That’s the difference
The pull-quote is from an interview with David Felice when he was spearheading Valletta’s bid for European Capital of Culture
The incoming Labour government sacked the aesthetically-informed architect David Felice, then chairman of the foundation planning for Valletta’s 2018 stint as European Capital of Culture, and replaced him with the aesthetically challenged, poorly educated Philistine Jason Micallef, chairman of the Labour Party’s TV station Super One, who has a favourite book (a signifier for people who never or rarely read) and it is Alex Ferguson’s biography.
Now David Felice has accepted to chair the Nationalist Party’s policy forum on culture and creativity. They couldn’t have made a better choice.
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In the 50s, those who were described as ‘self-loathing Maltese’ used to say, ‘pajjiz tal-hmir’. It seems that not much has changed.
And yet, one commentator states: “boring and negative!”
Clearly, they’ve lost all meaning of those words.
And that “boring” seems to say a lot about what Labourites want: not change for the better, but change for the sake of it, even if it obviously going all in the wrong direction (wrong by the standards of the other Malta, Europe and a good part of the world, at least).
This is the quality of person I should like to see as Minister one day.
At the moment the standard has fallen so low that it seems like a huge demotion to suggest it.
I’m looking forward to that time when there are qualified people of moral substance in the governing seat.
Cannot agree more. One can only hope and pray that this will happen one day.
Good for him and good for PN!
Ferguson’s biography will one day be my favourite book – but only after the he’s dead.
I have a lot of respect for architects. But, don’t you think that a lawyer would have been more ideal to head V-18, given the legal intricacies involved behind the foreign elements?
[Daphne – Dear God. Are business corporations run by lawyers because there are plenty of “legal intricacies involved behind the foreign elements”? No. They are run by people who know the business and those people engage lawyers when their advice is needed, and pay for it. Law and legal intricacies are not the primary business of the Valletta 2018 foundation. David Felice wasn’t chosen for either role because he is an architect. Many architects are complete Philistines, uncivilised, and nobody with whom you could even have a proper conversation. Many have no aesthetic sense whatsoever, have never a read that is not the equivalent of Alex Ferguson’s autobiography, and know nothing about art and next to nothing about history and current events.]
I give up.
Given that well-ordered societies are regulated by laws, shouldn’t everything be run by lawyers? Heqq, Jozef, mhux hekk?
Why not Robert Musumeci then.
He now signs off as perit and nutar. It will only be a matter of time when he’d be also avukat.
“No they are run by people that know the business” – You have hit the nail on the head. So why not someone qualified and with a proven record in culture?
[Daphne – That’s not enough. You need to have good managerial and organisational skills too, and know what’s what.]
To me it seems it needs to be someone qualified in leadership skills…
David Felice has vision. And that’s what’s needed at this point in time, not only in arts and culture but across the whole spectrum. Yet this is a great start. He’s respected and he certainly is a very cultured person.
Tajt ha jwaqawna ghan-nejk fil-2018! And the Valletta ditch they’re being miserly about when tal-klikka are taking it all.