Malaysia: A collapsing grand narrative

A collapsing grand narrative
by Azly Rahman
in ILLUMINATIONS, Malaysiakini

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What is ailing the society? Are you moving in to the final stages of social, political, as well as dignified annihilation, judging from the levels as well as forms of assault you have been saying emerging?

We see no apply oneself for the order of law, an augmenting opening in in between the abounding as well as the poor, celebrated consumption during the highest level of vulgarity, the stability electrocute of the voice of critical sensibility, the direction-less educational progress, prolongation of open statements championing racial as well as eremite bigotry, prostitutionalisation of the electoral process, drunkenness of politicians in aggressive pluralists as well as multiculturalists, fear as well as tremor on hearing the difference "socialism" as well as "communism" - all these have been indicators of the disharmony Malaysians have been experiencing in their try to understand where their leaders have been taking them as well as why this republic is being torn apart.

Has Malaysia made the wrong turn in conceptualising the economic, social, as well as domestic policies, merely transplanting the complement left by the colonials?

Have you nurtured the enlightenment which ensures the continuation of the complement of exploitation adorned with the faade of nationalism as well as nationalism derived from the much contest! ed ideol ogy of ketuanan Melayu which is quick losing the force of populism as well as gaining an picture of neo-colonialist Sartrean nausea charity the "no-exit" route to the collapsing grand account of an Asian despotic form of misshapen developmentalism?

Why have been you experiencing this phenomenon? Why have been the inaugurated officials becoming depraved to the core - both in the a! pproach they make use of energy as well as the approach they arrangement the picture of being in power?

What has crept cancerously in to the cognitive faculties/thinking routine of the leaders in these 5 decade of unilinear developmentalist bulletin which necessitates such the heartless picture of arrogance in the approach the leaders react to the voices of displeasure as in the UMNO convene as well as in investigations on hurtful practices?

Have Malaysians failed to examine their lives, borrowing the Socratic adage "the unexamined hold up is not value living"? Are you summoning the biggest rivalry - ignorance - to lead us to the path of developmentalism as well as putting believe in front of the banishment patrol circa Merdeka/Independence, borrowing again another Socratic adage "the biggest rivalry of believe is ignorance"?

I suppose you have commissioned rulers who have been not philosophers. We go on to implement exploiters as well as abusers of energy which make use of the ideological state apparatuses to concede the certain model of human as well as element growth to reign supreme. We have commissioned robber barons who verbalise with the two-pronged tongue of inhabitant development; learned users of Orwellian doublespeak.

What you have is now, after over 50 years of independence, have been the broken preparation system; the population which does not review books which help in the improvement of the soul, mind, as well as spirit; the statute system of administration which is holding the last failing exhale by chanting the mantra of racial as well as eremite prejudice in the goal which it can go on to live in luxury for the subsequent decade or so.

A philosophically passed society

We have the philosophically passed multitude by those who could! not night before n see the need to demeanour during multitude through the lens of domestic manage to buy though rsther than see the bastardised version of specialised functions of governance as the only approac! h to run multitude as the domestic entity.

We need to groom philosopher-rulers - not as an snob Platonic or Confucian sort of statute elitism, though to emanate the everyday philosopher-ruler in the plan of grooming destiny leaders in probably all sectors of the lives.

We need to reconceptualise the approach you run the universities as well as open institutions in the precision of the thoughts to lead organisations. We need to help members of multitude understand what believe is, the origin, the transformative power, as well as how it should be practical for the good of those which have been potentially marginalised, alienated, or even mentally deferential in newer as well as some-more pointed ways.

Through preparation recognised otherwise to meet the needs of the degenerating society, members of multitude need to be taught how to break down into parts formidable social, ethical, technological, as well as amicable issues in this post-industrial as well as informational age as well as suggest systematic ideas to effect humanistic as well as amicable shift in probably all sectors of human intellectual-macro level activities.

To save this republic from total destruction, you contingency go behind to truth as well as through the severe curriculum variable to varying contexts of learning, learn the destiny leaders the following:

• To understand the nature of believe as well as the history of the conceptualisation.

• To understand the differences in in between knowledge, information, understanding, application, as well as means to clear how these conceptions differ from the single another.

• To utilize the understanding of the philosophical, cultural, as well as political-economic aspects of believe as the basement to emanate newer as well as synthesised unders! tandi! ng of t hese as well as qualification frameworks to suggest perspectives to amicable as well as dignified problems.

• To rise logical, creative, moral, as well as unconventional ideas for amicable as well as organisational change; ideas sensitive by the low secure as well as broad-based understanding of believe in the many inter-disciplinary as well as cross-cultural clarity of the word.

• To rise the set of cognitive skills to be recognised as effective, respectable, well-informed, philosophically-trained members of the think-tank organisation of amicable organisations as well as amicable frontier thinkers means to beget innovative solutions to formidable problems.

• To try varying cultural philosophies as well as draw concept themes of ethics as well as amicable reconstructionism to start changes which will benefit the poor, marginalised, as well as alienated of all racial groups.

Such is the newer pattern you ought to try to replenish the intellectual prosperity. We contingency proceed to turn the republic of philosophers some-more than the republic of plunderers.

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