A FEW MARCHES TO LAST

The figures are quite staggering but not, really so perhaps, nine thousand here and another two there. The littlest of whispers that was amplified, so, as, to make every ear drum burst, the objective primarily to induce some form of panic situations that the ones still unsure would be petrified. They could all along lose the few things that should be theirs and none of the others must ever covet. Institutions that bear their marks along with their identity, even though the mere suggesting of a miniscule opening in order to allow a fraction of the minutest of real world experience. To interplay with their arcane albeit regimented training modules, the resulting effect would only be to encourage beneficial review of dated mindsets and activate wholesome paradigm shifts perfectly attuned to the vagaries of global realities. Refusing in totality the necessary recommendations would inexorably eventuate in their collective awareness being all, the, more cocooned in its own pitiable irrelevance. The fact that change is the most constant of all circumstances belies their debilitating inactions. The young ones were brainwashed into blindly concurring with their conniving elders, of whom, fanned their fragile presentiments of congenital birthrights threatened without due recourse. The superiors having formalized guilds indoctrinating their bright- eyed members goes to show their preponderance towards political survivability at whatever costs. They do not care that their much myopic viewpoints produce only unflinching narrow mindedness and base parochialism in the young initiates, very fragile collective consciousness. The onus upon an undisturbed perpetuation of unholy pillage, along with, a remorseless yet veritably- gross mismanagement of the nation’s economy restricted any inclinations of lofty idealisms if ever seeing any light of day. The far- reaching notions, being, fast discarded by the policy makers into the surreal domains of intellectual dementia makes nation building, a praxis morphed into a polymorphous figuration of short- sighted ethnocentricity. By, the same token the ruling coalition’s time attested but chronologically faulted race based methodology, must distinctively, be subverted in that a synergetic arrangement would arrive in replacement. Instead of a race, in supremacy- jaded battle cry the insuppressible catch- word should instinctively be the citizenry or the rakyat in superiority thus transcending all racialist inklings inherent throughout the homeland. Too high sounding perhaps but the euphoria of a hundred or more thousand people accompanying Anwar’s nomination last Saturday bears testimony to exactly that. Merdeka3! And how appropriate.