the Lane with windows onto the street that look as if it’s a railway carriage.

There’s a great general atmosphere around as well.

Gosh Kev, you really do think that you know it all, don’t you?

Impressive.