WHY MUST DISCORDANT VOICES AND RESTLESS THOUGHTS BE GIVEN THE UNDUE ATTENTION THAT THEY DO NOT DESERVE?
…ISN’T THE DEMOCRATIC PROCESS ENOUGH TO GET THE COUNTRY GOING THAT PERHAPS SHOULD BE REPLACED BY ANARCHY INSTEAD?
By Mansor Puteh
WHERE IN THE WORLD WHERE ANARCHY HAS SERVED THE PEOPLE AND COUNTRY?
AND JUST HOW LONG CAN THE POLITICAL BLOGGERS SUSTAIN INTERESTS IN THE DICHTOMY?
AND HOW LONG CAN THEIR FOLLOWERS ACCEPT THEM FOR WHAT THEY THINK THEY ARE, BEFORE THEY START TO WISEN UP TO REALIZE THEIR OWN FOLLY ABOUT BEING TAKEN FOR A RIDE TOO LONG?
Unfortunately, these are the questions many of the followers of the bloggers and commentators who hide behind pseudonyms have to ask themselves.
Many have already gone bored with the incessant bickering on issues which are not so important to many, buy can distract just a few.
Discordant voice are getting louder and louder in Malaysia, with some Malaysians who are still in awe of the power they now have with their mouse, keyboard and websites or blogs sounding more discordant and out of tune the more they write and the more they believe in what they say. They have indeed become too self-serving and tooooo-self-righteous to be wrong. No one is right. They are right; no one is right; they are all wrong.
And thanks to the internet and blogging, those who once were voiceless are not loud-mouths. Many, who did not care for the issues, now care to issue notices to everybody to say he is the real unrecognized authority in the country.
But alas, those who hide behind pseudonyms are not real people; they could be robots. Worse, if they cannot be physically around to defend their words can be said to be afraid of his own words, for they don’t go by their own words and anybody’s books. They have their own way of doing things and they don’t care for fair-play. They only have platitudes to get them going.
Sometimes they exhibit histrionics and hysterics and lots of them. But alas, too, they blast anyone they please.
In the end, the country cannot be dictated by the few jottings of such persons and those who post comments on their pieces, since we have an established system that keeps the country and society in place.
They have their own ideas on how to go about doing things, but they cannot insist that they are right.
And America, or the west, too, which cares for human rights as much as most Malaysians, must accept that the political process is over after the general elections so those who lost in them should wait out to the next opportunity for them to come out again with new strategies to wrest control of the government and hence, country.
They cannot do it after the general elections, just as those in the developed countries who stay away from the limelight and not post comments or criticism on the government of the day, so if they do not perform, it is better for their opposition to highlight what they are in the next general elections campaign.
This is how they should do it, and not to criticize and campaign everyday.
The truth is that they idle; they know they will wilt if they do not cry foul of anything. They know also that the crowds of supporters who trail them will dissipate once they show that they had waned.
So they have to insist that they are still relevant so they cry foul of anything.
If there are no scandals or controversies, they can create some, to keep themselves going.
The truth also is that the Malaysian public, especially the Melayu are idle; they do not have entertainment outlets to distract them. They know they cannot release their tension and gripe doing other things. So they end up taking close interest in the post-elections debates. These seem to thrill them.
But most of all, the democratic process is also wrong. They know that there is another process, post-general elections that stretch to prior to the next general elections to be the real space to express their own version of democracy.
Where in the world where such an opportunity is given to some of the citizens of the country, so they can continue to campaign and go on a rampage, with crowds of people who are held in trance of not knowing what the speakers are saying to be a repeat of what they had said in their campaigns during the last general elections?
Only in Malaysia where political campaigning is still done even after the general elections are held and votes counted and tabulated. Those who win seats in parliament and the state assemblies are busy with work. Or are they?
No wonder parliament is half-empty for most of the time. And the debates are atrociously of poor quality and substance.
Most of the members are part-timers; they have other jobs and businesses to look after, so them becoming members of parliament and the state assemblies ends up a part-time job or worse, a hobby for them.
And no wonder too, many of the politicians are busier with their work in their legal firms where they often bring their pending court cases to parliament.
They have not been known to look after the welfare of their constituencies so trains still remain clogged and roads untarred or filled with potholes. Do they care for their constituencies?
They seem to care for their legal careers.
And most of the lawyers-cum-members of parliament have the same issues to deal with. And for the many decades they are in politics and the parliament they have been known to care only for the same social, cultural and religious issues.
Mostly they care for the sensitive ones that attract the most public and media attention.
They don’t seem to be able to live if they are not embroiled in any political dispute; they enjoy being hurt and hurting the others, if they can.
Is this what Malaysian politics have come to, even after more than half a century since Merdeka or Independence, the level of political discourses in the country is still at a very low level.
The same issues are being debated, like there are no others that they can bring to parliament or to the media and public attention.
How many of their counterparts in Singapura and the other countries, especially in America who are like them, who are able to take issues of some public concern and turn them into a media circus?
In the end the members of parliament are not so; they are mostly like those loud-mouths who spout the same pre-Merdeka slogans. They are therefore, more than half a century too late in their thinking.
And this has also affected those who blog, too, who seem to think they can be the judge and executioner all at the same time. They despise authority and chide the uniformed organizations and also the judiciary. They know better than anyone.
But alas, what the do not know and will continue to refuse to know is that these are established organizations and agencies with formal and official authorities under the constitution that allows them to do what they are supposed to do.
Whereas the bloggers can only charge that to be inconsequential, that they know everything better.
But alas, what they know is just to ask, ‘Why is that so?’ and they can get a new article on within minutes however scandalous and ridiculous it may be. They don’t care as long as they can ask so they must insist that they are right.
What they do not know is that they can only ask but they have to accept the fact that the answers to their queries may not be what they expect.
Let’s change the situation and try and see if the bloggers and the other loud-mouths take over the administration of the country; can we see them doing things better?
By Mansor Puteh
WHERE IN THE WORLD WHERE ANARCHY HAS SERVED THE PEOPLE AND COUNTRY?
AND JUST HOW LONG CAN THE POLITICAL BLOGGERS SUSTAIN INTERESTS IN THE DICHTOMY?
AND HOW LONG CAN THEIR FOLLOWERS ACCEPT THEM FOR WHAT THEY THINK THEY ARE, BEFORE THEY START TO WISEN UP TO REALIZE THEIR OWN FOLLY ABOUT BEING TAKEN FOR A RIDE TOO LONG?
Unfortunately, these are the questions many of the followers of the bloggers and commentators who hide behind pseudonyms have to ask themselves.
Many have already gone bored with the incessant bickering on issues which are not so important to many, buy can distract just a few.
Discordant voice are getting louder and louder in Malaysia, with some Malaysians who are still in awe of the power they now have with their mouse, keyboard and websites or blogs sounding more discordant and out of tune the more they write and the more they believe in what they say. They have indeed become too self-serving and tooooo-self-righteous to be wrong. No one is right. They are right; no one is right; they are all wrong.
And thanks to the internet and blogging, those who once were voiceless are not loud-mouths. Many, who did not care for the issues, now care to issue notices to everybody to say he is the real unrecognized authority in the country.
But alas, those who hide behind pseudonyms are not real people; they could be robots. Worse, if they cannot be physically around to defend their words can be said to be afraid of his own words, for they don’t go by their own words and anybody’s books. They have their own way of doing things and they don’t care for fair-play. They only have platitudes to get them going.
Sometimes they exhibit histrionics and hysterics and lots of them. But alas, too, they blast anyone they please.
In the end, the country cannot be dictated by the few jottings of such persons and those who post comments on their pieces, since we have an established system that keeps the country and society in place.
They have their own ideas on how to go about doing things, but they cannot insist that they are right.
And America, or the west, too, which cares for human rights as much as most Malaysians, must accept that the political process is over after the general elections so those who lost in them should wait out to the next opportunity for them to come out again with new strategies to wrest control of the government and hence, country.
They cannot do it after the general elections, just as those in the developed countries who stay away from the limelight and not post comments or criticism on the government of the day, so if they do not perform, it is better for their opposition to highlight what they are in the next general elections campaign.
This is how they should do it, and not to criticize and campaign everyday.
The truth is that they idle; they know they will wilt if they do not cry foul of anything. They know also that the crowds of supporters who trail them will dissipate once they show that they had waned.
So they have to insist that they are still relevant so they cry foul of anything.
If there are no scandals or controversies, they can create some, to keep themselves going.
The truth also is that the Malaysian public, especially the Melayu are idle; they do not have entertainment outlets to distract them. They know they cannot release their tension and gripe doing other things. So they end up taking close interest in the post-elections debates. These seem to thrill them.
But most of all, the democratic process is also wrong. They know that there is another process, post-general elections that stretch to prior to the next general elections to be the real space to express their own version of democracy.
Where in the world where such an opportunity is given to some of the citizens of the country, so they can continue to campaign and go on a rampage, with crowds of people who are held in trance of not knowing what the speakers are saying to be a repeat of what they had said in their campaigns during the last general elections?
Only in Malaysia where political campaigning is still done even after the general elections are held and votes counted and tabulated. Those who win seats in parliament and the state assemblies are busy with work. Or are they?
No wonder parliament is half-empty for most of the time. And the debates are atrociously of poor quality and substance.
Most of the members are part-timers; they have other jobs and businesses to look after, so them becoming members of parliament and the state assemblies ends up a part-time job or worse, a hobby for them.
And no wonder too, many of the politicians are busier with their work in their legal firms where they often bring their pending court cases to parliament.
They have not been known to look after the welfare of their constituencies so trains still remain clogged and roads untarred or filled with potholes. Do they care for their constituencies?
They seem to care for their legal careers.
And most of the lawyers-cum-members of parliament have the same issues to deal with. And for the many decades they are in politics and the parliament they have been known to care only for the same social, cultural and religious issues.
Mostly they care for the sensitive ones that attract the most public and media attention.
They don’t seem to be able to live if they are not embroiled in any political dispute; they enjoy being hurt and hurting the others, if they can.
Is this what Malaysian politics have come to, even after more than half a century since Merdeka or Independence, the level of political discourses in the country is still at a very low level.
The same issues are being debated, like there are no others that they can bring to parliament or to the media and public attention.
How many of their counterparts in Singapura and the other countries, especially in America who are like them, who are able to take issues of some public concern and turn them into a media circus?
In the end the members of parliament are not so; they are mostly like those loud-mouths who spout the same pre-Merdeka slogans. They are therefore, more than half a century too late in their thinking.
And this has also affected those who blog, too, who seem to think they can be the judge and executioner all at the same time. They despise authority and chide the uniformed organizations and also the judiciary. They know better than anyone.
But alas, what the do not know and will continue to refuse to know is that these are established organizations and agencies with formal and official authorities under the constitution that allows them to do what they are supposed to do.
Whereas the bloggers can only charge that to be inconsequential, that they know everything better.
But alas, what they know is just to ask, ‘Why is that so?’ and they can get a new article on within minutes however scandalous and ridiculous it may be. They don’t care as long as they can ask so they must insist that they are right.
What they do not know is that they can only ask but they have to accept the fact that the answers to their queries may not be what they expect.
Let’s change the situation and try and see if the bloggers and the other loud-mouths take over the administration of the country; can we see them doing things better?
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