We live in a time of ideological, philological, and semantic confusion, I feel, because we have trapped ourselves in words; because we use elusive concepts to define words we employ, to argue, to clarify, to elaborate, to extrapolate, to state our point of view, to deduce, to induce, and to conclude and to lock ourselves in this prison-house of language and we swallow the keys.

I am still trying to grasp the meaning of the ongoing, futile debate between, especially the ‘liberals’ and the ‘Islamists’ of Malaysia and to discern not the dichotomies and the seemingly irreconcilable worldviews that seem to clash with each other a la that Samuel Huntington thesis produced some time ago.

There is now a ‘liberal’ camp and an ‘Islamist’ camp. We must look into the mind of these campers, some happy and some unhappy, and see what the neural network of complexities look like, what concepts gets linked from one another as the sub-concepts of the definitions try to find way to connect to what is meaningful as if they are creepers in my Walden II, some sweet smelling, some not.