schmucks

 Giving love is a privilege.

Expecting love, is a plebeian disease :P  

weekly interfaith meetups

"FIRST Hungarian-Malaysian Islamic-Christian dialogue at ISTAC" 

Hah, saw this like 10 hours before the event and started forwarding it to the relevant bodies. I might pop by, from Sentul. 

I'm agnostic myself, but I do think it is a shame that such dialogues are not weekly events between Malaysian groups.

The council of non-Islamic religions has been disappontingly inactive since M Moorthy. Now the plebs are left to fight each other's superstitions without intellectual guidance. 

Malaysian unexceptionalism

1. Rudimentary governance issue : tactics < strat < goals < values is the precise order of abstraction, depending of course, simply on the definition of the terms. 

2. K12 Malaysian education teaches a lot about "what the world did to Malaysia" but disproportionately little about "what Malaysia did to the world" and "wtf is Malaysia TRYING NOW AND IN THE NEXT FIFTY YEARS to do to the world". 

3. So, I see your point, and I'll raise you a few more : Malaysian individuals are often seen to be obsessed with trivia, because at the core of the governance of Malaysia ... every branch : legislative, executive, judicial, and the univalent royal branch also ... have failed to decide, and thus have been unable to communicate, a global mission for the country. 

4. You can say perhaps, the Rukunegara gets as far as values, but there is no next step, a set of goals such as which American calls its exceptionalism in international affairs. 

5. In military terms, Malaysia lacks clear leadership. But it is a very young country, still adolescent in temperament, and probably quite pliable in the future. So we will just sit around and wait to see what happens, I suppose.