January 17, 2013
Bawani-Zohra Episode emblematic of Malaysia in an "Amuck-Latah" Mode
by Dr. Azly Rahman@http://www.malaysiakini.com
As the tyro of Cultural-Philosophical Studies with the passion in in advance tutorial shift framed within the context of cybernating-hypermodern societies such as Malaysia, you see the "Bawani-Zohra Affair" as emblematic of the republic left berserk upon the issue of freedom of speech as well as the enlightenment of sermon as well as open discourse.
We have been in an 'amuck-latah' mood. The nation, during slightest in cyberspace, is mad (amuck) of what happened, as well as the protagonist of the promotion appurtenance fumbled big-time (latah) presumption which the training techniques of the "top-down, humiliate-first, no-apologies later" of many the Biro Tata Negara speaker can still be deployed unreservedly onto university students during the time when amateur videos can go viral, when tweets can flow similar to the tsunami, as well as when Facebook pages can be created in the fraction of seconds.
That's the in error arrogance which the Frankenstein called "social media technology" will also not run amuck assisting those silenced to have their elegant justice, as well as those flustered to turn an fair being lifted to the level of stardom, overnight.
It is pronounced which during times, you do not need to find the series for the series will find you. The series found both Bawani as well as Zohra in such an 'absurd' way, such as in ! many of the plots of French surrealist dramas similar to Eugene Ionesco's rhinoceros using furious upon the city streets, as well as Kafka's impression moving from gloom to awareness in "Metamorphosis".
The timing was perfect, similar to which charge brewing right after the almost-a-million Malaysian march to take over Putrajaya; after the Deepak play which was over-played, overdosing even the older folks; after the successes of all those BERSIH rallies, as well as many alternative watersheds upon watersheds of consciousness-raising events, as well as ultimately, after the final hand circa GE13 all these completed the aptitude of the fateful "Bawani-Zohra" rendezvous.
Hence, Malaysians saw not usually an blast of anger, though the single which fuelled tremendous amounts of creative products, especially in the area of multimedia (music videos, Facebook as well as Internet posters, audio as well as video materials, as well as the prolongation of alternative forms of creative artifacts desirous by the mantra "listen-listen-listen").
That is my observation, despite too, as the 'participant-observer' who managed to contribute to the sermon through my open writings here upon Facebook, as well as in my alternative column in Malaysia-Today. you have regularly found examples of the chaos as well as complexity theory during work in these kinds of phenomena; the "butterfly effect" of Malaysian open discourse, which must be framed in the many kaleidoscopic as well as multidimensional way.
Mind-controlling machinery?
In this case, the simple couple of mins of verbal exchange in the sermon upon the campus situated
approach up in the "boonies" as the Appalachians in Ohio would say, can have inclusive impacts up compartment now, h! eading t o even the fall of the Barisan Nasional system of administration which has, for the final 30 years, been using the universities as the place wherein the human mind of student, staff, as well as even expertise would essentially need to "shut up as well as listen-listen-listen".
At the same time, the leaders will be carrying big sticks as well as vocalization not-so-gently, so which the entire mind-controlling machine can function effectively while being abandoned of critical sensibility. For too long, multitude has authorised such stupefication to occur via the work of government-controlled propaganda-producing agencies lerned in Soviet-styled mind-bending, mind-numbing, as well as mind-emptying strategies so which the dying beliefs of one-race dominancy in the self-glorified, ill-intentioned '1Malaysian' sloganism can prevail.
Even when the world outward has deteriorated mixed times as well as left through the routine of adaptations as the effect of globalisation as well as the stability relevancy of cosmopolitanism. you do not know, these have been my ramblings for the day, folks my Joycean stream-of-consciousness mood speaking:
Watching how the Mandelbrott set of Malaysian universities will play out; examination how the butterflies in this absurd play will strap their wings; as well as examination how the ancient Malay dialectics of deadly dualism will be spoken.
The "amuck-latah" syndrome will be transmutated into newer forms in the hypermodern multitude in the bipolar Malaysia trying to live in suitability with an ill-constructed '1Malaysia' while multitude is firmly broken by implosive devices same to the famous 'C4 used to end the life of the young Mongolian mother of the really young kid a little time ago, when law was still the remains watchful! to come alive.
I do not know, though there have been right away minds in those Malaysian universities which have been refusing to only "listen-listen-listen" until the law explodes as well as destroys the creators of falsehood. Please share your thoughts humbly of course. But where do you go from here?
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