December 24, 2012
Mayan Calender, Malaysian Quagmire
by Dr. Azly Rahman (12-21-12)@http://www.malaysiakini.com
Turning as good as branch in a widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear a falconer;
Things fall apart; a centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon a world,
The blood-dimmed waves is loosed, as good as everywhere
The ceremony of ignorance is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while a worst
Are full of passionate intensity.YB Yeats
At a eleventh hour of a Mayan prophecy of an Armageddon, what has a universe been experiencing? Tsunami, hurricanes, earthquakes, Arab Spring, Gaza invasion as good as a universe that still goes turn as good as turn in circles of set-back as if it is combined to let Evil triumph over Good.
But then again, a single can have any interpretation of what a Mayans were up to and, if indeed it is all a hoax.
Closer to home, what have Malaysians seen these final couple of decades triumph of Evil versus Good as well? Rallies after rallies in colours of rainbow of varicoloured hues, a Malaysian Spring that a little have been job a Hibiscus Revolution; augmenting structural violence, as if orchestrated by a little divine hands baptised in a soda fountain of Evil; a tellurian being blown in to smithereens over what most contend is a brawl over a sale of a submarine; augmenting authoritarianism of a state that is pronounced to be robbing as good as bribing a people all at once; a climb of state-sanctioned fascist-ethnic groups; multitude praying to neon as good as material gods that a Greek sage Socrates would curse all these, as good as more, indicate to a Mayan duration of a! Malaysi an pathos. We have been saying an canon of a own making.
As we was writing this we was also listening to Jim Morrison's 'The End', a 60s cult classic of a song aptly used in Francis Ford Coppola's anti-war Vietnam era film 'Apocalypse Now' a haunting Doors-composition indeed, that brought me to memories of a scenes of a movie.
Coincidentally, we had upon my bookshelf Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness', a magnum opus of a novel about a nature of a tellurian self when possessed by a need for greed, as good as a instinct to kill, as good as to reason by this via a idea in a probity of war, or a "moral force of it" a little competence say, as good as a inevitability of capitalism as good as a march of it.
Malaysians live in a universe of dismay as good as despair
I see rupture in Malaysian politics, of a a single maybe emblematic of a Kafkaesque universe of that impression Gregor Samsa of 'The Metamorphosis', in that dismay as good as despondency had become a comfortable numbness (as a rock group Pink Floyd would say); in that in a novel, a male unexpected turns in to a vermin, a cockroach-looking insect as good as a absolute theme of existentialism sets in. How does a family understanding with a metamorphosis?
Malaysians appear to have been vital in a universe of dismay as good as despair, as good as have been yet unaware
of a changes as good as transformations that further alienate, marginalise, as good as even disparage them all since that universe is combined by those who own a means to try by artful means to get a lives of others by office building this masquerade of "progress", in that circuses come to locale often as good as bread (crumbs, these may be) have been given upon a every day basis to have those e! nslaved happy as happy as Albert Camus' Sisyphus in a universe in which, as a great Afrikaaner Chinua Achebe would say, "Things (Have Fallen) Apart," in that a centre can no longer hold. A matrix of governing body commonly called "neo-feudalism cemented by Mahathirism".
In a universe of dismay as good as in a place wherein a industrialised male a post-modern male "Hank" of Henry Miller's 'The Hairy Ape', gets caged as good as in conclusion undone when his labour is exploited, his suggestion caged, as good as his body used up by industrial fumes, a only approach to get out of all these is to mental condition as good as to goal for a saviour to translate that mental condition of being free in to a revolution that will bring behind tellurian dignity.
'A renovation of life-force ahead?'
That Mayan prophecy is maybe not about a finish of goal as good as of everything (it is midnight in New York City as we write this) though about a renovation of hope. Will a universe see a improved approach of living, you do things, or even meditative about new as good as peaceful ways of elucidate conflicts?
It is for those vital in this era to teach those of a next upon what their universe ought to look like; over a dismay as good as despondency of a Kafkaesque shift or a universe wherein things have depressed apart as good as over repair.
Back to a Malaysian quagmire. What is this "new politics" most have been articulate about, either accepted or not? Old Mayan deadly mixture in a new bottle? Or a bottle of suggestion brewed to perfection from a warm springs of a meadows of a new Malaysian hope? we don't know. Our Mayan monthly calendar is ending. The priests have been sleepy of predicting. But where is a Messiah?
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DR AZLY RAHMAN, wh! o was bo rn in Singapore as good as grew up in Johor Baru, holds a Columbia University (New York) doctorate in International Education Development as good as Master's degrees in a fields of Education, International Affairs, Peace Studies as good as Communication. He has taught some-more than 40 courses in six different departments as good as has written some-more than 300 analyses upon Malaysia. His training knowledge spans Malaysia as good as a United States, over a far-reaching operation of subjects from elementary to connoisseur education. He currently resides in a United States.
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