A tangent on the personality-skew of Malays.
Upon this post, a Threads friend, a practicing Muslim, said they weren't fond of support for the conservative legal system. To which I joked,
"I think it's a personality thing. Regardless of choice of creed ...
- a) some people like jerking themselves
- b) some people like to be whipped
:D"
To which they said they suspected it was a "... Malay thing because the way they put themselves beneath everyone else ..." etc.
To which, I responded, not-intended as a joke :
"Being subby + mengamok in Malay culture has had anthropological attention.
- 1. Hypothesis that living in the non-hurricane + non-ring-of-fire + non-desert has setup a comfortable environment and thus culture.
- 2. The introduction of Islam as an ideology of self-restraint has a deep interaction with 1., which may of course have both healthy and pathological modes.
- 3. The pathological mode of 2., is excessive restraint without reasonable support structure, increases risk of explosive release."
Then we talked further about downstream public policy, and how it has shaped knowledge, culture, and daily tendencies for all Malaysians.
Friend said, "fact that religion overrides logic annoys ... [ redacted ] ... not even theology ... [ redacted ] ... just basic common sense". To which I responded :
"- "common sense" is a notion that disregards cultural structure- going into the structures, it seems you prefer a different culture- structures are built from various factors ( discussed above in our chat )- a lot of the structure in Malaysia is authoritarian, which aligns with the Mahathir era of Malaysia's development ( he wasn't a cleric, but clerical developments advanced in parallel with his public policies )"
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