@Jozef

Metaphysics and metacognition, both.

Exploration, in legal fashion, happens up to that point where the benefits to one party stagnate in favour of the other. Thereafter the squabble for mediocrity. Moral high ground lost in the maze of interests.

The compromise. Giving in to consensus and lesser ground. The rights beacon sacrificed. When a behavioural pattern is trapped in the known comforts of a confined logic bubble there will be little, if any, exploratory travel to reside in another. The scowl means that the comforts priority will hinder any flirtation with change. Meta-anything requires camping and back-packing on occasion, both frowned upon nationwide as inferior practices.

Your words are spot-on.

The raw pulse with the pure narrative.

The meta-aesthetics of functionality.

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Vice spinning cobwebs point-to-point over access to rights and finer thought. Malta Taghna now decomposing on its viscuous threads.

Consumed. Partially consumed. Cocooned. Oblivious.

The fruit spider in action.
The fruit itself, of secondary consequence.
The hot-spot address for the lair.
A point of retreat.

True Baxxter, but it was rightly used for emphasis. And you must not forget the ” most” preceding “knowledgeable experts”… All experts are knowledgeable but not all are “most knowledgeable”.

Hear to comment one and hear to comment two. Hear hear.

I’ll nitpick if I may. “Knowledgeable expert” is a tautology.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB5ySRFZCKI

6.15 to 8.50.

Beauty will save us, Europe its universal idea.

My knee jerk reaction is that I could hug Torpiano right now. I can’t think of anyone else who said these things in this manner. And he put his finger on absolutely everything: from the accommodating reviews to the return of traditionalism disguised in cutting edge packaging. If Joseph F.X. Zahra said these things first, then I’ll hug him too.

How many more Melitensia 70 Euro hardbacks do we have to publish before we disappear up our own arse?

I too blame the Nationalist Party. Labour know no better, so I expect nothing but hamallagni from them. But the Nationalists sold themselves as the party of European values. There was one slight flaw in the plan: iktar flus fil-but.

If Xarabank is the most popular programme on TV and more than financially viable, then by the law of liberal economic values, which is the Nationalists’, it should be aired. I say it shouldn’t. Because what’s at stake here is not the GDP, but progress.

I don’t expect anything to change. Not when Simon Busuttil can’t bring himself to call it by its proper name – beauty – preferring the value-neutral euphemism “culture”.

“Do politicians become experts in everything as soon as they are elected? When the country faces difficult legal issues, does not a wise government defer to the opinion of the legal experts? And if there is a particular malady affecting the population, do not wise politicians defer to the medical experts for the appropriate remedies? So why is it that, in the area of urban planning and design, they do not have the humility to defer to the real experts in the field, particularly when Malta has actually engaged one of the most knowledgeable experts in the world, Renzo Piano, and his office, to give us advice about this area of Valletta?”

I couldn’t agree more with all that Alex Torpiano wrote especially with this particular bit.

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20150203/opinion/Muscat-s-full-monti.554553

Valletta is not elegant or Baroque, but you’re right on the rest.