ZUKERBERG ELEGIES: Part 2, Azly Rahman quotes (from status page)

QUOTES, Part II
by  Azly Rahman


1.     there is no need for the Internal Security Act in Malaysia .. there are no more communists only communalist-corporate-crony-crypto capitalists addicted to communal-politics ! -- ar


2.     ultimate reality can be seen if one uses a lantern in broad daylight – ar


3.     Time, with thee I conspire with Fate and Free Will; unto thee I offer my salutation, from Dawn to Dusk to Darkness daily I see thee tells the story of who I might have been and yet Evolution I must become, the story of Creation I have been told. O Time, I wish all of creation know Thee – ar


4.     Read ... Read thyself; for thee is a book of signs, symbols, signifiers, of the semiotics of spiritual symbiosis of the self and the larger self; of truth within a truth, of chakras configured from chaos connected to the cosmology of cosmic consciousness; of a lamp within a mirror; of a speck of dust evolving and wishing to know; of a text inscribed by the textuality of truth temporal -- ar


5.     a teacher who sees the child through the eyes of race, color, class, creed, religion, and caste, has no business in education; for teaching is that subversive art and science of developing human potentials so that the child will grow up to revolt against any system that puts him or her in the shackles of race, color, class, creed, religion, and class -- ar


6.     O People of the book: Greet  not the fasting month with a feasting mind, asketh not for rewards for  the deeds you bring forth, worship not only when hardship greets,  live a halal life of charity, nobility and purity even in a haram and  corrupt economy, above all know thyself and you know what governs thee eternally -- ar


7.     we come from love and unto love we shall return in between these lies the deep understanding of what love and the absence of it means; of suffering and liberation, of appearance and reality, of the evolution of consciousness and the destruction of it, of the entering of paradise and the expulsion from it, of the realization of beauty and ugliness, of the grayness of good and evil -- ar


8.     O' capitalist societies, capitalist selves: be subjected to the ramadhanization of existence; for fasting is the act of slowing down your sense of urgency to accumulate and to acquire capital taken from Nature, from the Natural self; to slow down the desire to rob the poor, rape Nature, and revolt against Love. verily, a life of detachment, of dharma, and the realization of moksha is a life free from dhukka -- ar


9.     O' self, between darkness and light we met and we mediate upon the covenant we are to make, as we contemplate putting thee in the abode of Love, where Paradise is never lost, where Nature is the Ultimate Self, and as dawn breaks we set forth to encapsulate thee into a soul, spirit, and body as we greet the light of darkness and set thee free to roam the Earth and to seek for thine self within a guide in thee -- ar


10. O' self, thou have shed tears of fear and loss of meaningfulness at the dawn of creation, at the onset of thine journey through this matrix of complexities and the Mandelbrott of spirituality. Did not thou agree to carry the gift of love and knowledge and rememberance of things past? Go forth and seek for the guide within, so that thou will see Maya clearly. -- ar

11. O' self, ask not what the nature of truth nor the form the guide taketh; these will come to thee in thine waking hours of labour and thine conversations with Nature, & in thine deepest reverie when night falls and when solitude is thine companion, for the righteous path will be many and will be one, as the mind becomes science and the soul become a lotus that blooms a thousand times, piercing the eyes of reality - ar

12. O' self, with sincerity, explore all possible roads that may lead to self knowledge; one may arrive first in a prison-house of language, in a tower of babel and end up feeling the pleasure of experiencing the universal in the particular, the profane in the sacred, the falsehood in truth, and the grandiose-ness of the minutest of things - ar

13. O' self, read ... read thyself ... read ... even if it takes a lifetime to do so; for thou are a book of signs that began as a tabula rasa constructed out of scripts whose ink drawn from the fountain of Love and Plenty so that thine existence will become a scripture of scripts and subscripts, of narratives and meta-narratives of the Grand and the Subaltern -- ar

14. O' self tame the Fire within for thou is a kingdom in itself; a master of thine's destiny with Fate decree and conspiring; command the armies, the counsels, the playwrights, the scribes, the artisans, the musicians, the designer of battlefields within; for thine is a powerhouse of creations of many a worlds to be created in thine's journey towards everlasting bliss -- ar

15. O' self O' people O tribes O nations see what destruction humanity has done when the stone is carved? The stone was forced to become -- carved, constructed, characterized, and made to colonize; from the stone carved, the powerful amongst you will invent, install, and institutionalize ideologies that seal the fate of humanity into becoming cogs in the wheels of absurdity. from stones we evolve. O'self, O' society, inside of thou resides beelzebub, iblis, satan, the demon mara, the darkest of the darkest human instinct, or whatever name you may call it; one that reincarnates into human systems, statesmen, tyrants, semiotics of power, casino capitalism, demonic-hegemonic cycles of civilizational force --- know it, tame it, subdue it, bring it to de-evolution do that you may arrive at nibanna -- ar

16. O' deepest self: in earth, wind, fire water lies the metaphysical semiotics of thine's creation and in the universe outside lies thine's universe inside; rejoice, for thou is one with Nature; as that cybernetic energy imbued with an existentialist design of flesh and blood; rejoice and revolve, like Newton's universe, in harmony with thine's chakras within -- ar

17. O' self ... childhood, youth, and old age are merely in thine imagination; for the mind, the spirit, and the soul are old as the universe if thou knew that ecclesiastical history of the self, and the cosmology of creation; for thou is merely a symbolism of Time and Space constructed as an experiment in the workability of creation; do we exist hence? -- ar

18. O' people, guide thine youth to spend their early years in the pursuit of knowledge and the passion of its application and the beauty of its bhakti to humankind; teach them well in the way so of the "jen" or the gentlemen, as Kungfu Tze would say, and turn them into deep thinkers who cares for the fate of society and a...t the same immersed in the joys of growing up and finding meaning in being wise adults -- ar

19. O self, suffering lies in one's inability to detach oneself from materials, people, places, and the urge to accumulate more than one could possibly share. Liberation thus is to live a life focused on higher goals, ideals, principles and living a life honoring what one needs and not feeding one's greed. Live a life of mindful living, aware of the semiotics of Desire colonizing -- ar

20. O self, journey into the past, to battlefields of yesteryear like those of Kurusektra, Peloponesia, Trafalgar, and slay thine dragons and demons thou have nurtured out of passion, desire and arrogance thou hath tamed not; confront these as well as the skeletons in thine closet and come home to the present victorious like Arjuna, Alexander, and Ashoka ... so that peace of a thousand years shall reign thine heart -- ar

21. Life is not a losing battle; it is a glorious gift to the self -- ar

22. Become an ethnographer to thine's own life an archaeologist of consciousness, a philosopher of living; catalog the data of experiences, analyzing what thou have gone through, so that thou may have conversations with thine's own inner culture and reconstruct those patterns not longer in sync with thine's concluding chapter of the Book of Thine Own Signs -- ar

23. enjoy life, responsibly :) -- ar

24. O' self, O' people, recite merely not thine holy scriptures; journey hermeneutically into it - recite, read, read, re-read, construct, deconstruct, dive into its dialectics, so that thou will find the meaning of each passage closer to thine's own desire, stripping off disabling cultural contexts of the world of yesteryears and ultimately it is you who will become the text in your own existentialist context -- ar


25.  Uganda to Malaysia, from Krakow to Kuala Nerang, from Pontianak to Pontian – we see nations, states and principalities being transformed by those who own the means to use "culture, race, and ethnicity" in conspiracy with technologies of domination.We must, as a nation at risk, begin our debate on these – because ...we are seeing things falling apart before our eyes. The seeds of destruction have germinated. – ar

26. ala weberian ghostly ethics & the spirit of capitalism, women are possessed by men with possessions and vice versa & often men and women come back to each other later in life to re-possess each other ... that's what happened in a world being possessed by possessions -- a phenomena in 'jin bertendang' (kicking 'djinns')... places such as Pontianak, Lubuk Antu, Pochong/Puchong, Mambang-di-Awan, and Gua Musang –ar

27. When i was 10, I wrote these words in my dairy: "Sail to the ocean of silver .. study hard to be clever"; little did I know that there is no silver ocean nor you need to study hard to be clever -- all you need is a blue ocean strategy that'll get bloodied eventually and to battle against sharks and piranhas to survive in a capitalist cut-throat economy and hope that you'll end up in an ocean of mercy -- ar

28. O' people, Religion is merely a logical structure of human experience vis-a-viz the Divine so that the mind can explore the meaning of religious rituals & symbolism, nature of existence, meaning of God, evolution of the self as it journeys, through Love and Compassion, toward the larger Self;. Religion provides the idea of... how human beings must treat each other in this sea of Humanity and in this Ocean of mercy -- ar

29. DE-EVOLVE folks, through a green party; go back to kampongism, marhaenism -- capitalism is dead -- ar

30. O' self: find the meaning of life, even in the Godfather movies; for the Universe has made us an offer we can't refuse -- ar

31. O self: be in this world as a stranger; thou do not exist except as a self conditioned by systems created by others, controls imposed on the mind, narratives inscribed by thine elders; exist shall not in this state no longer if thou knows that this journey of life is one of becoming a postmodern flaneur and a destroyer of perceptions, creator of illusions, and preserver of thine's complex inner government -- ar

32. O self: be in this world as a stranger; thou do not exist except as a self conditioned by systems created by others, controls imposed on the mind, narratives inscribed by thine elders; exist shall not in this state no longer if thou knows that this journey of life is one of becoming a postmodern flaneur and a destroyer of perceptions, creator of illusions, and preserver of thine's complex inner government -- ar

33. go green --- in mind, body, politics; our society is too bloody red and pitch black, our politics death metallist, our environment raped till its' s blue black and diseased -- ar

34. "... Because the manufacturing of crises and the bogeyman called race and ethnicity is no longer a working tool of structural violence to be deployed as a reason to create havoc and chaos come the 13th general election, religion becomes the next available sharp object to pry open the mind of Malaysians so that fear of another riot can be filter-funneled into them. .." -- ar in Malaysiakini

35. O' self jihad till thou see the crystal clearness of thine soul, in everlasting O' Malaysians: how must we construct a more accurate definition of a native, an immigrant, a first/second/third generation of this or that? Why must we not question history if we are to become new makers of it? Why must we still treat the grandchildren of immigrants as ‘second-class’ citizens? Why must we not accord them with opportunities that resemble equitable/regulative justice? -- ar
blissfulness thou shall be -- ar

36. O' Malaysians: how must we construct a more accurate definition of a native, an immigrant, a first/second/third generation of this or that? Why must we not question history if we are to become new makers of it? Why must we still treat the grandchildren of immigrants as ‘second-class’ citizens? Why must we not accord them with opportunities that resemble equitable/regulative justice? -- ar

37. O' people: activism and revolution alone cannot bring instant peace to any nation; it is the deep understanding, deep structuring, and the mass disseminating of love for all things great and small that will give everlasting meaning to desired change. it is the absence of love that creates spaces for greed, hatred, and ...violence subtly factored into systems of control and organized chaos -- ar

38. One's youth should be spent being buried in books, getting lost in the forest, drowning in contemplation, being awed by Nature, resisting falling in love, rebelling against society, dreaming of revolutions, having the desire to change the world, and learning to play rock and roll music -- ar

39. O Teachers: teach children and love them, especially those of the poor and marginalized, as if they were your own; for success in education lies in our ability to look at the children through the eyes of humanity; verily teachers, you have such an immense power to develop-- or to destroy --- the curious young minds. use that power wisely -- ar

40. In Malaysia, there seem to be no positive correlation between the increasing religiosity of her people to the level of violence, environmental degradation, loss of respect for democracy, hate crimes, and abuse of power at the highest level; it simply shows that religion has been bought over by politics, resulting in th...e mass silencing of the citizens in the name of leaving things to Fate and to Iron Rule -- ar

41. this holiday celebration, smoke a peace pipe, rap the racists, rock the vote, banish the blues, run the reggaeton, dive into dangdut, grow with ghazal, get dizzy with disco, contemplate with the classics, journey with jazz, take out the thrash, get high on heavy metal, parachute into punk rock, sing along on the sitar, drown sorrows in dondang sayang, bathe in the nice-ness of nasyid, ... have a safe holiday -- ar

42. to understand Death, one must first contemplate what Living means -- ar

43. O' self, daily thou undergoes karma - ar

44. a hari raya unexamined is not worth celebrating - ar

45. O folks, friends and foe -- have a psychedelic, fantastic, phantasmagoric, non-toxic, phlegmatic, bucolic, non-alcoholic, scenic, dialogic, bombastic, symbiotic, semiotic, semantic, supersonic, tantric, mystic, tribalistic, nationalistic, socialistic, anti-capitalistic, mantric, chantic, rendangisi-tic, lemang-istic, satay-istic, chendol-istic, and most of all psychedelic Eidul-Fitri -- ar

46. every child is born a prince or a princess and hope to evolve into a king or a queen but will end up enslaved by the machiavellian nature of human and social arrangements and by enslavers narrating the sheharazad's story of a thousand and one nights of the modern slavery system, lullabying the human mind into finding pleasure in this modern master-slave grand narrative -- ar

47. O' self do you not exist merely as energy in flux and in constant change of form, encapsulated in vergetation and rationality, evolving towards the universality of other forms and beingness and only language in its multitudinality of variations may define thine's existence? -- ar

48. O people, read those scriptures, not burn them .. there is wisdom and universal truth in each and every one of them .. for truth will come only to those who seek knowledge with an open mind and that light that guides within – ar

49. wage peace, not war -- especially on issues of religious understanding. -- ar

50. burn not but read the quran, terry jones and your brand of christianity; for therein the book of "readings or recitations" lies the story of jesus, mary, david, moses, solomon, abraham, noah, adam, of creation, of the real meaning of jihad, and many more on the self and the ultimate self -- ar

51. O' friends, my post-ramadhan message: at work, be driven like a siamese durian, drive safely to work in that reconditioned lemon, drive not your co-workers nuts, give your employees more than just peanuts, become an apple to everyone's eyes, be fresh as a freshly squeezed orange, groom yourself like a rambutan in a red shirt of a revolutioner, and serve the capitalists well in hope for a tricke down effect -- ar

52. Dissent is the highest form of patriotism, said Thomas Jefferson. Revolt peacefully we must, against our own governments that have become tyrants, becoming enemies to their own people; revolt through the ballot box, using social media and the internet to transform ourselves as informed citizens that will insist on changing governments like changing diapers -- ar

53. extreme nationalism may lead to the will of people to engineer and orchestrate genocide; the cure for this tendency is to think like a world-wise citizen in this globalized world of shifting allegiances in which race does not really matter but the fate of the human race does -- ar

54. woke up this morning with this burning question -- who or what would you die for? mother, father, wife, husband, girlfriend, boyfriend, motherland, fatherland, nation, race, or religion and god or yourself or for nothing at all? -- ar

55. In this Age of Complexity, men are now from Venus, women from Mars, those in between from Pluto; live a philosophically simple life, making the complex simple, the simple complex; live an anthropologically enriched life, making the strange familiar, the familiar strange; live an economically sane life, prioritizing nee...ds over greed, granting help to those in need for, from Thee we come, unto Thee we shall return - ar

56. there is no past, there is no future, all that is existing is an everchanging present, in world of the evolving self. rejoice, you are merely energy in constant flux and in hegemonic transitions enthrophized -- ar

57.  the success of 1Malaysia requires the voluntary dismantling of all race-based political parties, the surrender of all ill-gotten wealth, the installation of a humane system of meritocracy, the radical restructuring of all systems, the national envisioning of a good socialist system, the dismantling of all signs..., symbols, signifiers of power/knowledge monopolized, the celebration of manyness in oneness -- ar

58. greatness lies the grand awareness of humility -- ar

59. in language lies the prisons of reality -- ar

60. O' self -- at times, and perhaps, many a times, one must perceive life with cynicism and suspicion, scanning it with piercing looks ... though red roses bloom as backdrop ... they are but maya/darkness must become one's garment to shield one from the blurrying but mesmerizing forces of evil -- ar

61. The rise of violent crimes in Malaysia -- for the love of materialism, racism, and militarism -- shows that the country and her people need to urgently be in control of itself, before the entire nation self-medicates itself, OD-ed en masse, and commits suicide by jumping off the Twin Towers after strangling itself--ar

62. What is an American? How does an American think? Must the world appreciate the form of 'democracy' spread by the United States of America?

63. Malay power lies not in the ability to use the art of war to maintain its neo-feudalistic sense of making enemies with others but more dignified than this, lies in how power is used to transform others, to create a system of social justice and economic design so that Malaysia will become state that destroys the boundaries of race, color, religion, caste, status symbol, and most importantly vestiges of feudalism --ar

64. To change: Free the human mind from dogmas, superstitions, mental chains, hegemonic formations, and those levels of totalitarianism. Strengthen the scientific and philosophical foundation of its curriculum and practices to effect changes in the higher-order thinking skills of the next generation. Tolerate not, any form of bigotry, racial  chauvinism, and retarded form of democracy in our educational system -- ar
65. If it is to be believed that the lord of the universe is most merciful, most compassionate most forgiving, it is to be believed that the first step towards healing from the most horrible of all life experiences is to be merciful, compassionate, and forgiving to ONESELF; true love for oneself and that lord of the universe will begin to flourish. We are all human, all too human .. -ar

66. O' humanity/ Did you no remember the day in which/on one fine darkness of  neither day nor night we met?/In which thine has kept the promise to be free and to agree to walk with dignity?/That time when no forms nor substance nor appearance nor encapsulation makes thee?/Have thou forgotten that moment of deep silence that resounded gloriously/ like a symphony?/Did you remember what was told to thee? - ar

67. we continue to live in a (Andy) Warholian world in which love is for sale, anger is to be managed, human labour is to be capitalized, religion is commodified, politics is prostitutionalized, ethics is compromized, and fools glamorized -- in this age of mechanical reproduction, much like living in a Campbell soup can -- ar

68. O Humanity, all the senses that thou possesses, the signs and symbols of sight, hearing, taste, touch, etc. ... the personal-ideological-apparatuses of thine's entire self -- all these are merely metaphors and semiotics, i.e. signs, symbols, signifiers of a larger Self that wants to be praised. love, and worshipped by thine own self; in an absurd yet logical relationship - if thou knows .. -- ar

69. is there not a larger self inside of you; that travels with you to places, from the time you were born, till the time you are gone? -- ar

70. capitalism is not trickling down ... it's going up in the sky ... creating nothing in a world of globalization of nothing ...

71. Come GE-13 will Malaysians finally be ready for a change in government -- new paradigm, new mindset, new ways of doing things, new commitment to transparency, new vision in education -- and make way for a political culture of "two-party system"? Are Malaysians, especially Malays ready to leave UMNO, Chinese to leave MCA, Indians to leave MIC., etc. ? Ready or not? what will be the shape of things to come? --ar

72. to teach children about peace, ban war toys at home -- ar

73. any government must consist of technocrats and transcendentalists, bankers and bantusaan dwellers, classical economists and marxists, doctors and dying patients, enterpreneurs and existentialists, mandarins and musicians, poets and physicists, workers and Wobblies, farmers and fishermen, gardeners and gung-ho revolutioners -- so that the nation may be saved from sharks and piranhas in blue oceans of absurdity. – ar

74. O'self, O' society, inside of thou resides beelzebub, iblis, satan, the demon mara, the darkest of the darkest human insinct, or whatever name you may call it; one that reincarnates into human systems, statesmen, tyrants, semiotics of power, casino capitalism, demonic-hegemonic cycles of civilizational force --- know it, tame it, subdue it, bring it to de-evolution do that you may arrive at nibanna/nirvana -- ar