2026-09-13 at

Presentism and Originalism in Malaysia

Ah, this is a useful dichotomy. In governance and law there is presentism and orginalism

About Malaysian public policy, I am generally a presentist

Because Malaysian law is intrinsically tied up with theism, I have to also point out that I am a materialist ( compatiblist : in viewing all spiritual experience as a variety of material experience )

So in politics, broadly
- originalists view: presentists as shallow
- presentists view: originalists as delulu

Politics is the PRACTICAL consensus

2026-09-12 at

cRitIcaL tHinKing

Maybe you guys can do me a favour and drag Malaysian vernacular back to centre on this term. 

CT has been batted around by laypeople for decades and not linked to the actual formal study of logic, semantics, and rhetorical criticism as captured in academic journals of logic, law, philosophy, etc.

"" 1. Definisi CT tu kena tetap dulu. Sebab ia istilah tak rasmi.

 2. Secara am, CT itu nama tak rasmi bagi epistemologi iaitu naẓariyyat al-ma'rifah

Yg bawah bhasa arab itu saya tak tau la universiti tempatan ada fokus tak 

Yang makna sama dalam bhasa inggeris/yunani itu eistemology : theory of knowledge la, kira dasar STEM, ada discipline/department/journal yang berkaitan

 - logic / philosophy
- critical theory / art history & literary analysis
- media studies + peychology / rhetoric

 Nampak tak banyak benda ini kat mana2 uni tempatan? Kebanyakannya tersekat je"" 

2026-09-10 at

Penjaguhan kampung

Penjaguhan kampung.

LUPA DIRI : terjadilah cacian sinis, bagi barua sejarah, terhadap orang lain. Apa pula yang dijatikan oleh barua itu? Baik, apasaja yang diperkaitkan dengan kaum, agama, bangsa, negara, puak, dll. Itulah nilai hidup orang dalaman.

Tapi orang luaran tak kisah pun pebende yang dipertarungkan itu. Tulah, cara orang pemandang ke dalam, yang lupa diri, sebenarnya.