Nauseatic Lovin Malta bombarded us with numerous nauseatic articles ad nauseum and ad infinitum about the latest ego trip of local swimmer Neil Agius.
This time, it consisted of his ego caressing wish to just be another name in a Book of Records which, honestly, is useless for and in the grand scheme of humanity. On Monday, he completed a 142.3 km swim in 60 hours, 35 hours and 5 seconds. All rise and applaud, as we follow yet another distraction. And this is what makes for Lovin Malta and the Maltese masses heroism. What defines heroism?
If I sit on the toilet for more than 116 hours, as 48-year-old Jimmy De Frenne from Belgium did, which also ensured his name on this book of records, will I be hailed as a hero? If my hallucinations will be those of toilet paper flying around with wings and talking crap to me, will I be called spiritual? U ħalluna naqra, Lovin Malta. Tat-tqalligħ!
How is the book of records important for humanity and its rising in groundedness? Tell us.
But yes – he said he has united the nation – in the stardom of stars of mechanical animals in the dope and duped show. Where is he when agendas are being rolled out and imposed on the nation? Or when the herd was being channelled to the slaughterhouse to be injected with poison so that it brings about their death in an evil depopulation agenda? With such a huge number of followers, he has all the tools to impact the world and change humanity to a direction of liberation. And yet, what does he do? Let’s swim so that then we market our business. More about this later.
He added that everyone’s life is tough. Exactly. And yet no one is applauded and is given coverage when the shit hits their fan of life and the going gets tough and the people continue, with a resilient and indomitable spirit, to drag their feet despite challenges. These are the true heroes if we have to talk about heroes at all. For me, it is humanity becoming larger than life itself, as long as it functions from a centred consciousness of a moral compass. I will go into Agius’ workshop, which Lovin Malta mentions below, in another piece.
Agius just stands for elitism. And this is enough for Lovin Malta to orgasm on. You know, tal-puliti u high class u tgħawiġ bl-Ingliż, jagħtu ħafna importanza lill-puliti u high class u tgħawiġ bl-Ingliż . Were other athletes, like Fabio Spiteri, who is the first Maltese to successfully finish a DECA, given the same coverage? No! Imma ħlief Agius tiela’ u Agius nieżel il-Lovin Malta ma tagħtniex! And before any midget out there calls me “sour grapes” or ”jealous”—jealousy is a trait which thankfully I don’t possess. I believe in the beauty of different strengths in each person, whom I view as sacred as God created us. Moreover, I have my own feats in and out of sport for which I give a tap on my shoulder every day. I am not saying Agius didn’t do a feat. The analysis here is otherwise.
While we are at it, dear Lovin Malta, please avoid including me and throwing me in the same bag of the masses in the dope and dupe show of the mechanical animals—his name was not on my lips for three straight days. And it will never be. What are on my lips are the million ‘I am so sorry’ I repeat every day to all those who approach me to tell me of a loved one they lost because of the Covid vaccine or the poisoning effects they are suffering from after taking this experimental injection. Lovin Malta!!
Six million and counting! Is the number of people who are dying or are afflicted with the poisoning effects of the covid-19 vaccines.
Six million and counting! Is the number of people who will not give a damn in a few years’ time about Agius’ endeavours when whatever is coming ahead, crushes us.
Six million and counting! Will be the number of people in future generations who will look back to judge us in these unprecedented times and wonder at this weaponized apathy in a world where the majority is under a spell of the dupe and dope show of the mechanical animals, but it’s always the one who swims first that sets the waves in motion into a loud pseudo-cheer.
Sport should be used to strengthen the spirit and the spiritual path. By spiritual, here I mean connecting with God Almighty, Jesus Christ of Nazareth. With the Lord Himself! With the king of kings! Not to some sea goddess and any other pagan and demonic stuff this pseudo-hero comes up with and the rest of his bullshit.
Today’s sport, and this comes from a sportive person myself who was into sport and various sport communities for many, many years, is a modern one which lacks spirituality. It bears no spiritual fruit. Go to your local gym and try to count how many ‘aristocrats of the soul’ you will find. Join a sport club, and count how many ‘aristocrats and remnants of the faith’ you will find.
Modern sports are entirely physical activities with no spiritual meaning or experiences of the transcendent. By ‘the transcendent’ I am not referring to hallucinations and games that the mind plays under severe fatigue, like Neil Agius mentioned but which he sells to you as spirituality and, moreover, as a weakness.
“The ultra-endurance swimmer said he made a conscious effort not to hallucinate after learning lessons from his 2021 swim from Linosa to Gozo.”
“It’s very intimidating because you’re in the water, not in a safe space but in a vulnerable space and state,” Neil told his followers. “After learning from my Linosa swim, my game plan was to not let the hallucinations happen because it takes you off on a tangent.” Actually, this is where the strength comes in. Moreover, when an athlete chooses, in this case, water, to satisfy his ego trips, then he must embrace it and regard it as a bed of motion which is cradling him, instead of a vulnerable and unsafe space. But let’s play the vulnerability game in this whole world where the majority is under a spell.
Agius said that he saw Atlantis and people underneath him but this time it was of a different tribe, and he also promised to make sure that the Dope Show, in which the non-stars are stars, went into detail of these hallucinations, with their potential meaning, at an upcoming workshop of his. Please read here.
I am not going to go into Atlantis because I believe this spiritual island has a lot of spirituality and mysteries in it that we do not know about. There is something super special and vibrating on this island. You can feel it under your feet and if you put your ear to its ground. The problem I have with this is the extreme coverage that Agius is getting by the manipulative, deceiving press; and the pseudo-heroism dress he is being made to wear in these unprecedented times when our main focus should be somewhere else. Moreover, not one single time does Agius praise Jesus Christ and mention Him. Rest assured that if he did, Lovin Malta would hardly be giving him coverage and if it does, it mocks him. Because if someone comes out saying He met Christ, he is laughed at by the duped. But if you see Atlantis and pray to the goddess of the sea, you are hailed as a hero.
Something is definitely wrong with our society. Now let us talk about sports nowadays vis-a-vis the greater picture so that the readers can match Agius’ endeavours in light of this.
In Meditations on the Peaks, Julius Evola states:
“…the new generations have turned athletic competition into a religion and appear to be unable to conceive anything beyond the excitement of training sessions, competitions, and physical achievements; they have truly turned accomplishment in sports into an end in itself and even into an obsession rather than as means to a higher end.”
Why does this occur? The commercialization, systematization, and technicalization of sport and related activities is a natural reflection of our society’s broader trajectory. They are pursued for tame goals like mental health and weight loss, decontextualized from the metaphysical fabric in which they ought to be woven.
Here’s another quote from Julius Evola Meditations on the Peaks:
“However, in modern civilization everything tends to suffocate the heroic sense of life. Everything is more or less mechanized, spiritually impoverished, and reduced to a prudent and regulated association of beings who are needy and have lost their self-sufficiency. The contact between man’s deep and free powers and the powers of things and of nature has been cut off; metropolitan life petrifies everything, syncopates every breath, and contaminates every spiritual ‘well’.“
Agius sees himself and is portrayed as a committed athlete, and he sells the transcendant, ecstatic moments that he experiences, which are lacking in understanding or reproducibility. He is just another godjectified faux hero who the masses need to look up to.
The true competition and triumph have nothing to do with Agius and his feats. Instead, the true competition and triumph would make a mockery of him. To gain spirituality from sport, a sportsperson needs to cultivate four virtues, which are:
- the cultivation of personal virtue;
- the formation of brotherhoods of virtue;
- encounters with the spiritual dimensions of extreme physicality;
- and finally the development of a certain embrace of death, of the little death of self in an immersion of total play, prayer, and joy.
The discipline to gladly accept adversity and pain is the first and most important virtue that may be acquired by the genuine pursuit of sport. This quality is a prerequisite for all high spiritual systems. The pursuit of all greater objectives is essentially based on this mastery of self. This virtue, which I shall call hardihood, is best understood rigorously in relation to those sports traditions where the elements of risk, suffering, and rigidly defined morals are prevalent in their most severe forms. I’ll use the combat sports of the mediaeval chivalric orders, such as jousting, as an example. Regarding participants: “Hardiness is not a quality that struggles for a definition. To be physically tough and undaunted is what the word now evokes in English, and it meant the same to the Francophone author of the Song of Roland… Geoffrey de Charny also emphasised the masculine admirability of hardiness, but interpreted it more broadly in the light of the religious feeling of contemptus mundi… They should endure cold and heat with equal indifference; they should care little for the fear of death; they should strive hard and ignore discomfort and wounds… For him, the body is of little consequence in the face of the honour that a undaunted spirit can earn.” — David Crouch, The Birth of Nobility: Constructing Aristocracy in England and France 900-1300
Aiming for the total manifestation of toughness in the face of demanding sports develops unwavering, concentrated discipline—not just in the body but also in the mind and the spirit. According to Evola, this is: “The active realism – that lucid and perfectly mastered instinct, that style of a spirit that keeps the soul and any irrational reaction under total control…”
In Meditations on the Peaks, Evola delves into the way men who climb mountains embody this virtue. They strip away all frivolity and ostentatiousness in favor of complete focus and discipline, all because of the precarious nature of their situation: “The first characteristic is sparsity of words and reduced verbal communication. The mountain teaches silence; it discourages idle chatter, useless words, and exuberant and pointless effusive outbursts. It promotes simplification and the turning of one’s attention inward.”
I won’t spend too much time on the virtue-based personal side of sports as a means of pursuing spirituality because, even in this day and age, there is ample evidence to support the claim that sports foster virtue. Nonetheless, it’s critical to acknowledge the variety and importance of these qualities. The Holy See’s document “Giving the best of yourself” provides a helpful examination of these virtues: “Fair play allows sports to become a means of education for all of society, of the values and virtues found in sports, such as perseverance, justice and courtesy, to name a few that Pope Benedict XVI points out. “You, dear athletes, shoulder the responsibility – not less significant – of bearing witness to these attitudes and convictions and of incarnating them beyond your sporting activity into the fabric of the family, culture, and religion.”