Political Crossroads

Whenever someone mentions Crossroads, Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken often comes to mind.

But sometimes it does not amount to such decision-making as to which road to take next at the forked junction. In fact, sometimes it means a travller must take a rest.
In the hustle and bustle of modern life, many adults have forgotten to feel the mountain air, smell the fragrance of a rose, listen to a day-old baby cry.

I'm taking a sojourn to taste some of these therapeutic airs and sounds.
Then I may come back to write about Politics.
But Malaysian Politics has become banal and crass.
People don't know what Reasoning is anymore.
It's just the cacophony of sounds. Noise. Noise with no soul.

A baby's cries have soul.
A child's wails have soul
A teenager's laments have soul.

But much of adult politicians's voices have no soul.
They emit noises like Pigs and Babi, and Bastards and Barua, Binatang and Beasts. NO SOUL.

I think I'd live better with less Barua, Babi and Beast.
Malaysia has reached some sort of Political Crossroads that's not consonant with the new millennium.
We are wasting time playing, replaying the same old record.
Older leaders who should have known better are making as much noise as the younger ones.

I think writers should refrain from adding to the noise.
Desiderata would like to. Hence, his diet of Poetry.
Mave, I Apologise if this is not your cup of tea,
I'm trying to CONvert you. He he he. She she she.




I Go My Way

All round is haste, confusion, noise.
For power and wealth men stretch the day
From dawn till dusk. But quietly
I go my way.

For glitter, show, to taunt the crowd,
Desire-tossed in wild dismay,
Men sell their souls. But quietly
I go my way.

The green of all the fields is mine,
The stars, the night, the wind at play,
A peaceful heart, while quietly
I go my way.


UPDATED @10AM

PC1:

The Star frontpage reads~~

Bloggers beware
PM: Those who spread
untruths on the
net wil be detained


PC2:
theSun frontpage reads~~

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PC3:

thesun says, page 14

Control the hot air over
media control

WHEN all else fails to convince, national
security is often invoked. To be fair,
quoting national security is not the pre-
requisite of our government alone. Other
governments, uincluding those of the
United States and Britain, resort to citing
it as well whenever they want to make
some unpopular decisions especially
those affecting personal privacy and
freedom.
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And while we are at it, we should also
control if not outright ban all politicians
from giving speeches since most often
than not they are the ones who stir up
racial and reliogious emotions, as we
often see happen even in [
parliament.

DESIDERATA: I've reproduced on the starting and ending paras.
Lazy bummmers should not be spoon-fed all the way. You work
the Other 80%~~~~~~~can?

And while you are at it, turn to page 8 as well;
the guy who gave you "22 questions" adds:

The myth of Mahathir's
invincibility

You did not hear IT from Desi,
it's from P. GUNASEGARAM,
group excutive editor
of The Edge.