Azly Rahman

We the voters are responsible for installing 'guided democracy' and allowing an illusionary sense of 'order and harmony' to prevail.

'You are all equal. Nobody has superiority over the other, except by piety and good action.'

If we wish to remove all Acts that are anathema to a healthy thinking culture, we must rethink how we think.

How do we reconstruct the consciousness of our higher education institution, so that its body politics can create a holistic sense of beingness?

Bright and hard-working Malaysians regardless of racial origin who now call themselves Malaysians must be given all the opportunities.

The Malays need to find a mental model of how they should think and be able to ride the wave of globalisation.

The German philosopher Frederich Nietzsche once said: "Educate! but first let us educate the educators."

We are only interested in producing a generation of students skilled in memorising facts and to regurgitate them when the need arises.

I received a letter from the lawyers of UUM demanding me to apologise for my writings on UUM and forcing me to stop writing on the issue of my dismissal.

Close your eyes. Take a deep breath. Take seven more deep deep breaths. Stabilise your breathing. Go deeper into the word of your supra-consciousness until your reach a space. A space of bits and bytes.

Mental colonisation sustains the Master-Slave narrative as long as space and time permit and resources are available for exploitation.

An open letter to 'a respectable leader of a Malaysian political party'.

We wrongly call brutish politicians 'Yang Berhormat'. They should be called 'Yang Tidak Patut di Hormati'.

UM - the 'Columbia University of Malaysian academia' is yet to recapture its glory that was once build by many a profound scholar.

Malaysia, with the MSC project, has become 'inter-textualised'. Who benefits from all these?

Approach each religion from a philosophical standpoint in order to draw out the best from what it has to offer.

At every elections come, the promise of a prosperous kingdom comes. Pay raise comes even to the ones undeserving, so that they will continue to pledge allegiance.

What is wrong with this country? Aren't we more mentally advanced than the many a war-torn nation that summarily execute journalists and truth-tellers?

Perhaps it was. That would be the answer to the event that has become embalmed as a semiotic of racial conflict. Perhaps it wasn't planned.

Students facing expulsion for wanting to learn about the political process? For organizing talks on making political choices?

In terms of political consciousness, we are already in a coma. We are a vegetable. The closing of the Malaysian mind is complete.

From slogans to songs to scenes of chaos, we see the increasingly dangerous trend of campaigning.

The will to be corrupt will only intensify if we do not perform a frontal lobotomy of its source. The source is the locus of control the center of power.

The process of turning the colonised into colonisers is a complex yet discernible one.