war and peace

The naive country, teaches children that soldiers did deeds dirty, so that clean business could be done in peacetime. 

But in peacetime, actors still run business dirty, and this culminates in government. Perhaps if we were more honest with children, countries would function more efficiently as it might be harder to hide dirty business. 

Meanwhile, the secret wars are waged and warriors bear their dirty deeds beneath a veneer of polity. 

disappointment

"We agree, you offer X, and I offer Y." 

"I agree." 

"I will not do this deal. I would need to offer Z, and you offer Y." 

"I feel W, and together with Y that is worth your X." 

"W is not admissable to my calculus." 

"But W is what I feel." 

"I am literally telling you, that your feelings don't matter to me." 🤣

valuation : 2x2 : high-low context, objective-subjective valuation

Negotiations often suffer from a lack of clarity about how much context is hidden, so there is an axis of [ high- to low-context ] negotiation. 

Similar, but orthogonally, negotiations are subject to an axis of [ objectivity to subjectivity ] in deal valuation. 

From these, arises the 2x2 matrix of :

- explicit objective values

- hidden objective values

- explicit subjective values

- hidden subjective values

This is an important plane for the analysis of deals.

Today I am particularly frustrated by some counterparties that cannot brain the following : 

[ their asks are explicitly framed, but subjectively valued ... and I am actively valuing those asks at zero ]

It is not that we agree, that we disagree on valuation ... but that they are shocked that anyone would disagree on the valuation. 

🤣🤣

remote meat execution

In today's world, a centralised controller speaks to millions of individual humans, and forms relationships with them. 

The centralised controller is thus excellently equipped to determine how to activate assets to execute tasks wherever those tasks are. 

That includes tasks such as threat removal. 

punca adanya Malaysia

KENAPE wujudnya MALAYSIA ?

Tak payahlah saya kaji terlalu dalam, sebab nota ini telah merumuskannya.

The reasons for Malaysia’s formation -

The Malaysian Bar

https://share.google/HgZ6HUC7P5GLj4nGL

Tapi saya cuba ringkaskan lagi pihak2 yg memperalatkan antara satu sama lain ...

1. Pertamanya, wujudnya Malaya ( kenape itu pulak, ceritanya lain )

2. Kedua, Singapura ingin merdeka dari UK, tapi { UK, dan bukan-komunis di Singapura } takut unsur { komunis di Singapura } akan kuat sampai boleh mencapai kerajaan di situ, jadi nak join masuk persekutuan Malaya (1.) supaya dapat menyekutukan lagi pertahanan nyah-komunis

3. Ketiga, Malaya (1.) pulak takut penambahan pengundi cina dari Singapura (2.) akan menjejaskan keseimbangan antara kaum di Malaya (1.)

4. Keempat, pihak2 yg terlibat mencetuskan gagasan kemasukan ramai pengundi bukan-cina dari pra-Sabah dan Sarawak, bagi menjadikan keseimbangan perkauman { Malaysia } agak sama dengan Malaya (1.)

5. Kelima, pra-Sabah dan Sarawak berminat merdeka dari UK secara sendiri, tetapi telah DIPUJUK oleh (4.) maka terjadilah tolaktarik sehingga hak istimewa dua wilayah ini diputuskan dalam MA63

5.1. Brunei left the chat ( kemerdekaannya pun cerita lain )

5.2. Filipina menuntut sebahagian pra-Sabah adalah kepunyaaannya

5.3. Indonesia merajuk, kata UK menggoda rakan2 nya

6. Keenam, tak lama lagi Singapura buat hal, dan melompatbuangkan dirinya dari Malaysia (5.) ( satu lagi cerita lain )

Habisnya rumusan saya atas rumusan yg dilinkkan. dipersilakan ...

"budaya Malaysia"

Budaya Malaysia bukanlah budaya Melayu, walaupun budaya Melayu adalah budaya Malaysia.

Walaupun "hak Melayu" dilindungi di Malaysia ... hakikatnya : budaya Malaysia bukan HANYA budaya Melayu.

Budaya Malaysia ada kepelbagaiannya, termasuklah budaya2 { yang termaktub, dan yang tak termaktub }, { yang kuno, dan yang baru tercipta sejam }, { yang lurus, dan yang songsang }, { yang liar, dan yang jinak }, { yang diterima umum, dan yang dibenci ramai }, sekaligus segala kegiatan mana2 orang yang membawa kewarganegaraan Malaysia, keseluruhannya terjadilah "budaya Malaysia". Kepelbagaian itulah mulia, dan itulah dasar perbadanan kita.

Kenape? Sebab termaktublah dalam perlembagaan ... kita terdiri daripada orang yang berbeza, tapi tiadalah mana satu yang haknya lebih daripada mana2 yang lain, selain daripada apa yang tersurat.

Selalunya isu2 yang dikatakan tersirat menjadi polemik semasa - itulah, budaya kita juga, selama2 nya orang di sini akan membentangkan maksud tersirat perundangan kita.

Tapi isu yang tersurat saja yang kita boleh tuntutkan, secara am.

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Inilah pemandangan saya setelah membaca komen2 dari pelbagai orang yang berpandangan bahawasanya budaya bukan Melayu patut dibuang dari Malaysia.

senses of normality

One of the great misunderstandings among people, is in the recurrently trendy discourse over NORMAL and ABNORMAL behaviour and capability. Going up a level, the notion of normalcy has two different meanings for any human population.

The first meaning is DESCRIPTIVE, and defined in terms of statistics. Here, normalcy is a matter of empirically quantified FACT.

The second meaning is NORMATIVE (sic), and has absolutely nothing to do with statistics. The second meaning refers to the formal and informal empirical markers which signify a population's PREFERENCE.

Now, aggregate PREFERENCE is always decided by aggregate POWER, and so here normalcy is a matter of opinion, presented via power as fact. Thus, politics clutters culture, and thus both culture and politics draw the attention, of both political scientists and anthropologists. Yes, yes, all the other social science disciplines as well ... vis-a-vis intersectionalism/ty.

So, the next time you hear junior epistemologists babbling about neuroDIVERGEnce or criminal abnormality do review their statements, in case these two senses of normalcy are clumsily mixed up. 

fear of negative appraisal

Many people lack the quality of being able to enjoy a presentation of themselves as powerless, weak, poor, distasteful, unpopular, ill, evil, foolish, or ugly ... this tends to be due to trauma associated with such frames.

So whereas a neutral person is not bothered by such presentations of self, a historically wounded person may not be able to see at all how such presentations could be neutral or positive. They are wearing lenses, they cannot remove.