WHAT really is all a bitch over a theme, logo as well as song lyrics of our arriving Merdeka celebrations? Is it really a case of domestic manoeuvrings by a Barisan Nasional (BN)? Or bad settlement by a supervision of a day? Or both?
Or does it say something some-more about what a stream sovereign care promotes?
Over a past weeks, detractors have been pouring ridicule upon a sovereign government's branding of Peninsular Malaysia's 55th year of autonomy from a British. Information, Communications as well as Culture Minister Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim has been defensive about these criticisms. In response, Pakatan Rakyat as well as citizens, together with local designers, have responded by coming up with their own thesis as well as logos for our Merdeka Day celebration, which will be held during a finish of this month.
Is this all a charge in a teacup, as Umno Youth chief Khairy Jamaluddin referred to when he tweeted which a emanate was "petty" even if a central trademark was "aesthetically challenged"? Or does a rave to a government's Merdeka jubilee indicate to underlying trends which undermine how great this nation can be?
Self-serving
O! ne has t o consternation since Rais thinks he can urge a but protection in this day as well as age when adults have been far some-more engaged as well as connected. Clearly a BN's idea of a Merdeka jubilee this year is self-serving. How else would a single describe a use of a BN's election campaign thesis of Janji Ditepati as a autonomy thesis as well as in a logo? And how else can a single explain since a lyrics to this year's Merdeka song, penned by Rais himself, is littered with, as a single derogator aptly describes, "vulgar propaganda"?
Clearly a logo, thesis as well as song have been self-indulgent since it promotes 3 things this Merdeka: BN, BN as well as BN.
Tunku Abdul Rahman (Wiki commons)
Should you be astounded which it has come to this? Not really. Politicians, generally those who have most during stake, have been often disposed to self-indulgent behaviour. The Father of Independence himself, Tunku Abdul Rahman, never wanted a 1955 Baling assent talks with a Malayan Communist Party to succeed, even though he organized them. As documented by former Utusan Melayu editor-in-chief Said Zahari, a Tunku used a talks as leverage to compel a British to quickly hand over autonomy to a Alliance.
Fast forward to today, as well as a self-indulgent poise is unbelievably blatant. Take a supervision panel set up to examine purported violence by police as well as protesters during a Bersih 3.0 rally for giveaway as well as fair elections. It is clear whose interests a supervision is serving when it appoints as head a former inspector-general of police who had disparaged a rally as a possible coup attempt.
And since we're upon a topic of a police, who does it offer when a police perform in malls in reply to public perception of rising crime? Surely not a rakyat, since a friendly, singing military force is not about to deter rapist activity. It never has as well as never will.
Mediocre
I additionally don't consider a 55th Merdeka issue, as you shall call it, is as well small an emanate to be appalled as well as outraged by. Why? Because detached from being self-serving, a theme, trademark as well as song smack of mediocrity, as well as Rais's counterclaim boils down to a counterclaim of sameness in a inhabitant celebration.
How is a official logo, which has since been withdrawn, mediocre? Well, a fact which a central trademark can be so simply copied as well as pasted shows how sub-standard a trademark is.
Compare which to a Facebook foe which resulted in logos which demonstrate how really talented a nation you are. Indeed, each time The Nut Graph does a Found in Malaysia int! erview, you have been struck during usually how many talented Malaysians there are.
And yet, what does our supervision do? Instead of sketch upon this talent pool, it uses taxpayers' income to await as well as promote mediocrity, as well as for a Merdeka celebrations, no less! Yet again, perhaps you shouldn't be as well surprised. Mediocrity is prevalent in a BN, in partial since a bloc has been in power for so long but having most competition, compartment 2008, to keep it upon a toes.
That sameness is again represented in a state apparatus for example, when a Home Ministry says crime in Kuala Lumpur isn't so bad since there have usually been 9 cases of reported crimes in city malls. Firstly, an glorious military force would ensure which there was no crime in malls or elsewhere. And even if a little crime is unavoidable in any society, a Home Ministry has solved usually two out of those 9 cases. That equates to which out of 9 criminals, 7 know they have been expected to get divided with it.
Recently, after my yoga class in SS2, Petaling Jaya, you were all told to be clever when exiting a centre since of a spate of waylay thefts in a area. Now, do these situations tell us which you have an glorious or common military force during work?
Honestly, it's not as well formidable to theory since it's easier to be common as well as since a BN chooses sameness instead of excellence. After all, usually a common have been always during their best.
Conclusion
Rais Yatim (source: kppk.gov.my)
Apart from withdrawing a central logo, Rais has since additionally asked for feedback about a Merdeka song, additionally named Janji Ditepati. Additionally, a composer says a song is still being finalised as well as it could be altered if there is "a request from any party". I consternation what stopped a BN supervision from crowd-sourcing ideas for a logo, thesis as well as song, as they have done previously, prior to rising a self-indulgent as well as common code for our 55th Merdeka.
Rais's softening stance towards criticisms unfortunately isn't good enough. Indeed, he is right away attempting to expel a sovereign antithesis as being narrow-minded over a inhabitant Merdeka celebrations. Between Janji Ditepati a BN's choosing campaign thesis as well as Sebangsa, Senegara, Sejiwa a inactive as well as thorough preference of difference which do you reckon sounds some-more politically skewed?
Whether Rais or a BN care will ever admit it, it's as well late for damage carry out and/or job a antithesis names as well as expecting it to stick. The BN's goods for Merdeka have been already spoilt. And while a trademark or song or thesis can be withdrawn, a summary from a BN about autonomy cannot. This Merdeka, a autonomy jubilee usually prior to our subsequent general election, a BN wants us to buy in to a inhabitant code which is both self-indulgent as well as mediocre. And after 55 years of independence, you'd consider a statute bloc could do improved than that. 
Jacqueline Ann Surin wonders since a Datuk Seri Najib Razak administration department keeps making it so easy for Pakatan Rakyat to come out seeking as well ! as smell ing like thornless roses.
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