COMMENT | The Malay 'Matrix ' and 'Malaycoronapolitics'

COMMENT | Under lockdown, I’ve been watching sci-fi-magical-realist movies. It was thoughtful binge-watching though, to enjoy and study them philosophically and culturally. Star Wars, Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings, all complete. Then there was my favourite, The Matrix. Two parts are done with one more to go.

I thought of Malay politics while watching Matrix 1.

The feudal virus

The Malays are in a Matrix... of the Wahabi-Salafi-KetuananMelayu-Feudalis sort. They need a "Neo'' to release them. Who is this? Yes, someone like a Malay Messiah. We, however, don’t know when he or she will emerge and if he or she is interested in the job.

The Malays are in a Matrix... of the wahabi-salafi-ketuananmelayu-feudalist sort. They need a "Neo'' to release them. Who is this? Yes, someone like a Malay messiah. We, however, don’t know when he or she will emerge and if he or she is interested in the job.

Or maybe it’s already too late.

The virus of feudal- psychophysics mentality from the time of the Malacca sultanate has mutated into today's "Malaycoronapolitics".

Malay-feudalist thinking has created generations of political parasites and leeches, ending today as Malaycoronapolitics and instituted a new culture with psycho-pathological consequences. Such consequences range from the BMF scandal to 1MDB to frog-jumping fiascos like the Sheraton Move...