MONOPOLY killed America and many other nations. The capitalist world is collapsing under its own weight.

In Malaysia, the game is "rent-seeking" monopoly and of "interlocking directorateships" especially in the GLCs government-linked companies.

The rakyat/masses are merely spectator happy to read about first Malaysian billionaires, world-class Malaysian companies, and who's who in the Malaysian corporate world.

The rakyat are happy that they now can fly cheap, that they are reading about how famous Malaysia is as a great "medical tourism" destination, and which Bollywood star will get a Datuk Seri-ship.

We are a nation, like Sisyphus -- imagining ourselves happy. In a country where the few monopolizes and the need for greed is growing at a great speed. It is as if the few wants to plunder the nation as fast as they can before the entire country, like the story of Firaun/Pharaoh and Qarun in the ancient scriptures, is swallowed by the weight of power, arrogance, and wealth accumulated.

God Bless my country -- right or wrong.



But the rakyat must rise against the greedy few.