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A simple clause/sentence can have brutish implications for the intellectual sanity of the Malaysian academician.

A simple sentence/clause can clearly illustrate how these academicians are being controlled and their intelligence subdued. It takes us to deconstruct the clause and analyse what kind of 'truth' it embodies and how the 'truth-force' operates in the learning environment, to understand how thought-control operates.

The clause I am referring to is from the now infamous Surat Akujanji (Pledge of Loyalty) for 'government servants'. Let us inquire into the genealogy of the production of the clause, how it is used to dishonour the university, and how the academicians are being silenced and stupefied by it.

The irony is that we have graduates from universities abroad who themselves were trained in the best and rigorous environment of learning that protects intellectual freedom.

We expect them to embody the ethos of a committed intellectual who will translate good expressions of freedom of practice, but instead, they have become the new colonisers of the neo-colonialist state.

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