According to government figures, only 7 percent of students in national schools are non-Malays. Parents fear sending their children from their past experience of the government ......
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“All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.??? (Noam Chomsky) “The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.??? (Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826)
Is the death of distance nearer to us than our jugular vein?
Which stream is the mainstream media drowning in? It has forced us to drink too much from the River of Forgetfulness. It has shaped the consciousness of Malaysian citizens - they are now happily indoctrinated, blessed to be alive in a totalitarian state and constantly reminded by the state to count their blessings.
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Two Hills were won – Bukit Selambau and Bukit Gantang.
I still remember when I was a child; the name “Bukit Gantang??? is associated with a “panglima??? or a warrior of fierce look and disposition equipped with the keris, Steroid-pumped up body and a tanjak (headgear). Hence Panglima Bukit Gantang. “Gantang??? is a unit of measurement used to calibrate the amount of rice. A bigger unit than “secupak???. The more powerful one is in society, the more gantang one gets. The lower the rakyat is in rung of the “dog-eat-dog world???, the less “cupak??? one gets. That's the ugly side of the language of power/ideology/class of the people of "semangat padi".
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Question all historical ‘facts’
“Man has no nature… what he has is history,??? writes the Spanish philosopher Ortega y Gassett.
But whose history must man learn? Whose construction of history must we craft as official knowledge? What is the conception of human nature must we hold in writing about history? There are no historical ‘facts’. The term itself is an oxymoron and a contradiction. There are only selected memories we pursue out of our ideological biases. Underlying the selection process lie the act of historicising and the base and superstructure that shape the manner history is written. The modern state - the ‘necessary evil’- dictates the ideology of historicising; thus the maxim “winners write history, losers write poetry or study anthropology???.
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That is a two million ringgit question. Or maybe fifty million these days.
How much does one get for 'crossing over' these days? I do not know. But if there are millions of ringgit involved, this nation will continue to rot as corrupt politicians continue switching allegiances, getting appointments to good positions, and making horror decisions for you and your children.
We must destroy this culture and heal anew. There is no choice but a total destruction of this culture.
We were convinced things will be better after the elections. We were sure that the revolution was going to benefit the masses and no party hopping would occur.
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