MALAYSIAN POLITICS IS AT THE ANAL STAGE OR SECOND CHILDHOOD. – PART II.
…NO OLD MALAYSIAN POLITICIAN HAS BEEN KNOWN TO HAVE MOVED ON TO DO BETTER THINGS IN THE NEXT STAGE OF THEIR POLITICAL AND PERSONAL LIFE AND BE FETED AROUND THE WORLD…AND THE POOR STATE OF OLD MALAYSIAN INTELLECTUALISM.
By Mansor Puteh
FOR HOW LONG WILL THE CURRENT GENERATION OF OLD HATS AND OLD GOATS IN OLD MALAYSIAN POLITICS BE ALLOWED TO CONTINUE TO REIGN?
AND WHEN CAN NEW MALAYSIAN POLITICS BE CREATED SO WE CAN MOVE ON FROM WHERE THE OTHERS HAD LEFT?
IN FACT, EVEN MALAYSIAN INTELLECTUALISM IS OLD AND DATED. IT HAS TO BE UPDATED WITH THE EMERGENCE OF NEW INTELLECTUALS WITH THE RETIRED AND DISCARDED INTELLECTUALS AND FORMER ACADEMICIANS REPLACED.
So it means that old professors don’t die, they just move along…feeling unashamed for using their brains which had become drained with new ideas or views on anything and are willing to share some old and refurnished ones with everybody.
It is therefore ironic how old academics and former university professors are given more attention when they retire from the university than when they were in it.
There is even some who suddenly appeared from nowhere to run for election for the opposition.
Who was they were when they were teaching at the university? No one knew them then and no one wants to know them even now.
If they were not able to attract much attention when they were attached to the universities, then why should they be given more attention now that they have retired?
Some of them have suddenly become centers of attention and their views sought even thought their views may not be much. And they are given high honorific titles to add to the earlier academic titles that they had got while teaching at the university.
They have no shame or self-respect for using the titles of their past jobs at the university like it is a permanent post.
The end of Mahathrism has not caused that to happen. But it can only happen if he has given up on politics since he represents the best of the crop of old hat.
He is ‘aided’ by Anwar Ibrahim who seems to have taken Malaysian politics to a stunted level.
And in some ways, PAS’ Nik Aziz too can be blamed for having stunted Malaysian politics with his own peculiar way of wanting to be in the same picture as the rest of the flock.
The others are Kit Siang, Karpal Singh of the DAP and Hadi Awang and Mustafa Ali of PAS.
To these old men, move on I say…and move on to a higher level of existence and go international with Nik Aziz becoming – if he can – get better recognized as a religious leader.
Unfortunately, he has not been able to do much and has never been known to have been invited to talk on Islam even in the neighboring countries.
The reason being he is a politician and Islamic leaders’ views on Islam can always be questioned simply because they are always clouded and blinded by their narrow political ideology and those of their party.
In fact, the other old politicians too have not been known to be interesting speakers on international issues in international forums with Kit Siang not having been invited to speak on international Chinese issues and matters in Hong Kong, Taiwan or China.
In fact, he has also not been known to have spoken in public forums in Singapura.
Karpal has also not been known to have been sough for his views on law outside of Malaysia.
So now everybody can see why these old politicians stick to what they have been doing all these years since Merdeka, and they do not seem to be able to move on.
So they stick around for as long as they are allowed to do physically simply because political life in Malaysia is too limited and the experiences one can get from being involved in it are too repetitive so it does not mean much even if one has one hundred years of experience in politics in Malaysia as the real experience is too small to be recognized by anyone.
Worse, political activities in Malaysia can also cause the politicians to suffer from amnesia, where they easily forget what they had just said at the forum the night before.
Worse still, Malaysian politics can now be said to be in the anal stage. In simple English, it is called second childhood.
In some ways it is true.
There is no other time when Malaysian politicians are so enamored and focused on anals.
The courts and judges too must feel awkward to be involved in the scam of having to deal with annals and be part of the annals of old Malaysian politics and their generation of many weird politicians and political animals who seem to be able to have more than nine lives.
They emerge from one life to the next with party shirts of different colors and supporting new parties they created.
In many way it has especially if one looks at the front-pages of some newspapers and especially in certain blogs which like to hog on what’s being published on the front-pages of these papers and those that deal with certain political personalities in the country and the many other has-beens.
In medical term, the anal stage means ‘second childhood’, a stage where humans are supposed to get to once they are done with the other earlier stages, especially one starts to behave like babies again.
And it’s nothing to do whatsoever with the sodomy trial which is happening now.
By Mansor Puteh
FOR HOW LONG WILL THE CURRENT GENERATION OF OLD HATS AND OLD GOATS IN OLD MALAYSIAN POLITICS BE ALLOWED TO CONTINUE TO REIGN?
AND WHEN CAN NEW MALAYSIAN POLITICS BE CREATED SO WE CAN MOVE ON FROM WHERE THE OTHERS HAD LEFT?
IN FACT, EVEN MALAYSIAN INTELLECTUALISM IS OLD AND DATED. IT HAS TO BE UPDATED WITH THE EMERGENCE OF NEW INTELLECTUALS WITH THE RETIRED AND DISCARDED INTELLECTUALS AND FORMER ACADEMICIANS REPLACED.
So it means that old professors don’t die, they just move along…feeling unashamed for using their brains which had become drained with new ideas or views on anything and are willing to share some old and refurnished ones with everybody.
It is therefore ironic how old academics and former university professors are given more attention when they retire from the university than when they were in it.
There is even some who suddenly appeared from nowhere to run for election for the opposition.
Who was they were when they were teaching at the university? No one knew them then and no one wants to know them even now.
If they were not able to attract much attention when they were attached to the universities, then why should they be given more attention now that they have retired?
Some of them have suddenly become centers of attention and their views sought even thought their views may not be much. And they are given high honorific titles to add to the earlier academic titles that they had got while teaching at the university.
They have no shame or self-respect for using the titles of their past jobs at the university like it is a permanent post.
The end of Mahathrism has not caused that to happen. But it can only happen if he has given up on politics since he represents the best of the crop of old hat.
He is ‘aided’ by Anwar Ibrahim who seems to have taken Malaysian politics to a stunted level.
And in some ways, PAS’ Nik Aziz too can be blamed for having stunted Malaysian politics with his own peculiar way of wanting to be in the same picture as the rest of the flock.
The others are Kit Siang, Karpal Singh of the DAP and Hadi Awang and Mustafa Ali of PAS.
To these old men, move on I say…and move on to a higher level of existence and go international with Nik Aziz becoming – if he can – get better recognized as a religious leader.
Unfortunately, he has not been able to do much and has never been known to have been invited to talk on Islam even in the neighboring countries.
The reason being he is a politician and Islamic leaders’ views on Islam can always be questioned simply because they are always clouded and blinded by their narrow political ideology and those of their party.
In fact, the other old politicians too have not been known to be interesting speakers on international issues in international forums with Kit Siang not having been invited to speak on international Chinese issues and matters in Hong Kong, Taiwan or China.
In fact, he has also not been known to have spoken in public forums in Singapura.
Karpal has also not been known to have been sough for his views on law outside of Malaysia.
So now everybody can see why these old politicians stick to what they have been doing all these years since Merdeka, and they do not seem to be able to move on.
So they stick around for as long as they are allowed to do physically simply because political life in Malaysia is too limited and the experiences one can get from being involved in it are too repetitive so it does not mean much even if one has one hundred years of experience in politics in Malaysia as the real experience is too small to be recognized by anyone.
Worse, political activities in Malaysia can also cause the politicians to suffer from amnesia, where they easily forget what they had just said at the forum the night before.
Worse still, Malaysian politics can now be said to be in the anal stage. In simple English, it is called second childhood.
In some ways it is true.
There is no other time when Malaysian politicians are so enamored and focused on anals.
The courts and judges too must feel awkward to be involved in the scam of having to deal with annals and be part of the annals of old Malaysian politics and their generation of many weird politicians and political animals who seem to be able to have more than nine lives.
They emerge from one life to the next with party shirts of different colors and supporting new parties they created.
In many way it has especially if one looks at the front-pages of some newspapers and especially in certain blogs which like to hog on what’s being published on the front-pages of these papers and those that deal with certain political personalities in the country and the many other has-beens.
In medical term, the anal stage means ‘second childhood’, a stage where humans are supposed to get to once they are done with the other earlier stages, especially one starts to behave like babies again.
And it’s nothing to do whatsoever with the sodomy trial which is happening now.
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