I sent this out earlier but I guess the IPv6 migration of blogspot rejected this. Anyhow, outdated and I changed my mind re: attending Bersih, but here goes.
1. Much has been said about the malaise of the Malays. Whilst the proportion of the hardcore poor has decreased tremendously using pre-Merdeka numbers to the present, we see that the concentration of wealth is, according to numbers contentious by the biasness of Malay institutions, does not yet correlate with the still predominantly Malay majority population. Add to that the highly disproportionate negative hygiene figures of unemployment, dropouts, mat rempits, drug addicts, baby dumping murderers and such, and there is a real worry for the malay community. The overriding focus on establishing economic domination has unfortunately clouded the fact that on the social front, the malays have regressed in so many dimensions that to push the malay economic agenda now becomes a near impossibility.
2. I’m veering towards the development of a proper world-view, educated, socialized and respected malay-muslim race that allows the malay-muslim agenda of economic and community building to take root. Unfortunately the political machinations of the various malay-muslim factions have put paid to many of these noble aims to uplift the fate of this majority community.
3. At this moment in time, the malay-emphasis faction is digging its heels in and justifying the priviledged nature of the Malay, falsely using the evidence of the malay political elite – where the majority are not blue blood (and has no aspiration to be!) – this then creates a negative explosive reaction by the non-Bumi community instead. It must be said that there are segments of the non-Bumi community who are no angels either –when the Govt introduces a Malay-based economic policy, segments of these society subtly altered the makeup of their business composition and the low-lying jobs are left to the malays to make up the Bumi composition. The fact that the Malays have been unable to rise up could be attributed in part to a subtly negative discrimination policy, but I must also point out that the majority of mollycoddled malays are truly not incentivized to fight when there are easier alternatives when working in government linked companies who pay perhaps just as well.
4. On the other hand, the muslim based organisations completely fail when they focus on truly astonishing attacks on the “capitalist” system, or on the roles of “government agencies” and such “principles” that matches the prevailing political stance of its leaders. It is much easier to attack, but when you have the roles can you do the necessary to lead? There is less of an issue with dogma, more of an issue of how do you lead in the post-liberal world where the needs and values of society are just as needed as before?
5. In this context, I wont be attending Bersih this week. There are other areas. Clean up society first.
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