Megatrends of madness, Part II
I wonder why there is a disjuncture in the moral make-up of societies. We have more houses of worship built, more religionisation of programmes engineered, more models of religious life architectured, yet politics remain as primitive, predatory, pathetic and animalistic as ever.
What lies behind the slogan is a rotting culture of political socialisation, enculturalisation, and participation on a post-colonial ideology of maintaining a false sense of pluralism so that exploitation can be engineered via the divide-and-conquer strategy and the people can be given circuses, funfairs, and goodies.
The pathos lies in education as social reproduction and a conveyor belt of racist formation – that schools and institutions are to maintain the ideology of ethnic separation by de jure’ or de facto, via formal, informal, or hidden curriculum so that the leaders of the ‘apartheid regime of the modernist mould’ can be sure to sustain power via neo-feudalistic strategies of control, containment, and co-habitation.
And thus, we have the continued existence of schools and institutions that are used as breeding grounds of racist ideology detrimental to the aspirations of this nation in need of education for peace, cultural understanding, and social justice.
Must we not dismantle this ideology, and with immediate effect, integrate all schools and now allow the ideology of “one race, one school” to prevail? Should we have done that before Mahathirism took power and charted the direction of command and control to promote this ‘maddening multiculturalism’ to take root?
Why are many highly-educated Malay professionals of this generation essentially seem to be parading this sense of sophisticated racism they carry as a badge of honour to design and implement policies detrimental to the evolution and realisation of ‘truly sensible and human sense of multiculturalism’?
Wherein lies the problem in multicultural education? How do we rectify this?
This brings us to my last thought on what a maddening megatrend of ours constitute – religion as an instrument of irreligiosity in our politics of race and ethnicity. (I wrote about this in my forthcoming book “The ‘Allah’ Controversy and Other Essays on Malaysian Hypermodernity” which will be available soon.)
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