In the past couple of months, we have been beleaguered with a lot of news about the embezzlement, mismanagement, corruption, money laundering, fraud and etc on 1MDB. I am not a politically inclined person, but such news does create a lot of worry to me.
Scandal?
The main thing about 1MDB started with the RM42billion scandal that supposedly went missing (the numbers might be wrong). Yes the amount seems to be a lot but to the bigger scheme of things – its not an amount that will bring down Malaysia to the state where its similar to Greece. Our GDP is way way much bigger than this. Similarly, the amount of debt that was accumulated by the PTPTN is also about the same amount. Though PTPTN is somewhat more understandable as at the very least with the amount of loan – we will get quite a huge number of educated (or what every they call it).
So many things are happening!
To be honest, there has been a lot of buzz about 1MDB about who’s at fault, how its connected to to the political powers, about the bosses here and there. Everyday I open the news, I can see new articles about what has happened. From the money laundering, to some directors being remanded. Man – to be honest, as I was telling my friends – the whole scandal would make a good Hollywood movie, if it was a scandal. I don’t know.
Information Overload
There are too many information out there, and I don’t who to trust. From SarawakReport to Utusan (really?) to The Star, The Edge. Damn a lot a weih. As a citizen of this country, with the access of the information, hopefully we have the level of maturity to be able to decide what is right and what is wrong. What to believe and what’s not to believe. I seriously don’t know whether our society is matured enough to handle the great amount of information. In the past decades, the information are controlled thru various means. From the news that you see on TV to what is released on papers.
With the electronic age, all the news are available at our fingertips. Just do a quick google – we probably can see so many things. Question – do we trust everything that we read?
The answer – at least for me is NO. Responsible journalism? Responsible blogging? There’s no governance what so ever out there. Yes – the news outlets probably has that but a lot of the other things.. NO. Too many people are putting news on what they think is right, and there are too many people too who just read the headlines and shared it with their friends. Next thing you know – the whole world thinks that the sky is blue, the sun is cold and the moon is hot.
Viral – is it wrong?
Honestly – I am NOTÂ saying that the news are all wrong. I am saying is that we need to take everything with a pinch of salt. When people say A – we need to have the decency to make our own research to qualify this. The world is way too open out there for us to spread false news. As much as sometimes we are emotionally driven, we need to maintain our composure to make sure we don’t spread the wrong news.
Miscommunication at its best
I give for example the Lowyat incident few weeks ago. There are so many information out there that I have no clue what’s happening. The only thing I know is that there has been videos about fightings – racial tensions between different races.
Is it true? I am not so sure.
Did the guy stole the phone?
Was he cheated in the process?
Crazy shit yo! And reading the comments that was posted by different people just amuses me. Am I missing something – where is the information. Or is there some misinformation out there.
Closing
Anyway – the world is changing – or rather changed. We need to be wise with our opinion – especially what we post on the Internet. It will end up somewhere somehow.As much as we want to keep it private, it won’t be private. Let’s make sure we process our information properly – before we decide what to post.
THIS ARTICLE IS PURELY PERSONAL VIEW.