I started this blog over 3.5 years ago (back in July 2003), initially to record my frustration with the Malaysian malaise of doing the convenient thing as opposed to the right thing. That has always been my complaint against Malaysia.
Raja Petra Kamarudin in a recent piece, accused the Malaysian government, in particular the Prime Minister Badawi, of lying to the people and effectively, misappropriating money. That is an extremely serious allegation. Yet there appears to be little or no reaction. It appears as though Malaysians are so used to the idea of the government lying to them and stealing from them, that a direct allegation like that doesnt bother them one bit. Malaysians are not stupid and neither are they naive.
I guess Malaysians themselves prefer doing the convenient thing to the right thing, so they cant find have a morally convincing voice against someone else who does something other than the right thing.
“So, I commend the enjoyment of life.” (From the Bible – really. Eccl 8:15)
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Sometimes I feel many of us are similar to frogs, remember the old story that if you drop a frog into boiling water it will hop out quickly and survive, while if you put one in cold water, then slowly raise the temperature, it will boil without noticing anything.Don’t you think this is pretty much what has happened thru the years?
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I think it’s less Malaysians don’t care, and more a feeling of “Well, what can we do? They always get away with it, and they might arrest us if we complain too loudly.” “Corruption fatigue”, maybe.
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