Showing posts with label anarchy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label anarchy. Show all posts

Sunday, 18 October 2020

Policing the police?

Disgruntled expression by citizens after the second wave of 
COVID linked to free movement of politicians during the 
recent Sabah state election. This banner prompted the cops
to spring to investigate the maker of this banner.

The law (specifically the police) is supposed to serve and protect the public. They are there to maintain law and order so that the general public can perform their society-sanctioned duties - earning an honest living and caring as well as providing for the loved ones. 

Of late, these duties (by the police) have been questioned. Are they there to protect the laypeople? Is their presence purely to serve? But to serve whom? Who are their masters?

We all know that the BLM movement that stemmed from policemen's mishandling of black suspect is nothing more than a brain-child of self-serving parties trying to court anarchy to push forward their agendas. One thing led to another. Compilations of previous police brutalities over the years soon instigated people to question whether we need a police force at all. Then, the scream for defunding the police started becoming louder. Imagine a society without the men in blue to police law, order and justice. But do they mete justice? Apparently not.

Closer to home, we repeatedly see enthusiastic men-in-uniform with the excitement of a kid with a candy working around the clock, chasing all avenues to nail culprits who defamed people of stature and in pursuing microscopic shreds of evidence as the situation warrants. Apparently, their excitement gets doused when it comes to nailing down selected kidnappers.

But then...

The world is not a rose garden. There are many wicked people around. They use the evil that lurks within the crypt of their hidden mind to fulfil their hedonistic desire or shortcuts to commit the society-abhorred deadly sins. The laypeople cannot take be empowered to take power to protect themselves in times of adversity. 

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Thursday, 6 December 2018

Anarchy or Evolution?

That is what the world has come to. There is sadly no 'one-answer-fit-all' response. The people who argue against the grain are smart people with intelligence quotients higher than the general public. 

Everyone is concerned only of his own self. There is an inner desire to live life to the fullest; enough of living under the pretence that something sacrosanct needed to be protected. If all this while they had cowed to societal pressures and suppressed their inner needs, it was the time that they let their hair down. They do as they please.

Over generations, through trials and error, regulations have been put in the system. Each sex had their gender roles. Each gender had their duties and expectations. It was not a perfect arrangement, but there was a semblance of order. The general public accepted it as necessary to continue our existence. 

Nothing does not offend anyone any more. This signage in 
an Italian B and B with an 'alien' in a coquettish pose is not 
acceptable by the LGBT Rights Association there.

Now, a section of the population has started questioning the status quo. These people do not want to be confined in boxes assigned to them. They find it difficult to tick their nature (or is Man's) assigned social expectations. They do not feel comfortable using gender allocated toilet facilities. Through no fault of theirs, they appear trapped in the wrong body, and they want out. They want to fight back. There is no more two sexes. There is a third, fourth, fifth and maybe more.

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It seems that there is no necessity to fill up the gender box anymore. The blurring of capability and roles of the sexes are more blurred than ever. Their voices are growing stronger by the day. Their contributions to society cannot be denied. They do not cause the wrath of the Almighty. They are here to stay whether we like it or not. If this would lead to anarchy as the traditionalists predict, it is up to us as thinking humans to accept this change, utilise it to our own benefit and help to steer civilisation towards a future that includes the people who are different and do not confirm. Our journey from the caves to the skyscrapers is rife with outliers who merely refuse to conform to the societal norm.

The first fearless caveman who dared to sit on the tree trunk floating by the river managed to reach on the other side to open the door of opportunities.


“Be afraid. Be very afraid.”*