Hey everyone.
How many emails have you received trying to motivate you into believing that the present government is building a quicksand pit large enough to swallow all of Malaysia?
How many politicians have used jargons to attempt at fooling you into thinking they are planning to do better in the next ruling term?
How many people have talked to you about a change but have no idea what the change might be?
Im going to try and break the cycle here. The following are my suggestions on what systemic changes Malaysia needs to actually change from the roots of some of the problems we have. Please note that i do not, in no way, claim to be all encompassing in my topic mentions.
I like education as a topic because i just came out of it haha. So this is where I’ll start. Do you know that feeling when you’re doing an assignment and you wonder why its so juvenile? For starters, it IS juvenile. Some things we learn in college are so simple we could’ve learned it years before. As a result, doing them at the age of 19 or 20 feels like we’re wasting time on a simple but tedious piece of shit. One of these things is basic HTML programming. I remember having a computer class in Form 1 where the teacher (bless his soul) made us do a bit of programming. It was FUN. When i had to do it in college it was just stupid. Seriously, if a Form 2 kid can do enough research online to do fancy stuff on a personal blog, im pretty sure secondary school students wouldn’t mind the convenience of learning it in school; its a waaay more useful skill than memorising growth sequences of a plant anyway.
What about basic referencing? Ever got a low grade in tertiary just because you didn’t know there was supposed to be an extra comma there? Well thats coz we’re not used to referencing! And you know what? We could’ve benefitted from this even during secondary education. It would encourage us to read something other than lies from the history textbook. It would encourage us to actually think about making a REAL hypothesis instead of conjuring it from memory during chemistry class. It would encourage us to THINK. Im pretty sure it also encourages an inventive streak.
Personally, i think if real leaders are born but need training, average leaders need to be forced into the role to realise that its possible to LEARN leadership. I never wanted to be a leader in scouts but i grew into it just fine. I believe it is the same with political leadership. We need a way to believe that anyone can be a manager. We need to realise that political roles are not difficult and mundane. We need to learn how to see the error in our current politicians’ management and understand how to troubleshoot these things. It is WAY too late to teach management and leadership after we’ve decided on a career we want. These are things we need to aspire to be; BEFORE tertiary education.
Another thing about belief in self is the liberty to take control of what we are doing. Most kids want their own by the time they get used to puberty; age 13-14. The school system needs to change. There needs to be free subject selection. The science and arts streaming only encourages acceptance of authority. Not a bad thing in any way specifically but it delays self management awakening. It would certainly do a lot of good to mandate schooling until Form5 but give kids an ultimatum of sorts. “Prove that you know what you’re doing now. Show me your strategy in becoming useful in the future. You want to take control? You can but its the same with your whole life; there will always be some rules you cannot break.”
Lets move on to law. The so called ‘bad’ acts are ISA, OSA, PPPA, and whatever else. This list will only expand because they are all the same; they became bad because of misuse, not because they were made bad from the beginning. Its like that phrase they like to put in superhero movies “power is not good or evil; it is just used for good or evil”. Or some similar shit. I cant really remember. All we need to do is to give these damned acts some context. I’ll admit this is not my idea but hey it hasn’t been done. Why not just make some sort of blanket precedent for those entering court with these acts? Something along the lines of “not applicable in arguments relating to or involving plaintiffs and defendants talking about race, religion, or political blame for physical assaults or mental damage incurred.” Easy, no?
Maybe while lawmakers are at it, they can add a clause saying “proof of racial/religious/political motives for damages to persons or assets in any form weighs less than proof of committing the crime of damage”. That way, things like bombing the churches can actually be charged FOR the act of bombing rather than inciting stupid endless debate of why it was done.
Another thing that seems ridiculous is the illegality of gatherings, purportedly for protests and other such nonsense. A gathering should only be deemed illegal if the people damage some property or people. Noise pollution does not count because if it did, all of us with horns in our vehicles should go to jail. If protest gatherings were illegal, why is it legal for policemen and fire trucks to gather? WITH weaponry at that. Just because you have a few badges and a bogus gun license doesn’t mean you’ll win a fight by default; there’s just no such thing. If i recall, the presence of government paid officials is what started the stupid fights with tear gas. Its like putting a fluffy toy in front of a cat and expecting it not to pounce. If anything, those policemen and stupid fire fighters should be arrested for baiting public disturbance.
Ok. I’ve finished explaining my viewpoints for the day. I hope you’ve not only thoroughly enjoyed the read, but also realised the need to have a solution for problems you surely like criticising. =D
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