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Contradiction of man


3.2.2010

Man, an animal, created by God, is full of contradictions. He will claim to be a vegetarian because he cannot stomach the cruelty of killing animals for meat but has no qualms about abusing the small men, maids, pets or other animals. He will go to great lengths to fulfil his religious obligations but bear the sight or see eye to eye with his siblings or offspring. He will insist that his food must be ‘pure’ (free of any animal contaminants of any kind – be it of trace elements or seasoning) but has no problem throwing food, over-indulging, hurting and traumatising the feelings of the servant who, through his ignorance or feeble-mindedness may have added oyster sauce or shrimp paste to his master’s stirred fried vegetables to earn extra points! He does not realise that his original reason for being vegetarian is to control his innate inner animal desire to be carnivorous. Still, he craves vegetarian chicken, vegetarian mutton or vegetarian prawns. Anyway, all of the above were vegetarian before their demise!

It is like Anwar Ibrahim, who in the 1980s used to be so vocal about Islamization and its implementation but now faces multiple court cases for sodomy. It is like a famous soothsayer in the Klang Valley who is regularly featured on TV predicting the fortune for the country on the birth of a new year and advising people on their horoscope but unfortunately has a miserable family life – married twice, with the second wife being slightly hypochondriac with a histrionic personality. Ironically, he could not predict his own life!

It is like restricting the cholesterol-laden sweet food for an 80-year-old diabetic just to serve these same foods in the prayer of his death anniversary. It is like Moslems proclaiming the greatness of Allah but in the same breath expressing fears of being charmed by djinn, talisman and black magic. It is like in George Orwell’s 1984, where all men are born equal, but some are more equal than others! It is like Malaysia trying to bring back its brains from abroad but has no brains to keep its applications user-friendly. Contradictions…contradictions…
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