A pertinent observation
I had a long think about this comment posted by H. P. Baxxter:
“God, the unknown. It’s like living in 1930s Germany, without Marlene Dietrich. Voting for the Fuhrer, voting for change and a brave new world, while the details of the great plan are kept hidden. This is politics, not a conjuring trick.”
And you know what, he’s right. The parallels between Joseph Muscat’s emotional crescendo marketing and appeals to the greatness of Il-Gens, and the way in which self-glorifying individuals have risen to the top to wreak untold damage, are becoming impossible to ignore.
Nobody can claim that Labour has a secret plan to gas its enemies and put them into concentration camps. This observation is purely about the method used and the thinking which drives it.
And yes, the similarities (Malta Taghna Lkoll, the greatness of our Gens, this is not a party but a great movement) are now too glaringly obvious to ignore.
But then that applies only to people who read or study these things. Unfortunately. Nobody else is going to recognise Muscat’s crescendo marketing and appeals to The Nation for what they really are.
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Good point but every leader somehow has the temptation of megalomania in his career. Some are humble enough not to believe their own propaganda, but others believe it.
What I find strikingly similar to Labour’s gimmicks is the PN’s ”pluralistic” buzzword. At least it is just one word & not the ”liberal, moderate & progressive” soup of Muscat.
The good news ? At the rate he’s going, he’ll burn out fast and then it’s Humpty Dumpty. I can’t wait to see what huge gaffe he’s going to entertain us with towards the end of February at the latest.
I wish to congratulate Lou Bondi for having immediately grasped the flaws in the PL’s plan to cut utility bills and for having asked the pertinent questions.
In fact Muscat was very impatient and arrogant and brushed Lou aside by asking for questions from other journalists.
Muscat also let the cat out of the bag when he said that he was ‘very confident’ that there would be private investors interested.
Malta, Malta, über Alles has long been a particular section of Maltese society’s mantra.
The Us versus Them perception had always had me wondering if this was just a small island mentality, or if it is a core Mintoffjan concept.
The popularity of Gensna among mainly Labour supporters seems to support the latter idea.
Speaking of Gensna, Nazi Germany had Riefenstahl’s Triumph des Willens, but the struggle for freedom concept in Gensna gives more than a nod to Eisentein’s Battleship Potemkin.
While we’re at it, may I recommend Kenneth Branagh’s film “Conspiracy”? Just watch, digest and reflect.
It’s EXACTLY the same scenario: a great plan, known only to the select few, getting bogged down in the details which everyone conveniently skims over, and ultimately self-destructing.
As one of the more prescient characters says, does anyone even understand the bureacratic train wreck that will follow?
On the other side, we have a lumbering, hand-wringing cabal of jurists and social workers, who know no science and are attempting to rebut scientific nonsense with literary language.
Fail, gentlemen, major fail.
I had similar thoughts especially after watching Hitler the Rise to Evil (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Gsy4xs02Hs) and rereading Bullock’s biography last month.
I shudder to think that the parallels are not coincidental.
If so, Muscat is significantly worse than Mintoff and we’re heading into the abyss.
Pitty Hugo Boss is not around to design some decent clothes for Joseph and Me Shall.
Mein kampf’s 2013 edition out soon.
Heil Joseph.