Today, in Sin Chew Daily (13 October 2008, Monday) headline, is the statements by Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin on the topic that UMNO needs to make changes and that there should be review of the economic policies and distributions of the wealth in the Country.
It was stated that UMNO must make the changes on the distribution of the country's wealth, review the issues that were perceived to be injustice (to certain quarter in the society) including education, language, religion, judiciary, execution of law and so on.
In life, we recognize that all of us are different, whether it is in physical forms such as the colour of the skins, the height and weight of our bodies, or in our spiritual forms such as the way we think, the religion we believe in and the culture that we practise.
In a society or even a country, we are also different through the systems we practise, the laws that we uphold and the language that we used.
All of us are different, there is no doubt about it.
We are different in all ways, that is the fact and the easiest way to proof is the different fingerprint that we all have and the different genes that we carried.
According to the Biblical story, men in the city of Babel, was a city that united humanity, where all spoke a single language and share the same goal. It was said that they wanted to build their city with the tallest building that would have top of the tower in the heavens. This Tower of Babel was dedicated to the glory of men. God saw what people have done and gave each a different language to confuse them and scattered the people throughout the earth.(Refer Genesis 11:1-9 ).
We are different and yet we all seek for equality. In the famous Declaration of Independence written by Thomas Jefferson in 1776, it was stated that "all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.
No doubt, there will never be equality amongst gender on the basis of physical strenghts and hormon difference. No doubt there will never be equality to chances as each one has his/her own destiny and there is no equality in democracy politics where the one with the majority voters will have control over the government especially when a candidate come from the majority ethnic group in that society.
In short, the dominant (in numbers) will always prevails. However, we cannot say that it is wrong as logic will draw to the same conclusion. The minority should adapt to the needs of the majority. It would be against the norm if ten person needs to learn the language or styles in living of one in order to communicate (the question of why many should submit to one arise). As such, the dominant in resources, knowledge, weapons, technology and wealth will always take precedent over the rest.
It was with this principle that our laws were made. The dominant should have the biggest shares first before the minority can be given the rest. Even the Darwin theory doesn't put equality as a part of nature. It was always about balance and not equality. For example, Arthur needs to eat 2 pizza per meal while Bob needs to eat 1 pizza per meal, to give 1 1/2 pizza in equal will be a waste in resources for Bob and suppression of needs to Arthur. There will never be equality.
To overcome the principle of the dominant comes first, the human civilizations adopt the principles of justice and equality. It was with these principles that all needs of the society be controlled and the basic needs of all be provided but not until the suppression leads to revolutions or war.
The idealogy of having a just and equal society is necessary to maintain stability and sustainable progress. However, it is always easier said than done. For the dominant UMNO to give up its rights when it is still gigantic cannot bring anything except chaos. The only option available is to increase the size of the cake and reduce the ratio of growth of the dominant and to bring up the minority. Only changes at the right timing will we have the dominant remaining relevant but would not be ignorant to the needs of the minority.
Only at the right timing will our society progress on merits and all these depends on policies that the government is willing to take and make. All said and done, it will require a lot of political wisdom should Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin intends to ensure a sustainable and progressive Malaysia. However, if he manage to do so, there will be no distance between him and the premiership.
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