http://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com/2009/01/will-malaysia-be-monopolized-by-few.html
There is a need for greed in this post-colonial British country. It is the need for greed at a high speed that is killing the rakyat/masses fast.
From the need to monopolize plantations, public works companies, investment brokerages, private hospitals, television stations, media conglomerates, satellites beaming 100 channel televisions that turn kampong folks into soap-opera and Bollywood junkies, right up to airlines that need newer landing grounds that will also turn surrounding areas into Disneylands — Malaysians are now addicted the fascination of monopolizing.
The game MONOPOLY by Parker Brothers must have been a good socializer to the idea that monopolizing and being greedy is good. For decades the ideology of monopolizing has shaped the consciousness of Malaysians and monopolizers are considered heroes of the Malaysian-styled laissez faire world of corporate-crony-crypto capitalism. There is even a Malaysian version of the game MONOPOLY that is based on the cities of Cyberjaya and Putrajaya.
MONOPOLY killed America and many other nations. The capitalist world is collapsing under its own weight.
In Malaysia, the game is “rent-seeking” monopoly and of “interlocking directorateships” especially in the GLCs government-linked companies.
The rakyat/masses are merely spectator happy to read about first Malaysian billionaires, world-class Malaysian companies, and who’s who in the Malaysian corporate world.
The rakyat are happy that they now can fly cheap, that they are reading about how famous Malaysia is as a great “medical tourism” destination, and which Bollywood star will get a Datuk Seri-ship.
We are a nation, like Sisyphus — imagining ourselves happy. In a country where the few monopolizes and the need for greed is growing at a great speed. It is as if the few wants to plunder the nation as fast as they can before the entire country, like the story of Firaun/Pharaoh and Qarun in the ancient scriptures, is swallowed by the weight of power, arrogance, and wealth accumulated.
God Bless my country — right or wrong.
But the rakyat must rise against the greedy few.