On a serious note..

Some people might be born lucky. They have never been on the disadvantaged or discriminated against side of life. In this country, born Malay, they have only known the beneficial effects of the affirmative policy. Working in the non-discriminated-against department of my company, they have only known life with a big budget for departmental entertainment and social events, departmental getaways to island resorts, etc. Having never faced any part of life in the disadvantaged sector, they naturally like things the way they are, and want things status quo. To them, it boils down to: this current government and its policies help ME enjoy riches and privileges, so I’ll keep voting for it. The regards of the victims of this government and its so called ‘privileges’ and the largesse the minority are enjoying as a result of the government playing Robin Hood and unfairly taking from the rich and capable to the detriment of the nation are utterly ignored.

Hence they will vote the BN again and its people like that who will ensure this country will never improve and never change. Despite acknowledging that our neighbours are prospering although we have more natural resources and manpower, and thus have a better government than us, they still fail to see that the reason why we are falling behind everyone else is this government and its policies, hence dooming us to a perhaps irreversible sequence of events that will lead inexorably to us reverting back eventually to the Third World country we’ve never really not been.

On another note, I had an interesting conversation over lunch with a fellow Scholar. You know how religion teaches us not to do something ‘bad’ (e.g.: steal) because God’s retribution will be to cast us into hell or something bad like that? Hence children do not misbehave because they FEAR the punishment, although they have no concept of what this punishment, this Hell, Heaven, God is. But children should not be brought up to do the right thing out of fear of the punishment of doing the wrong thing. Children should be brought up to do the right thing because it is the right thing. They should not take what does not belong to them and has not been given to them with permission etc.