IT has been quite a week (or maybe a month – no, a year!) in news that has inspired and incited anger, or more diplomatically, a collective sense of disappointment.
A professor recently called us a “nation of extremes”; perhaps that is the most fitting way to describe us. Be it good or bad, we definitely react in the most heightened manner: Merdeka/Malaysia day – heightened sentimentality, onslaught of nostalgia (which is not a bad thing); racially charged news stories – heightened outrage (according to what suits our agenda, of course); transboundary haze – continued anger and then the usual blame game; buying items from only specific sectors of society – let’s all stop buying things, period.
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