In an age where self centeredness
reigns, where everyone has an unprecedented and many precious opinion; I feel
like, I wouldn’t want to be left out from the scene.
It seems like people have moved
on and forgotten about the recent upheaval that created animosity between two
majority races in the country; which is a good thing.
Speaking of the recent disarray, rather
than racism, I’d prefer addressing and narrowing it towards one of the
underlying source on the cause or what might’ve instigated these outbursts. We
do not know if it was propaganda but we all know that there are many people who
are unhappy and we have many impoverished people who are unhappy. The nature of
an unhappy person is that when provoked he lashed out without thinking twice
because he is always on the edge—Often unstable, due to stresses, discontentment
and the feeling of rejection.
For one, we live in an extremely
stressful age;
Everyone is always on the edge,
Firmly enveloped in fear,
Paranoia becomes second nature,
Selfishness becomes the norm,
It’s a dog eat dog world!
Arrogance and narcissism in
ordinance,
A living hell, a living hell,
Mankind seems to be heading
towards a certain darkness,
One that might lead to
everlasting unhappiness.
Mr. Soren Kierkegaard a 19th
century Danish philosopher, proposed that
an individual has to pass through three stages on the way to becoming a true
self: the aesthetic, the ethical, and the religious though according to him,
many are stuck at the aesthetic stage commonly known as the material stage.
Hence everything is of face value ergo shallowness becomes a determining factor
on how one perceives happiness.
We probably are not as racist as
we are judgmental. We judge others through outer appearances and physical
possessions. We are indeed a shallow lot. Wouldn’t it better if we could grow up
and be less superficial? It seems like we are cursed, we think the more
possessions we have the better we are. We appreciate possessions more than human
values.
Despite our differences which I will
elaborate later, I believe the so called rage/anger is the outcome of one being
in a stressful state for too long or due to not having a normal/comfortable
life so to speak.
“The healthy man does
not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.” As said
by -Carl Jung-
We have people who are poverty
stricken and being treated as failures/ social outcasts in the community, the
only easy way to get recognition sometimes can be unthinkable to others. This
is not an easy problem to solve especially when there are so many struck by
poverty. To make matters worse, as we all know, our economy is gradually
worsening and basic things are getting more expensive.
Imagine someone who has lived in
discomfort his whole life while observing others living a more lavish or what
seems like a happier life because we as a people tend to think that a bigger
house equals bigger happiness and worse still we pay more respect towards the
rich and towards people with titles before their names than the poor.
If we think about it, the root to
our major problems is primarily done by the people who are in control of the
economy yet we praise them and idolize them.
Speaking of races, well let’s
address them as race: A, B & C…after reading comments and opinions of races
predominantly belonging to race A… I for one; well, this is a little difficult
to say but they have discovered what sarcasm is in 2015— Having said that,
among the many things that bothers me are their overly-confident remarks on how
they did things ‘on their own’ without anyone’s help; that or students who just
finished studying claiming, ‘I made it all on my own and now I am going to do
things my way’. After being spoon fed your whole life, you spout things like
that? Little do they know that for generations most of them have been the
spoiled brat of the nation, so to speak.
As for race B everything is
either and investment or a transaction, though I guess, they work so hard that
they hardly have any time, that’s why you see them always rushing and as the
saying goes, ‘don’t give you face’ as a consequent their stares and attitude
towards others or even their own—well from my personal experience I would say
gave birth to a kind of superiority complex that is pretty discomforting and
distasteful in a ‘masyarakat majmuk’ like atmosphere.
As for race C who are probably
the unluckiest of all the races—I for one have pin-pointed the cause to their
dilemma. We from other/mixed races mostly grew up with fairytales which I’ve
come to realize have molded millions of minds and have set unrealistic
expectations and a false sense of happiness unto clean, innocent minds.
Race C grew up with something
worse, movies!
Yes I said it; these movies have caused the
minds to stray away from reality, as a result many grown man think that with
the stylish wave of a finger and by muttering something like, na adicha ni
satideve, people will just be at awe at the stylishness/swag of the main protagonist.
There are millions of individuals in race C though to every individual, he is
the main protagonist in his own movie/life. In closing, the influence of movies to the
people of race C is just too much and has probably caused grown men problem in
differentiating between real life and unrealistic cinematography.
I almost left out race D &
race E...I happen to be part of race D & E. Race D is of the mixed/kacukan
race and are well liked because of their openness, understanding and flexible
nature.
As for race E… all other races
dislikes race C including its own kind. Sadly, despite all that I wrote above
about races seems pointless for in today’s world it seems like there is only
one race, which is the race of/for money. Let’s refer to race E is as the race
of the poor.
The society’s outcasts…people don’t
notice but the rempits, mat dadah, the kongsi gelap, the pariah, all have one
thing in common. Most of them come from poor, broken family and from a poor neighborhood.
These places are often neglected and abandoned by authorities and probably seen
as a lost cause. As a consequence, children who grow up here are wrongly
influenced and they become adults and just like that the cycle continues. To
me, one of the most crucial parts of growing up is during one’s childhood to
adolescence; when the brain is molded and shaped.
Having said that, let’s distance
ourselves further and have a, so to speak panoramic view, our leaders are corrupt,
our politics thrives on racism and other negative stuff…though none bugs me more
than our education system that progressively molds a child’s brain into
becoming a superficial, shallow and a selfish adult.
On another note, if there is one
thing we can change, it would be changing our education system. How difficult
can it be? In an age where copying and pasting has proven to be helpful and at
times a work of magic, ‘copy and paste’ have always worked out if done
properly, you know without breaking any plagiarizing laws; Let me rephrase,
rather than copying and pasting let’s use the term emulating. Here is what I am
insinuating. Why not emulate countries whose education system has proven to be
effective in creating better and wiser people? Send a delegation to other
countries, learn about their education system and implement them in our own. “Ambil
yang jernih, buang yang keruh” as the saying goes. How difficult can it be? Also,
I am sure many have heard of this, “a smart man learns from his experience, a
smarter man learns from the experiences of others.” It might take years but it
has to start somewhere right? Also it will be a dream come true if proper
education was free for everyone.
Coming back to topic, it is not
an impossible task to eradicate poverty in our nation. Though it seems almost impossible
to have clean and honest politicians; if only kindness were more prevalent over
un-kindness then perhaps we wouldn’t always be angry. The root of many problems
in a society is poverty and inequality.
My fear is that in the near
future instead of lessening the number of poorer families and poverty stricken
neighborhood judging from where we’re heading it just looks like things are
worsening and impoverishment might just multiply and over the years, create
newer families who then experience & observe the inequality of life and give
birth to angrier and disheartened human beings.
Let’s pray and hope for the best.
