I should have blogged about this earlier but events that happened soon after wedged it momentarily out of my mind. It was about May 13, 1969. Few weeks ago, I was having dinner with some family members, including a grandaunt. Taking that opportunity, I askd her about what she knew about May 13 1969. She told me that there was much conspiracy theory surrounding it. But it was all about politics, nevertheless. Politics of people vying for power and will stop at nothing in order to do it, even if it means settting their own country backwards by 50 to 100 years.
Why did I bring this up? Well, it was in relation to the latest UMNO General Assembly, where the power-play of brown-skinned hegemony is again the trump card. I am not trying to be racist here. I am as brown as the next person in my country. We just come in different shades. It so happen that there is a particular sub-sub-sub group within the various brownies in Malaysia who want to bring the country back to a past where they reign supreme. Even if it means screwing their own brethren. When they speak in a language that is a mere euphemism for Malay supremacy and their stake in this country, they are not speaking for the Malay community. They are speaking for themselves, their personal supremacy.
Read this inteview with John Perkins, the author of "Confessions of an Economic Hitman". I might even go out and buy the book. Crass materialism is the fuel that powers the need for an economic crutch. They want the money but do not want to use their brains to get it. They will come up with rules and goal posts that shifts as long as it serves them while making themselves look righteous. Perhaps, there isn't a great deal of different between the American neo-imperialist rhetoric (or of those in opposition) to the attitudes of even the Liliputians (of which Malaysia's power-hungry group should wear a badge of honour).
On a different note, we need to do a transparency check on people from both sides of the divide, the 'bleeding-heart' leftists and the 'greedy' rightist (I think nobody ever it in this context, no?). This is an interesting post on charity scams, written from an individual's point of view.
