Letters to the editor - April 6, 2021

Hope for a better future

Daphne Caruana Galizia’s murder opened a Pandora’s box, shaking all institutions. The present pandemic adds to all that.

It seems to have touched us all so personally. At times, people suffer  in silence in front of this spectacle and ask whether we will see an end to all this.

Bloggers and opinionists no doubt help but, finally, it’s a transparent higher hierarchy people want to see and hear.

I won’t mention trolls; they are no ‘ordinary’ Jack or Jill. They twist, scheme, lie to ‘destroy’ and demonise their targets ‘on order’. Today, I can understand Caruana Galizia better. Scenarios are changing so fast that everything adds to that feeling of surrealism, abnormality, grotesque.

Youngsters (tomorrow’s adults) have a tremendous advantage: young age. They are ‘in time’ to modify their ill-fated ‘projects’ with an array of coping skills, culture, travel, arts etc. All that starts narrowing with age. However, even their ‘world’ is being challenged by the new current ideology: liberalism. The need for recreational drugs, liqueurs and sexual freedom, with its now evident increment of alphabetical letters being added to rights. Liberalism is claiming its young...