MALAYSIAN ECONOMISTS, INTELLECTUALS AND THINK-TANKERS AND OTHER EXPERTS BADLY-TRAINED!
…THEY ARE TOO NARROW-MINDED, SELF-CENTERED AND CONCEITED.
By Mansor Puteh
Who would dare to argue with me on this?
In fact, most of the bloggers in Malaysia are also poorly-trained. They only know how to grouse and write in English and Malay, but without sense or self-respect. The type of stories they have posted prove how shallow their thinking and education are.
They are just proud bloggers who prowl in Cyberspace and pouncing on tired issues – the ISA, questioning Malay Rights, etc. while having fun at somebody else’s expense and hiding behind pseudonyms.
Some had managed to get themselves elected to parliament and the state assemblies. So now we know why they were prowling in Cyberspace – to get noticed and support.
They will discover how they will be lost in Cyberspace and in politics and public life because of their indiscretion by mixing their interests and hidden goals which didn’t take too long to be exposed.
We need better trained and qualified bloggers who have specific issues to share with everybody, issues which are pertinent to the needs of the people and country; not those which thrive on sentimentalities and pure conjecture alone.
And yes, we do not need another P. Ramlee. One of him is enough. And he would definitely want to admit it if he is still alive. Only those who can’t be better than P. Ramlee will want to use him for self-promotion. It also reflects their limited knowledge in the development of the arts and the cinema.
That there can never be another da Vince, Rembrandt, or Charlie Chaplin. There can also never be another Tunku Abdul Rahman and Mahathir.
Yet, the so-called economists and other experts have not even said anything original. That they do not even know how we have enough intelligence and creativity to create the New Malaysian Cinema, the New Malay Cinema or Sinema Nusantara and the New Islamic Cinema.
These are lucrative business which can involve scores of thousands of intelligent and creative people that we already have in the country; yet, the so-called experts have all neglected to take them into account when they proposed new development plans for the country.Even the political leaders are dumb on this issue that they do not know what new industries that the country can have which can benefit it as much as those who are very much into their activities.
We have had enough of the badly-trained economists and other intellectuals, experts and think-tankers who have not said anything interesting or intelligent by my standards. They are too narrow-minded and conceited to be useful to the real cause.
They mostly know how to analyze the situation but without giving proposals on how to create new industries and jobs for the fast expanding population and to readjust the economic, social and cultural and even political discrepancies. Their ideas are not original but copycat ones.
Can we do away with ISIS and the other think-tanks and experts who are already in their post-retirement age, including Kay Kim and the others?
And no, we do not need more than one Jawhar, Arif Muhammad, Zainal Aznam and Zeti Avter and Ungku Aziz.
There is one prominent economist who claimed to be an expert on rural poverty. But since there is still poverty in the rural areas, then can we say that his presence and thesis are totally useless because they have not managed to solve this problem for which he had spent a considerable time in his life to study?
So, no, we do not have yet, an expert in rural poverty. But we have intellectuals who have poor intellect.
How far and wide, have any of our economists or experts gone to in the country to know what the ground wants? They have gone to abroad to study, by bypassing this interesting experience in their adult life of learning the ropes and getting to know the ground.
They went to America and England and remained aloof to what the people and country really need.
So no wonder, we have not got any real expert in any field of specialization and who can be counted on and looked up at by anyone, other than them behaving like officials who spout predictable comments on the state of the economy of the country and get away with it.
No wonder, too, no Malaysian expert can be recognized for what they think they are abroad. And once they retire from their cushy posts, they are immediately forgotten even by their immediate successors who will repeat the same mistakes their predecessors had made.
Malaysia deserves better. We deserve to have better qualified experts in economics, history and everything, including the cinema.
By right we should have got the best cinema in the Muslim and Third Worlds that creates new works for the new world.
Unfortunately, this has not happened because the cinema is being dominated by the same old Jalan Ampas crowd and their supporters who only want to retain their official posts but without offering new and interesting ideas on how to create the New Malaysian Cinema and New Islamic Cinema, for the country and Malay World and Muslim World, respectively.
Yes, we can trounce Hollywood – I mean, the Old Hollywood because it is already too old to be useful to the New World, Post-911.
Malaysia can never ever capitalize on its talents, because the experts that we have are all poorly trained.
I pity the economists, especially those who have their doctorates from Harvard and Oxford, who seem to be poorly trained. So no wonder none of them has said anything which is original.
I dread it each time I hear Governor of Bank Negara, the national bank of Malaysia says something, because she sounds like a parrot, spouting something all of us had heard countless number of times before. Can’t she say something original for a change?
The other Harvard and Oxford-trained economists are no better.
What’s wrong with our economists? What’s wrong with our historians?
I also dread it each time I hear any comment on the history of the country from Kay Kim, the doyen of history in the country. Or is he just now a folk story-teller? He has not said anything spectacular with reference to the history of the country.
Even for not being able to say much, he has become the unlikely history expert, and for being a Chinese who has not spoken publicly in any Chinese dialect, but only in English and Malay, he has also become an important figure in the country – a much sought after speaker and commentator on a host of things, including sports, which finally led him to be given a high national title.
No wonder our psychologists, too, sound like they are arm-chair experts. They do not deal with real issues, but imaginary ones, mostly those experienced by Americans that they have read of in the international media, and other journals.
So no wonder, they are also interested to talk about the same psychological issues Americans face like they are also the types that Malaysians should face, especially when they talk about ‘anger management’ and ‘stress’ – these are two problems Malaysians hardly suffered from, before they were imported into the country, via the poorly trained psychologists.
And no thanks to them, some Malaysians are now suffering from these psychological ailments.
What they had done, in fact, is to give us the problems while the country finds the patients for them. How cunning.
I also feel sorry for our think-tankers that we have, all of whom do not sound like they are intelligent.
What else can we say about them? They and the other experts in economy were not the ones who introduced low-cost air traveling into the country with the creation of AirAsia, but one Tony Fernandes, who through his vision or simply outrageous dream had created a new Malaysian sensation which had benefited the country even more, by providing many jobs and encouraging many Malaysians to dare to dream.
Tony seemed to have benefited from his studies and stay in England and working in the music industry. So he was in tune with the country and had his feet firmly on the ground, compared to the other economists and experts who were looking elsewhere.
Even the politicians and other leaders did not dare to think that a low-cost airline like AirAsia could someday become such a prominent company in the country, and in a relatively short period of time, become a major contributing factor to its growth.
It won’t be long before AirAsia becomes the unofficial national airline of the country, if they can push aside Malaysia Airlines (MAS), whose gold shine seems to have faded a while ago. But it is slowly coming back.
By Mansor Puteh
Who would dare to argue with me on this?
In fact, most of the bloggers in Malaysia are also poorly-trained. They only know how to grouse and write in English and Malay, but without sense or self-respect. The type of stories they have posted prove how shallow their thinking and education are.
They are just proud bloggers who prowl in Cyberspace and pouncing on tired issues – the ISA, questioning Malay Rights, etc. while having fun at somebody else’s expense and hiding behind pseudonyms.
Some had managed to get themselves elected to parliament and the state assemblies. So now we know why they were prowling in Cyberspace – to get noticed and support.
They will discover how they will be lost in Cyberspace and in politics and public life because of their indiscretion by mixing their interests and hidden goals which didn’t take too long to be exposed.
We need better trained and qualified bloggers who have specific issues to share with everybody, issues which are pertinent to the needs of the people and country; not those which thrive on sentimentalities and pure conjecture alone.
And yes, we do not need another P. Ramlee. One of him is enough. And he would definitely want to admit it if he is still alive. Only those who can’t be better than P. Ramlee will want to use him for self-promotion. It also reflects their limited knowledge in the development of the arts and the cinema.
That there can never be another da Vince, Rembrandt, or Charlie Chaplin. There can also never be another Tunku Abdul Rahman and Mahathir.
Yet, the so-called economists and other experts have not even said anything original. That they do not even know how we have enough intelligence and creativity to create the New Malaysian Cinema, the New Malay Cinema or Sinema Nusantara and the New Islamic Cinema.
These are lucrative business which can involve scores of thousands of intelligent and creative people that we already have in the country; yet, the so-called experts have all neglected to take them into account when they proposed new development plans for the country.Even the political leaders are dumb on this issue that they do not know what new industries that the country can have which can benefit it as much as those who are very much into their activities.
We have had enough of the badly-trained economists and other intellectuals, experts and think-tankers who have not said anything interesting or intelligent by my standards. They are too narrow-minded and conceited to be useful to the real cause.
They mostly know how to analyze the situation but without giving proposals on how to create new industries and jobs for the fast expanding population and to readjust the economic, social and cultural and even political discrepancies. Their ideas are not original but copycat ones.
Can we do away with ISIS and the other think-tanks and experts who are already in their post-retirement age, including Kay Kim and the others?
And no, we do not need more than one Jawhar, Arif Muhammad, Zainal Aznam and Zeti Avter and Ungku Aziz.
There is one prominent economist who claimed to be an expert on rural poverty. But since there is still poverty in the rural areas, then can we say that his presence and thesis are totally useless because they have not managed to solve this problem for which he had spent a considerable time in his life to study?
So, no, we do not have yet, an expert in rural poverty. But we have intellectuals who have poor intellect.
How far and wide, have any of our economists or experts gone to in the country to know what the ground wants? They have gone to abroad to study, by bypassing this interesting experience in their adult life of learning the ropes and getting to know the ground.
They went to America and England and remained aloof to what the people and country really need.
So no wonder, we have not got any real expert in any field of specialization and who can be counted on and looked up at by anyone, other than them behaving like officials who spout predictable comments on the state of the economy of the country and get away with it.
No wonder, too, no Malaysian expert can be recognized for what they think they are abroad. And once they retire from their cushy posts, they are immediately forgotten even by their immediate successors who will repeat the same mistakes their predecessors had made.
Malaysia deserves better. We deserve to have better qualified experts in economics, history and everything, including the cinema.
By right we should have got the best cinema in the Muslim and Third Worlds that creates new works for the new world.
Unfortunately, this has not happened because the cinema is being dominated by the same old Jalan Ampas crowd and their supporters who only want to retain their official posts but without offering new and interesting ideas on how to create the New Malaysian Cinema and New Islamic Cinema, for the country and Malay World and Muslim World, respectively.
Yes, we can trounce Hollywood – I mean, the Old Hollywood because it is already too old to be useful to the New World, Post-911.
Malaysia can never ever capitalize on its talents, because the experts that we have are all poorly trained.
I pity the economists, especially those who have their doctorates from Harvard and Oxford, who seem to be poorly trained. So no wonder none of them has said anything which is original.
I dread it each time I hear Governor of Bank Negara, the national bank of Malaysia says something, because she sounds like a parrot, spouting something all of us had heard countless number of times before. Can’t she say something original for a change?
The other Harvard and Oxford-trained economists are no better.
What’s wrong with our economists? What’s wrong with our historians?
I also dread it each time I hear any comment on the history of the country from Kay Kim, the doyen of history in the country. Or is he just now a folk story-teller? He has not said anything spectacular with reference to the history of the country.
Even for not being able to say much, he has become the unlikely history expert, and for being a Chinese who has not spoken publicly in any Chinese dialect, but only in English and Malay, he has also become an important figure in the country – a much sought after speaker and commentator on a host of things, including sports, which finally led him to be given a high national title.
No wonder our psychologists, too, sound like they are arm-chair experts. They do not deal with real issues, but imaginary ones, mostly those experienced by Americans that they have read of in the international media, and other journals.
So no wonder, they are also interested to talk about the same psychological issues Americans face like they are also the types that Malaysians should face, especially when they talk about ‘anger management’ and ‘stress’ – these are two problems Malaysians hardly suffered from, before they were imported into the country, via the poorly trained psychologists.
And no thanks to them, some Malaysians are now suffering from these psychological ailments.
What they had done, in fact, is to give us the problems while the country finds the patients for them. How cunning.
I also feel sorry for our think-tankers that we have, all of whom do not sound like they are intelligent.
What else can we say about them? They and the other experts in economy were not the ones who introduced low-cost air traveling into the country with the creation of AirAsia, but one Tony Fernandes, who through his vision or simply outrageous dream had created a new Malaysian sensation which had benefited the country even more, by providing many jobs and encouraging many Malaysians to dare to dream.
Tony seemed to have benefited from his studies and stay in England and working in the music industry. So he was in tune with the country and had his feet firmly on the ground, compared to the other economists and experts who were looking elsewhere.
Even the politicians and other leaders did not dare to think that a low-cost airline like AirAsia could someday become such a prominent company in the country, and in a relatively short period of time, become a major contributing factor to its growth.
It won’t be long before AirAsia becomes the unofficial national airline of the country, if they can push aside Malaysia Airlines (MAS), whose gold shine seems to have faded a while ago. But it is slowly coming back.
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