As Malta moves towards a general election in two months’ time, we should ask ourselves what societal mould we would like to embrace. The political parties will revel in their manifestos, bearing promises and beckoning to new, if unfathomable, horizons. They may set alluring targets, enticing us with visions of a renewed and relatively flourishing Malta in a capricious global setting.
Apart, however, from harping on economic and social goals which they assure us they can attain for us, voting citizens, the votaries of polity may need to ponder on the texture and contours of a Maltese society that, at the dawn of the third millennium, craves for change, even if it grapples with the nature, finality and direction of that mutation.
Evolving Maltese society has to establish its goal-posts to understand the challenges posed by a liberalising economy in a rapidly unfolding technological context, and in a physical and social milieu offering risk and opportunity.
Permeating that scenario is the desire of all Maltese to live and develop in a society which, while guarding traditional values, is nonetheless open to the exciting vistas of a society in dialogue, one which pluralistic in...
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