NAMEWEE AND THE OTHER TALENT NOT FULLY UTILIZED. – PART I.
…RELEASES HOT AIR WHICH CAUSES SOME TO FUME AND RELEASE MORE HOT AIR, AND FROTH IN THE MOUTH.
by Mansor Puteh
THE GOVERNMENT MUST BE FAULTED FOR PUSHING THE CREATIVE, TALENTED AND INNOVATORS TO THE OTHER SIDE WHEN THEY COULD HAVE UTILIZED THEM TO CREATE WONDERS TO PROMOTE THE 1MALAYSIA CONCEPT SO THAT IT IS NOT JUST AN EMPTY SLOGAN DEVOID OF ANY SUBSTANCE AND MEANING.
DESPITE THE GOVERNMENT’S CURRENT RAGE ON THE SLOGANEERING ON CREATIVITY AND INNOVATIONS, THIS IS NOT THE AGE OF SUCH IN THE COUNTRY.
THEY ARE NOT DOING THEMSELVES A SERVICE FOR BEING TOO INCONSIDERATE AND INSENSITIVE WHO LIKE TO FUME WHEN SOME OF THEM RELEASE HOT AIR.
It means that the development of the country is too stilted to support those in commerce and industry but not to develop the creative industry.
So the price they have to pay is to see how many of the young and eager going to the other side. More will follow suit if the problem is not addressed.
In fact if the opposition are smart, they can take full advantage of this sad situation by giving those who have been disenfranchised by the government to come to their side.
The only thing that they can do is to devise plans that those who are creative and talented to be able to express themselves more and in better ways. Because they are image creators and they can change old images and help to create new ones.
This is what the opposition in Malaysia must do immediately instead of sowing discord and creative more fiction; all of which are bad for them.
They must learn fast and not to continue to engage the old guards who had graved the opposition turf too long. Let them go away free to roam other pastures and allow the new generation of people who are better educated to take over the mantle of oppositioning in the country.
They can indeed serve the cause better than the Karpals, Gobinds, Kit Siangs, Guan Engs, Teresas, etc., etc. can.
Surely the opposition can say we have better people who are batter than Rais Yatim, Nazri, Hishamuddin, Sharizat, Khairy, Mukhriz and the others, and here they are.
In this way the public and potential voters can see for themselves how the opposition do have a better group of people who can manage the country.
The only problem is that the opposition has old goats who had roamed the political terrain in the country too long; they had become too callous to realize that they are not humans anymore.
They think too much of themselves to know what is good for the public and country.
So in many ways they are no better or worse than those in the government who have also been grazing the government turf too long.
The opposition simply has to get rid of the Anwars, together with the rest. He is only good at dissenting, but not good at offering new ideas which are practical that the voters can buy.
He is still Umno and Barisan in the guise of the opposition. He has the baggage of history which used to glow, until some personal matters crept from behind the political landscape of the country to taint his image.
In a country where a serious charge can be damning, he has so far managed to hang on to the sentiments of his past achievements which provide him some relief and reprieve.
But what if the people suddenly realize their folly and just want to close the chapter on him and move on? Anwar will be gone. He will be history.
The Melayu will then find they do not need him anymore for he does not offer them much of a future anyway.
What Namewee has done is just one of those effects of the neglect of the talented and qualified.
They were many others who are not talented so they still end up on the other side, serving the opposition and opposition-friendly NGOs and other organizations and groups.
I can sympathize with the personal angst of this guy calling himself Namewee.
His call for attention in his own way, using crude ways imported directly from sixties American artistic expressive methods meant mostly for sidebar exhibitions and protestations, has caused some consternation to him.
But this could reflect badly and poorly on his political, artistic and cultural influences.
And if he is charged for any act, and punished in court for the charges, then he can go down in history as some who had done nothing more than mischief. It has not caused the ire of the public, but that of just a few.
He claimed to have been emotionally charged by the uttering of a Sino-Melayu teacher in Kedah who remarked how the Chinese were like ‘penumpang’ or passengers.
But at the same time the teacher could have also given the excuse that she was provoked by the more racist uttering of the Chinese and Indians on many sensitive issues. So the cycle goes on and on until one realizes that Malaysia is badly segmented not only between the haves and have-not, but also by the way their citizens are educated – in the national school and the vernacular schools.
Do the non-Melayu in Malaysia want to it this way and consider new options so that their young can start to live new lives amongst the others who comprise of the majority in the country?
The exertions of the shrinking minorities in Malaysia are causing friction.
The self-denial syndrome their community and political leaders and some in the legal profession have made some sensitive matters more confusing than they were. And the way the majority Melayu try to solve such problems have caused more friction.
They are charged for not being sensitive to the needs of the minority, while the minority try to let everybody think that they can dominate all discourses and challenge the status quo in the post general elections era.
It is strange how such issues are not discussed or included in the manifestoes of their parties during the elections, but only emerge after and before that.
This, therefore, is the root of the problem when one is exposed to different influences that make one feel alienated and strange.
Alas, the authorities are not too educated on such artistic and cultural movements found it easy to belittle such efforts.
This is fodder to those who exists in their small racists pockets who see nothing beyond what is obvious, and not what it is meant to be or mean. The means used are of no use to them. Only the ends that they see and imagine are.
This proves the depravity of their intellect and cultural and artistic awareness.
Being a Taiwan-educated person and wanting to return to the country so he could be of any use to it has proven to be such a futile effort.
And this is what's shocking. It is less so if he had returned from America where he could be said to have been influenced by their artistic expressive ways so he can be forgiven for his artistic mischief and visual as well as oral pranks.
by Mansor Puteh
THE GOVERNMENT MUST BE FAULTED FOR PUSHING THE CREATIVE, TALENTED AND INNOVATORS TO THE OTHER SIDE WHEN THEY COULD HAVE UTILIZED THEM TO CREATE WONDERS TO PROMOTE THE 1MALAYSIA CONCEPT SO THAT IT IS NOT JUST AN EMPTY SLOGAN DEVOID OF ANY SUBSTANCE AND MEANING.
DESPITE THE GOVERNMENT’S CURRENT RAGE ON THE SLOGANEERING ON CREATIVITY AND INNOVATIONS, THIS IS NOT THE AGE OF SUCH IN THE COUNTRY.
THEY ARE NOT DOING THEMSELVES A SERVICE FOR BEING TOO INCONSIDERATE AND INSENSITIVE WHO LIKE TO FUME WHEN SOME OF THEM RELEASE HOT AIR.
It means that the development of the country is too stilted to support those in commerce and industry but not to develop the creative industry.
So the price they have to pay is to see how many of the young and eager going to the other side. More will follow suit if the problem is not addressed.
In fact if the opposition are smart, they can take full advantage of this sad situation by giving those who have been disenfranchised by the government to come to their side.
The only thing that they can do is to devise plans that those who are creative and talented to be able to express themselves more and in better ways. Because they are image creators and they can change old images and help to create new ones.
This is what the opposition in Malaysia must do immediately instead of sowing discord and creative more fiction; all of which are bad for them.
They must learn fast and not to continue to engage the old guards who had graved the opposition turf too long. Let them go away free to roam other pastures and allow the new generation of people who are better educated to take over the mantle of oppositioning in the country.
They can indeed serve the cause better than the Karpals, Gobinds, Kit Siangs, Guan Engs, Teresas, etc., etc. can.
Surely the opposition can say we have better people who are batter than Rais Yatim, Nazri, Hishamuddin, Sharizat, Khairy, Mukhriz and the others, and here they are.
In this way the public and potential voters can see for themselves how the opposition do have a better group of people who can manage the country.
The only problem is that the opposition has old goats who had roamed the political terrain in the country too long; they had become too callous to realize that they are not humans anymore.
They think too much of themselves to know what is good for the public and country.
So in many ways they are no better or worse than those in the government who have also been grazing the government turf too long.
The opposition simply has to get rid of the Anwars, together with the rest. He is only good at dissenting, but not good at offering new ideas which are practical that the voters can buy.
He is still Umno and Barisan in the guise of the opposition. He has the baggage of history which used to glow, until some personal matters crept from behind the political landscape of the country to taint his image.
In a country where a serious charge can be damning, he has so far managed to hang on to the sentiments of his past achievements which provide him some relief and reprieve.
But what if the people suddenly realize their folly and just want to close the chapter on him and move on? Anwar will be gone. He will be history.
The Melayu will then find they do not need him anymore for he does not offer them much of a future anyway.
What Namewee has done is just one of those effects of the neglect of the talented and qualified.
They were many others who are not talented so they still end up on the other side, serving the opposition and opposition-friendly NGOs and other organizations and groups.
I can sympathize with the personal angst of this guy calling himself Namewee.
His call for attention in his own way, using crude ways imported directly from sixties American artistic expressive methods meant mostly for sidebar exhibitions and protestations, has caused some consternation to him.
But this could reflect badly and poorly on his political, artistic and cultural influences.
And if he is charged for any act, and punished in court for the charges, then he can go down in history as some who had done nothing more than mischief. It has not caused the ire of the public, but that of just a few.
He claimed to have been emotionally charged by the uttering of a Sino-Melayu teacher in Kedah who remarked how the Chinese were like ‘penumpang’ or passengers.
But at the same time the teacher could have also given the excuse that she was provoked by the more racist uttering of the Chinese and Indians on many sensitive issues. So the cycle goes on and on until one realizes that Malaysia is badly segmented not only between the haves and have-not, but also by the way their citizens are educated – in the national school and the vernacular schools.
Do the non-Melayu in Malaysia want to it this way and consider new options so that their young can start to live new lives amongst the others who comprise of the majority in the country?
The exertions of the shrinking minorities in Malaysia are causing friction.
The self-denial syndrome their community and political leaders and some in the legal profession have made some sensitive matters more confusing than they were. And the way the majority Melayu try to solve such problems have caused more friction.
They are charged for not being sensitive to the needs of the minority, while the minority try to let everybody think that they can dominate all discourses and challenge the status quo in the post general elections era.
It is strange how such issues are not discussed or included in the manifestoes of their parties during the elections, but only emerge after and before that.
This, therefore, is the root of the problem when one is exposed to different influences that make one feel alienated and strange.
Alas, the authorities are not too educated on such artistic and cultural movements found it easy to belittle such efforts.
This is fodder to those who exists in their small racists pockets who see nothing beyond what is obvious, and not what it is meant to be or mean. The means used are of no use to them. Only the ends that they see and imagine are.
This proves the depravity of their intellect and cultural and artistic awareness.
Being a Taiwan-educated person and wanting to return to the country so he could be of any use to it has proven to be such a futile effort.
And this is what's shocking. It is less so if he had returned from America where he could be said to have been influenced by their artistic expressive ways so he can be forgiven for his artistic mischief and visual as well as oral pranks.
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