UMNO, MCA, and MIC must discard communal politics if they want to achieve a progressive and united Malaysian society.

What about ‘Leadership by example’? Have our leaders forgotten about it. We need good examples. Not waving keris. Not destroying temples. Not trying to own a human race or religion. There must be freedom without fear.

What about wet dreams???? Almost 50 years now !!!

Are we doomed as a nation? No necessarily so but could be. More importantly even if so, it won’t be anytime soon.

Yesterday, not being able to sleep, I watched ‘A beautiful mind’ the story of John Nash. It strucked me that John Nash’s ideas of the equilibrium point applies to our national diseases.

According to Nash, the optimal solution of a game with N-person is not that each person gets the most of what he can get of a game but rather the optimal point is when each person gets what he wants AND the group gets what it wants and furthermore it has to be by choice.

He further postulate that in that same game, its just as likely that if each person just try and get what it wants without regards for others, they they all end up with nothing.

The issue is this. What if the game is pre-determined such that choice is NOT free AND each group does not get what it can get most NOR come to agreement what it want for the group? The simple answer is the solution is not optimal i.e., it cannot be the best that it can be. So, if the solution is not optimal, then it depends on whether that game can be played so long as people find there is a marginal reason to continue to play that game. Whether there is a marginal reason depend on the rules of the game that among others must ensure that the game continue to grow benefit to each member marginally. As long as it grows, then the game can continue, otherwise, people will drop out of the game.

This is essentially what Hindraf is all about, their input to the game does not commensurate with their marginal gain. Its not they don’t get anything, but they think what they put in and what they get is not worth it. What UMNO zealots don’t get it, its not enough to give something, you have to give enough. If they try and force the players to play a game they don’t want to play on their own free will, then its force and oppression and that is actually means decrease the marginal utility of the game.

So according to Nash’s theory, UMNO/BN problem a is whether they can deliver enough and that is the issue - growth is slowing and everyone in this game can see its not going to be better in the near future. So their reaction is really to what they expect is the negative net present value of their marginal utility to play in this game.

So for the layman and the PM if he don’t get it, the problem is if you don’t want to change the game then you have got to deliver higher growth. If you can’t deliver higher growth, you have no choice but to change the game or the problems will continue - until the players change the game themselves and that game is Adam Smith’s theory - each man for himself until its gets what it can get the most from a game of absolute free-choice.

No we are not doomed as a nation but we may have to rebuilt or restart the nation with new rules later.

Don’t tell me that there was….gasp!…plagiarism by somebody akin to the ghost writers who write your thesis or assignments for you at RM 48 per page or something. Maybe the anonymous writer is one and the same person!!!

Are we a pirate nation with no originality?

Notice too the same reaction ……. ISA!!!