Wednesday 23 March 2016

A Helpless Self-mumbling

The widespread fake TIME cover page photo over Facebook in the couple of days has prompted me to pen down some thoughts.

[My Question]: Is corruption the major factor contributing to the decline of Malaysia’s competition in global battlefield?

I am afraid that it is not. One theory has suggested that the development of Malaysia has stopped or has only made very little progress since Anwar was sacked as DPM in 1998. The political chaos has since then never taken a pause, and thus the agendas towards economic and industrial development have not received adequate attention and the energy of Rakyat has focused on political episodes and solidarity instead of endeavouring towards national buildings.

18-year has elapsed, and yet we are still unable to jump out from this unpleasant eddy. A period of 18 years is more than enough to distort our positive attitude to a mind-set of accusation, blaming, short-sighted, and rigidity. Nationalism has lost its purity because it has been injected with politically toxic substance.        

One material fact that we must take into account is:

While we admire the economic and industrial development of the People’s Republic of China has been exponentially progressed, we are equally aware of the extent of corruption in China is perhaps worse than Malaysia. But then, how come China’s economic, industrial and technological development can take the speed of rocket launching? Shouldn’t be some other driving forces to propel towards such great and historic achievements?    


Comparing the two countries; Malaysia and China, I would make a simple conclusion that, despite corruption is a phenomenon that we hate to see and feel, neither is it a sole nor major obstacle towards national economic and industry development. The outstanding achievement of the People’s Republic of China is self-explanatory.   


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