When Prometheus, bound by chains to have his liver devoured by an eagle everyday, undying, in eternal pain, was asked to place a gift to mankind, whom he loved so much he gave them the gift of fire knowing the punishment he will face, he in his wisdom placed in that box a gift so precious, so valuable, that his single gift offset each curse and burden placed in that box by all the other gods, jealous of mankinds success.
Pandora opened that box, and out flew war and disease, famine and gluttony, and all the myriad ills that still plague us today, but the last to leave that fateful box was Prometheus’s gift, not as well known as his earlier gift of fire but infinitely more precious. It was the gift of Hope.
What hope is there for Malaysia?
1. The so called Pakatan Rakyat governments can’t even form a shadow cabinet, 7 months after winning 5 states and after countless promises made and broken on forming the next federal government.
2. They cant even have a website that says “This is PakatanRakyat.com”. They are either lazy, stupid, divided or they just can’t give a damn, whichever it is, it’s not good for all of us that voted for them.
3. Barisan Nasional is dying from within and they still have their heads so far up Media Prima’s butt that they don’t know their left foot is already in the grave up to the neck.
4. The global economy is doing what it’s supposed to, which is go ‘thunk’. ‘thunk’ as it tumbles against the walls on its way down, but our economic ‘brains’ are still repeating the mantra ‘ Om.. Malaysia is fine.. Om’ taught to them by their grandfathers back when Keynes was still boinking his mates in the gentleman’s club.
5. The fourth estate which probably has a few thousand journalists. reporters, subeditors, editors and other creatures has to make do with a sum total of 7 brains between them, 3 of which are in citizen Nades’s suitcase.
6. I am starting to get mildly irritated with what’s happening, which means that the rest of you should have started panicking about 3 years ago.
God save Malaysia, but if even You can’t do it, please make it quick and unexpected, let us all just wake up one day and find out that we have been annexed by Bukit Timah, because the rest of Singapore did not want us.
Jeevindra Kumar
