“An idea is like a virus, resilient, highly contagious. The smallest seed of an idea can grow. It can grow to define or destroy you.”

– Cobb (Inception)

COMMENT | I do not know if former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad will be “erased” from our political landscape.

However, I do know that his ideas will continue to define the direction of this country until we either lurch into a theocratic state or a group of political operatives coalesce and reject those ideas that serve as the first principles of the “ketuanan” state.

Non-Malays can point to the old maverick and claim that he is all that is wrong with the country but your average Malay (who in some cases has a vote that carries more weight), owes it all to the former prime minister.

Mahathir gave them everything. He taught them how to...