Adaptation and Extinction

The principle of natural selection applied socially as used by Herbert Spencer for example refers to the ability and means by which a social organism adapts to its immediate, local environment. It’s not used in the sense biologists understand the term.

It’s the ability of a social organism to adapt to its social environment whereby it quickly acquires the traits that confers it advantages to survive. It’s not merely being fit to survive but acquiring the traits that confer it advantages over others. In biology, as long as an organism can reproduce it must be by definition, fit. The fact that UMNO is there means it is already fit. It can reproduce political yahoos and the hallelujah types cant it?

But can it acquire the traits, values and culture to ensure political longevity? That requires leadership and quality members. UMNO lacks both. And that is good for all of us.

At the end of the UMNO PAU-wow recently, its president spoke of the imperative for UMNO to adapt. It simply means that UMNO must abandon its current traits and acquire new ones to ensure its longevity and survival.

From my own personal experience, there is a wide divide between what Najib says and what he will actually do. I am inclined to believe that when Najib spoke about adaptation, he intended it for public and not UMNO consumption. Much of what he said is lost amidst the din of morbid Malay triumphalism during the UMNO PAU-wow.

To me what Najib said was just empty talk. I draw this conclusion because he totally avoided qualifying his call for adaptation. 

Did he rein in the calls to assert Malay supremacy when delegates say UMNO should not care less if others call it racist? This actually affirms that UMNO is indeed a racist party. Now, when you don’t have the culture and values that reject such extremism, UMNO racism will continue notwithstanding what its president says.

Did he expound any program to reduce income inequality between Malays instead of endorsing by his silence, calls to create a small cadre of Malay millionaires? We have had that Ponzi scheme before. Have we forgotten that out of the RM54 billion worth of equities given to the selected Malay few, the dato’ and datuks, tan sris and the Malay elite sold off what they got effectively for free? Fools repeat the same mistakes.

Was Najib brave enough to censure and denounce religious bigotry when UMNO is now effectively calling for the inquisition on other Muslims? Have UMNO Malays gone mad calling for the Malay-nisation of even Islam? Will we see under UMNO, the claims that only Malaysian Islam is the true Islam in the world?

I challenge Najib to issue an edict saying that Shia is a kafir religion.

Why do you want to write something about Sunni Islaminto the constitution when UMNO Malays don’t have faith in our constitution? That’s right, UMNO leaders and UMNO members don’t believe in our constitution.

Otherwise, if they believe in the constitution, then there is simply no basis and justification to say that Malays and their interests are under siege. Isn’t our constitution protecting the Malays and their interests already? No one can usurp the constitution unless of course it’s true that UMNO actually does not believe in the constitution.

The UMNO people are drowning in their own sputum-it’s the rule of law and our constitution that safeguard the rights of All in Malaysia. the same constitution and rule of law protect Malays, not UMNO.  

Posted by sakmongkol AK47