The Breaking Down of Society

Slowly but ever so assuredly, our society is breaking down. It is not something that is tangible, this break down. It is more of ubiquitous feelings of the masses. Highest on the list of such feeling is that of fear. Fear of losing power, fear of being proven wrong, fear of being expose, fear of the truth.

With the arrest of RPK and Teresa Kok, the arrest and subsequent release of Tan, shows the world or at least the small minority of people with interest in this nation, how we as society fears the truth. Or maybe a better word to replace society is the government.

The reports filed by JAKIM and several other government bodies against RPK is a clear indication of how immature those in the government departments tackle such an issue. What RPK did was write his opinion on what he thinks is the 'rightous' Muslim. The key word here is his 'opinion', his view, his understanding of the matter. It was an opportunity for Jakim (Jabatan Kemajuan Islam Malaysia) to give their 'official' definition of what is rightous and what is not. All they have to do is prove it using all the Quranic words, all the Hadiths, all the Ijtihads, all the Fatwas, that prove RPK wrong. But alas, they miss this opportunity.

They miss an opportunity to gain public support, and most importantly public understanding on the issue at hand. They failed miserably in their duty to preach in wisdom, to preach the truth, to preach in patience.

On the arrest of Teresa Kok, I would believe that most 'reasonable' people will come to a conclusion that this was a political act. Why arrest her in the first place? Why not arrest the person(s) that spread the story? Teresa Kok already denied it in public, if there's any such truth to the claims then why not the aggrieved party bring it to court or report it to the police and let due process takes place?

Why not let truths be guiding light of our society? Why such fear of the truth? All of these are symptoms. Symptoms of a dying society, or of that of a failed government. A government that cannot bear the truth, because the truth of the matter is that the government is a dying beast. And unfortunately it will take us down with it.