Evarist Bartolo at the same Leuphana meeting as Jeffrey POS: also banging on about Malta’s size and the Ottoman siege
You can see that the forma mentis of people like Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando Smith and Evarist Bartolo has been shaped by brainwashing at school, home, and muzew with obsessive talk of myths and legends, church and national identity, in a narrow culture with little or nothing to counteract it, and that their dealings with others and their life in general in adulthood have not broadened their outlook.
It is clear that they don’t consider themselves to be just another citizen of the world, just another European, but something outside it, and they wear their talk about national identity like a badge that declares them outside the mainstream while in negotiation with The Other.
I find this sort of thing painful to listen to.
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The dialogue is purely internal The ‘Other’ is the other self.
We must come across as grass-skirted, cave-dwelling wogs.
*Groan*
“We always believed that we are something special” – oh yes…
“We believe it, so it must be true” – This ‘lecture’ is an exposition of the general Maltese mentality.
“I find this sort of thing painful to listen to.”
And not just the content, but the delivery itself. Why is it so difficult for most Maltese to lose their horrendous accent?
Isn’t there anybody in his ministry who can write a proper speech for him? What an embarrassment.
This should have been a talk about Malta in 2050. Instead it is evidence that we have a government stuck in the 1950s. What a disastrous sales pitch. Such a shame. So mediocre. Can’t believe he shared the podium with Daniel Libeskind.
“Germany is a 1000 times bigger than Malta but we have six times more people than you because of the density of the population”
Er?!
“Malta is made up of five islands and the first one is Filfa”
Really?!
“You don’t have to go to University to be clever, creative and inventive” because one of the residents of Comino without tertiary education managed to build a crane to lift his boat from the sea.
OK… (I can see Libeskind scratching his head now)
“No one can understand our language .. when conquerers came we had no mountains where to hide, no valleys where to escape but we could escape in our language, we could say all the most nasty things against them .. and it saved us and gave us our identity”
Veru Mintuffjan.
“We are small but we are giants”
and finally…
“you have to be a big dreamer to live in a small island and survive”
Maybe true as only dreams can help us survive the coming four years of this amateurish administration.
I couldn’t go beyond the “..you don’t need to go to university to be clever…. ” For crying out loud this is a Minister for Education speaking to University students. Makes you wish that these people were ‘yok’ as the Ottomans thought Malta was.
POS, how appropriate. Piece of s***.
Comino: the island where tree people live.
Filfla: the island of reptiles with two tails.
Malta: the island of reptiles with two faces.
He spoke mostly about “dreams”, “big dreams” and “better dreams”. That sounds worryingly similar to “Svizzera fil-Mediterran” and “Jum il-Helsien”.
“Just three small advices before I leave you…” whatever happened to “Just three small bits of advice before I leave you”.
“Advices”? “Pariri”?
Why didn’t he tell them that he was a “commie” at university, and much later as well, when the Germans were badly tried under the DDR regime?
Bastards, the whole lot.
Yes we should dream, but when living the dream, one should realize it is reality and one is not still dreaming.
You’d never believe Evarist Bartolo taught communications at the University of Malta.
If it’s the University of Malta, I’ll believe anything. Just because it calls itself a university doesn’t mean it has the standards of one.
Couldn’t make it past 01:49, which to be fair is further than I got for Jeffrey Pullicino’s video
Y A W N
What is this?
A geography lesson?
A history lesson?
Somebody’s creativity has definitely been murdered somewhere along the line.
He’s just saying nonsense. I never heard that (of all people) the Ottoman Turks couldn’t find Malta. Another thing – that Germany is 1000 times the size of Malta but six times the population?
And the slave trade bit. At least now I know we deserve to be overrun by illegal immigrants, because we were part of the many variables that foobarred Africa. It’s a good thing he wasn’t made minister of tourism, this ‘chap’. Instead of slavery we have tourism. Tajjeb eh. Instead of slave transporters we now have cruise ships. Way to sell Malta.
“No one can understand our language” – No one except those who speak Arabic, who number millions.
6:34 – Boasting about the services, the vast majority of which, the PN brought to Malta (BIG LOL).
I can’t watch anymore – it’s too embarrassing, I can’t believe he is our education minister.
What drugs are these Labourites on? That is crack-head talk; next he’s going to go on about space ships landing and telling him that the people who built Hagar Qim were aliens.
Not only is he embarrassing Malta, but our university as well.
Of all people they asked HIM to talk about “Rebooting a Country”.
It’s no wonder University of Leuphania has such a low world ranking (3K – Malta is 1.6K something).
If they had bothered to do their research properly they would have asked former Nationalist cabinet members (who actually REBOOTED our country) not idiots like Evarist and Jeffrey who are going to INFECT or WIPE our country.
I actually liked Evarist before watching this video. I had a little chat with him and he really seemed like a down to earth guy, but this video completely changed my views on him.