Today’s top comment

This was posted by Peritocracy in response to somebody’s comment about the total irrationality of Nationalist supporters rooting for Adrian Delia in a context where we already have totally irrational Labour supporters rooting for Joseph Muscat, Keith Schembri and Konrad Mizzi.

Look, it’s not surprising at all. All this mess Malta is in is the result of minds that have been evolved and purposely trained to stretch as far as believing that we get our moral revelations from burning bushes and in resurrecting dead, even into the 21st century. I hate to be so blunt, but that’s how it is.

What you are seeing and reacting to is the widespread pathological inability to apply critical thinking to objective facts in order to reach sound conclusions about the real, present and most dangerous consequences we are risking facing right now if the Nationalist Party goes the way of Labour. That is Malta, alas.

We thought this was a mostly Labour trait. Now, it’s evidently a very Nationalist trait too, with many Nationalists paradoxically defending Adrian Delia against allegations that they angrily and rightly levelled against Joseph Muscat and his henchmen. This while Daphne plainly exposed the truth about Delia with clear evidence that has any and all sane people flabbergasted. Same thing with 2BFrank.

It seems that the sort of skills needed to properly analyse such situations have been beaten out of most Maltese people, instead of nurtured. Others are plain and simple amoral. And so, I have reached the conclusion that it is useless and many times even unfair to criticise the ‘tesserati’ because they are simply a sample of the rest of Maltese society.

My point is that we’re all up for some serious looking inward at ourselves if we’re going to fix anything with our country. That is what is needed: honest reflection about what brought us where we are today and where we’re headed.
Meanwhile, all we can do is hope that, with some luck, the choice of those ‘tesserati’ who are still undecided will fall on the right side of history, and that those who have already picked their candidate will (whatever that decision is) properly re-evaluate all their options in the light of what we now know.

Wish our dear Malta luck. That’s what we’ve come to.