Shifting the blame

Lately there have been reports of foreign/subversive elements trying to destabilise our country. Firstly there's America..... the Jews... some Christians... and finally.... the Communists.

As someone who spends an average of only 2 hours a week outdoors, I probably shouldn't be commenting on matters happening outside my house. HOWEVER, since I do own an old 29" idiot box that can't seem to stop lying to me, I think I have the right to speak up.

It's not hard to notice that every single time our country is faced with a crisis, we immediately blame these 'foreign' elements.

Religious tension? blame the foreign Christian NGOs. Economic crisis? blame the Jews. Political turmoil? Blame the Communists. And George Soros. Again, maybe the Jews. While we're at that might as well blame the Christians.And it goes on and on and on.

Well, you might blame Utusan, or even the government for the crime of using the Jews, some foreign Christian NGOs, and sadly even our own Chinese Malaysian brethren as scapegoats. However, if we were to look into the recent APCO fiasco and the comments under MalaysiaKini articles on relevant issues, you will find that this is not confined to the people in power and their supporters. Even the opposition, especially opposition supporters seem to be guilty of this rather unfortunate naivety.

Let me tell you that our biggest enemy is neither the Jews nor the Communists.
Our biggest enemy is our own mentality, refusing to accept that we have flaws and we need to improve ourselves.
Our biggest enemy is our willingness to be enslaved and subjugated by this habit of persistently shifting blame to others whenever we fail to deal with our own problems.
Our biggest enemy is our refusal to believe that we are responsible for our own actions/inactions.

The world is changing, national borders are fast becoming irrelevant. If we fail to step up our game, we won't have to look beyond the straits to see failure, we won't have to look at Indonesia as a definition of misery, we won't have to look at the Philippines as a model of mismanagement;

We just need to look in the mirror.

p/s: It was no coincidence that when I crashed my mum's car into a grocery shop, my first response was to blame the Koreans for making such a lousy car. Look at where Hyundai is now.