An Epiphany Of Sorts
I’ve been in kind of a self imposed “exile” over the last few weeks, having spent most of my waking hours poring through PHP codes and *nix command lines. I finally could drag myself off the hot seat and go grab a leisurely breakfast this morning and catch up on the news.
I was shocked at the amount of stuff that’s been happening of late - the outlawing of Hindraf (how the heck do you outlaw something that was never a legally registered organisation anyway?), the arguably criminally provocative piece that was published in Utusan Meloya, the SMS allegations against Najib Tun Razak, et al!
It was kinda around then that I wondered .. how many people sitting in that coffee shop this morning having their cuppa and “char siew bao” are actually oblivious as to what’s happening in the nation? In a sense, I’ve been trained to know what to look out for, to read in between the lines even in our mainstream media. I reckon I view incidences and issues from nuanced eyes. But that is because I have been neck deep in this stuff for years. How many of our average Ali’s, Ah Kow’s, and Ramasamy’s have that privilege?
Perhaps its time civil society and the rest of us who are concerned about moving our nation forward to start rethinking how we are reaching out to the larger society. How are we helping people make informed decisions about the future?
I fear that if we allow things to stand and not change the way we engage society, that we may be heading towards what seems to be a deliberately engineered cleavage of society for the sakes of the well being of a self proclaimed privileged class of individuals.
An epiphany .. or a premonition? Kyrie Eleison.
