The conference with KeeThuan Chye was a great experience. I like the way he think of current issues of the country. He believe that the government is forcing their truth and value into us, to make us think the way they wanted us to be, closing the opportunities for us to develop to be someone different, with different way of thinking. The media is being controlled by the government, the content also being controlled for their favor. It was beautifully illustrated in his work “ The Swordfish. Then the Concubine”. Iskandar representing the current government making use of awang(representing the idol) in calming the crowd(citizens) in time that a riot is almost broke out (show political instability).
Another thing about him is, the way he thinks about us Malaysian right now. We are not united as people of a nation, because of the prejudice towards other races. It is true. Even though Malaysia has reached independence for a long time, we did not yet make it to live peacefully with one another. How we live right now is not the true “peace” with one another. There is still the “social contract” thing in the constitution. So the real fact is, the only thing that holds back the races from starting a war with one another is the “social contract”. If we have truly reached the real “peace”, there is no need for the “social contract” to be implemented.
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