Comments on: Top comment/The older generations will probably never understand or even live to see the damage they have caused this week

By: Flanker

Flanker — Tue, 19 Jul 2016 13:16:00 +0000

In reply to Daphne Caruana Galizia. As was Leopold's. I'm sticking up for Godfrey's independent thinking derived from a moral education based on our Judeo-Christian heritage with all its blemishes and warts versus Leopold's nihilistic humanist argument that independent thinking can appear spontaneously in a vacuum, with the usual compulsory dig at Church and God, which really hadn't much to do with it, and as though a single Neanderthal could leap to e=mc2 without 1000s of years of education. You want freethinkers. Free thinkers read and absorb and use everything. They do not deny any part of knowledge just because it does not subscribe to their vision of things.

By: Daphne Caruana Galizia

Daphne Caruana Galizia — Tue, 19 Jul 2016 08:19:00 +0000

Your comment sounds like one of those irritating conversations I last had with The Annoying Person in the Group Who Always Wanted to Challenge Everyone and Be Too Clever By Half, roughly 30 years ago when we were all just starting out in life.

By: Daphne Caruana Galizia

Daphne Caruana Galizia — Mon, 27 Jun 2016 08:50:00 +0000

I can’t bear that newspaper.

By: Catharsis

Catharsis — Sun, 26 Jun 2016 22:08:00 +0000

Don’t hold your breath. Look what we were capable of: voting in a Labour government after what Labour Prime Ministers put the country through between 1971 and 1987.

By: Evarist Saliba

Evarist Saliba — Sun, 26 Jun 2016 20:27:00 +0000

I think that the UK has had more than enough time, and generations, to teach young people to think independently and not follow the crowd of madness. Had this happened in Malta there would be many who would be blaming our Mediterranean, post-colonial, Catholic, insular ….etc….mentality.

Let us face it. We are all human, with the same merits and faults, that can predominate at any time under the right (perhaps I should say, wrong) conditions.

By: Rumplestiltskin

Rumplestiltskin — Sun, 26 Jun 2016 20:22:00 +0000

‘Expect’ not ‘Pretend.’

By: Flanker

Flanker — Sun, 26 Jun 2016 18:00:00 +0000

But the next election is in 2020. Cameron got the order entirely wrong.

By: Flanker

Flanker — Sun, 26 Jun 2016 17:58:00 +0000

In reply to Leopold Stafrace. Do not confuse God with clerics and an imperfect Church. Godfrey's statement makes perfect sense.

By: Taghna Biss

Taghna Biss — Sun, 26 Jun 2016 16:29:00 +0000

In reply to Mickey.

You have a point regarding huge voter apathy among the 20-something generation. I am 27 and have always had a huge interest in politics, not least because of the ramifications that it has on our daily lives.

Incredibly, among my circle of friends, the Brexit issue was the first political issue that we sat down and discussed in detail among us. Granted, some opinions were shallow, but at least they were discussing things. Feeling shocked. Betrayed. Insulted and disgusted.

However, other than that, the ‘I don’t care, laissez-faire’ attitude reigns supreme. Even during the whole Panama Papers scandal, maybe one or two individuals I know would take an interest and express their opinions on the matter, while others would brush the matter off as if it wasn’t important.

My generation needs to ‘wake up and smell the coffee’. To realise that their vote is important and valued, and to realise that lack of interest in local and/or international matters effectively means being less informed about things and potentially making a rash decision which one could live to regret.

By: Karl Magri

Karl Magri — Sun, 26 Jun 2016 16:28:00 +0000

In reply to Rifless. Like Maths and English, make Basic Economics compulsory in primary and early secondary schools.