email correspondence
the recipient shall remain anonymous. takeaway whatever you can.. just a short rant
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multiculturalism - exactly my point, culture has always been framed from a race point of view. even the progression to monoculturalism is also from the view of assimilating various races. my point is as long as our definition of race is viewed within that narrow bracket we wont be able to develop a malaysian culture for global export (like as though our race is going to get us there. nothing to sell besides being exotic, which is vulgar in its own way). we need to redefine culture as a society with inherent entrepreneurial, intellectual and creative pursuits.
popteevee - ya la, as u say, nothing i dont already know, nice to get reminded every once in a while. its always been an experiment for me, to just create the platform and let others run wild and build something of value on top of it. its possible that as much as we like to be the catalyst for smart ones, that ultimately we are nothing but a nation of turkeys waiting to be lead? this has been frustrating me for the longest time, and tho its just a small outfit i do worry that it is reflective of our psychological ‘culture’ of not being able to seize on opportunities and go further than can be imagined. comparison is not the most christian thing to do (not that I am a christian) but if we have to, the fact remains that in the west, entrepreneurship is so well ingrained in their culture that from the littlest of help they can build mountains. here, I can safely say within the group of ours we have some the of smartest brightest malaysians. and as much as we criticise how some sectors of society are nothing more than reliant on handouts, we fail to see that we ourselves are trapped within that same framework. we are marginally better, but cant get the margins to add up to something really significant. lots of blind spots. the ep with the tanya najib segment for example could have simply been cut as a shorter tanya najib exclusive and put up on facebook as a separate video to fool people into thinking it was actually the real one that everyone was talking about. would have raked up huge followers. i dont know, maybe need some ass kicking, but as you know, my role has always been merely to provide the platform. not sure if i want to run it as it should be. maybe ive just been believing (wrongly) that we do have people who can see smallest of opportunities to mass into something larger. so maybe ive been wrong all along. we are smart, but not quite smart enough.
fuck
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