MAY 24 — Why can’t Umno carry the Malays to greater progress? Because
it’s a low trust organisation. It doesn’t trust the majority of Malays
and it doesn’t trust the rakyat in general. It has ceased to become a
political party. It has morphed into an organisation of black hands
composed of three million members. It puts its trust on the three
million members NOT on the rakyat. This is the principal reason why we
must reject Umno.
It fears the rakyat and their judgment. The leader of Umno who calls
others accursed bastards is willing to unleash the instruments of
suppression on the rakyat, firing water cannons and spraying tear gas
that immobilise people instantly. Where did the Umno government buy the
new variety of tear gas? From Israel?
Umno is not trusted nor does it trust those outside itself. This is a
hallmark of a backward organisation composed, like Dr Mahathir says, of
a half-past six leadership belonging to an organisation which is rotten
to the core, corrupt from top to bottom and made up of dullards.
Mahathir said all that.
We have a simple proposition then. Can we bank our future on such an
organisation? Why should we trust Umno with our future if it doesn’t
trust us? We must reject Umno because we want to bequeath a better
country to our future generation. We owe it to the next generation who
are now struggling to cope up with the increasing cost of living, who
can’t find jobs because the country is mismanaged economically, or
managed by sub-standard leaders. We owe it to those who can’t afford a
decent house because a house near where they work now costs RM700,000
per unit.
This coming election is for us to lose, NOT for Umno to win. We lose
if we let our guard down and be complacent. We must continue to raise
the people’s consciousness and reject the deceit and lies perpetrated by
Umno. We must reject the Umno-controlled media instruments such as
Utusex Malaysia, Berita Hairan and TV¾.
The only other organisation that operates like Umno by trusting
people within an organisation and who has recently adopted the act of
oath taking or bai’ah is the Cosa Nostra aka the Mafia.
Because of this, Umno can never stimulate or induce voluntary
co-operation and sacrifice from others. Umno can only get co-operation
and sacrifice by paying others. This ability of creating trust between
social groupings which leads to co-operation is known among social
scientists as social capital. The concept of social capital was
developed famously by Francis Fukuyama.
The basic idea behind the concept of social capital is this. A
society with high trust (trusting others beyond just its organisation or
its own grouping) is able to develop and prosper better. A society with
low trust will always remain low on the scale of progress, being able
to prosper on the fringes and like the Mafia outside normal society.
Now, apply that concept to Umno. Umno trusts only its members. That
is why it is obsessed about having three million members. If the rakyat
doesn’t trust it, it hopes it can do it alone by trusting only its own
members. It’s therefore a low trust organisation. Just as a low trust
society occupies the lower end of the scale of progress, so does Umno.
Therefore, how can a low trust organisation that nowadays manages to
invite only distrust and revulsion carry us forward? —
sakmongkol.blogspot.com
* Sakmongkol AK47 is the nom de plume of Datuk Mohd Ariff Sabri Abdul Aziz. He was Pulau Manis assemblyman (2004-2008).
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