History repeated

Remember reading about "Kaum Tua" and "Kaum Muda" in history lessons,let it be during SPM or Malaysian Studies. For those who don't remember,Kaum Tua (Conservatives) and Kaum Muda (Modernists or Moderates) fought a ideological battle before and during the Independence period,the Conservatives want religion to be a part of the government while the Modernist wants to have a secular government.Sure enuff,the Modernist won and the Conservatives took the back seat.

At present,the same battle is being played out but unfortunately it seems that the Modernists are losing out,the Conservatives are tightening the noose around the Modernists' neck by using the rules that the Modernists had placed.

The problem now is where is the Society heading to? Towards being a Modernist or being Conservative. What happened to those young modernists? Were they caught by the system and forgot about their ideals or are they bidding time?

Yes,we are using our own formula to achieve greatness but we are facing new problems which the system isn't being build for.Must we wait till some cries that the emperor is indeed naked or just follow the flow and hope that the new blood will flush the old?

How lucky we are if the problems are just internal but alas,the pace that the world is shrinking,external problems can be internal ones and vice versa. The West as always have misread the East. They always think that the solutions that they have is universal but how blind they are in reality.They must be able to understand that a square block can never always be fitted into a square hole.

I wonder how the future looks like? Would the Dragon truly take his place in court after sleeping in deep slumber or would the Eagle still keep her status? But one thing is certain,the Bear and Crane is losing ground fast.