Very well said…make sense

I hope you are just being sarcastic because you really cannot be serious.

I hope you’re joking.

I saw the benefits yesterday and the day before…a 24-hour power cut in Gzira, where I live.

With whom? About what? Can you be specific and try to ‘refresh’ your memory for the benefit of all others, please?

Mur tn*jjek.

I remember it well. Not just because he made an ass of himself. It was because of those flimsy clip-art-esque charts he produced while trying to distract everyone with that weird smile of his.

I remember thinking, “There is no way anyone is going to trust this guy after showing those bits of paper”. To which someone told me, “Those bits of paper are going to make him very popular with his supporters because they like that sort of thing.”

And it’s true, they did.

I think that what we are seeing with this oil deal is a mixture of that attitude and one of the many flaws of the “think positive” social conditioning.

This oil deal, like those flow charts, exists only on paper and have absolutely no intrinsic value, in the sense that they do no represent anything real or tangible. “Look we got an oil deal”, they shout. No they didn’t, they got an oil deal for no oil. Three cheers for them then.

But it gets worse. Their “Think positive” mechanism is going to tell them not to be so negative about it all. “Look, we got the deal, it’s right here in front of your eyes.” they insist. “But there is no oil”, you will say only to be met by the “Stop being so negative”.

Yes, because being positive is about ticking boxes. It’s about showing rather than actually having, a fact I find so interesting seeing as “The Secret” philosophy is about encouraging what scientists call “Synthetic Happiness” which is not the same as ” Natural Happiness”- that feeling you get when you get what you want.

So here is a question I would like answered. Since getting oil from Libya is getting less and less probable, has the Prime Minister signed another agreement equally as good with a country that actually has oil, lest we end up with no oil and forced to buy oil in the last minute and probably in such a fit of desperation that we would have to say yes to any price?

Tajba gallettu – u kemm gbartu flus minghand Ghaddafi dak iz-zmien?