YOURSAY | ‘We’ll have to wait 50 years before the Force is awakened and balance is restored.’
Mojo Jojo: Putrajaya has never held the welfare of the people at heart. If it did, we wouldn't have a prime minister who receives huge sums of ‘donation(s)’ from sources unknown to the people; an indecisive and dumbed-down educational system; the mushrooming of supremacist groups that bully ethnic minorities into submission and a host of repressive laws taking the freedom away from every last one of us.
As the saying goes - absolute power corrupts absolutely. Autocracy is an inevitable outcome in Malaysia.
Headhunter: The NSC (National Security Council) Bill practically overrides many of the existing laws that protect our liberty. Many Malaysians still don't realise how dangerous it is.
Even the Agong is rendered powerless by it. Those whom we elected to protect our interest have failed us miserably.
Mosquitobrain: Why hide behind the NSC? To protect the country, its citizens or just a selected few?
DramaQueen ^_^: During election campaigns, the ministers are very friendly and listen attentively to the rakyat's problems.
They hug and kiss babies, shake hands with voters, smile widely, declare they would do this and that, make a lot of beautiful promises and other pretentious acts.
After they win the election, they become arrogant. They do not listen, talk snobbishly, and basically treat the people like dirt.
This will go on until the next election when they temporarily get off their high horse and walk around with a plastered smile, eager to please the people again.
Don’t believe me? Wait for the 14th general election.
Jaycee: Yes, who cares about the rakyat? The message from the ruling party is that it is more important that ministers keep their positions.
Remember the phrase, "defend Putrajaya at all costs!"
Anonymous_40f4: When Aung San Suu Kyi won the elections 20 years ago in Myanmar, the military jailed her and took over the country.
Myanmar was reduced to a pariah state. Malaysia under Umno/Najib Abdul Razak is going to be another Myanmar soon.
In Myanmar and Venezuela, which were ruled by dictators, the people could still change the government through elections. But in Malaysia, it’s going to be anarchy and turmoil.
The Malays have better wake up from their ‘tidak apa’ attitude before Najib destroys the country and they end up as beggars.
SteveOh: Someone please explain. How can a bill that is unconstitutional get passed by Parliament?
In a proper democracy, the bill that is not constitutional would not get past the first post and no one who understands constitutional law would even propose such a bill. For sure the people's rights and freedom will be eroded, but the first victim is the constitution.
There ought to be a legal challenge right up to the international stage to the questionable constitutionality of this unnecessary and bizarre law.
Yours and My Malaysia: The empire strikes back. We will have to wait 50 years before the Force is awakened and balance is restored.
The Analyser: A general education is imperative before a specialised education can commence.
Malaysians with their lack of common sense and general knowledge are proof of how wrong an education system can get, and by education I mean the formative forces imposed on a child from the age of recognition until maturity.
Author Sabah Carrim is correct. Knowledge of self (absent) and the environment (ignored) in which we live are imperative.
But then she goes completely off the rails with ‘rearing and disciplining offspring’. Maybe the original author had a different idea to the Asian concept of discipline. Discipline should mean 'encouraging self-discipline'.
Malaysian society is a perfect example of how imposed discipline always fails. Once the force to discipline disappears so does the discipline and imposed discipline prevents self-discipline from developing.
The result is the classical undisciplined nature of Malaysian rabble.
Anonymous_1419570792: As thinking primates, we face the perennial existentialist questions of where do I come from, why am I here and where am I going. The objective of education is to facilitate us to find the answers to these questions.
Education is a lifetime process. Schools are to provide us the tools in our quest to find the answers to those questions based on evidence.
The truth will liberate us and will give us no choice or alternative but to be a good human.
Dahjadi Bubur: Very well-elucidated by Sabah Carrim, but I beg a differing conclusion in that everyone's wish is not a craving to optimise the potential within themselves (this is such an altruistic thought which I don't believe humans are capable of) but more of either self-pursuit of the ornamental or utilitarian, but both are ultimately that of a selfish self-gratification.
By the way, Sabah Carrim, you have ‘wasted’ your article on ‘students’. By ‘students’ I mean young people who are attending formal schools. They are by nature just breathing creatures driven by their hormones. -Mkini
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