I refer to the Malaysiakini report More Umno leaders urge PM to quit soon .

I had a good laugh reading this report. All these belligerent and blustering Umno warlords clamouring for Abdullah Ahamd Badawi's resignation seem to believe the present PM bears all the blame for Umno's mortal injuries in the recent elections.

The truth is that a vast majority of Malaysians across the racial and cultural spectrum voted against the dead-end feudal mindset in which these Umno diehards are trapped. To them, replacing Abdullah with someone "ferocious" (read ‘intimidating’) and prepared to re-entrench Umno's dominance by every means available, including authoritarian rule, will salvage the wreckage of Umno's pride.

They forget that the original Umno effectively died in February 1988 during the battle of two Umno titans - Mahathir and Ku Li - and that the current Umno (Baru) was a hastily slapped- together sham of a political party that has no agenda, ideology or vision apart from serving to enrich its leaders at the public’s expense.

These dinosaurian parochial minds only understand a world that's already passing - a neo-feudal paradigm in which the elite feed parasitically off docile and ignorant serfs and applaud their every emptyheaded utterance.

Too late lah . The rest of us have shifted into the digital age which mimics the fractal, self- replicating nature of the Internet - a technological quantum jump that, more effectively than any form of indoctrination, democratises virtual reality... and then actual reality.

In cyberspace, the centre is nowhere and everywhere and decentralisation is how memes spread at lightspeed along optic-fibre networks - the same way thought travels through neural circuits within us and modifies our behaviours and perceptions.

When Rehman Rashid of the NST ranted against the rising tide of uncouth and ‘unqualified’ bloggers - whom he despised for their ability to reach a worldwide readership despite shortcomings like a semi-literate command of English or outright na V vety, gaucheness and even immaturity - he was really lamenting the transition from traditional hierarchies to an embryonic egalitarianism.

In any case, such myopic and noisome outbursts from the remnants of Umno - apart from their entertainment value as slapstick political comedy - can only strengthen the Pakatan Rakyat government-in-waiting by making their vision of a de-ethnicised and democratised management style all the more appealing. So let's have more of it, please.