Have we really evolved? (our minds i mean)

Most of you may have heard of the "showing-affection" issue. The issue that is rather discreetly debated and not publicised for the whole of malaysia to read about and laugh at the prehistoric mindset of our government.

I recalled one weekend morning i was at breakfast with my parents. The fresh bundle of the sunday mail resting on the counter was displaying 3 combination pictures of unsuspecting couples photographed while holding hands in public areas. Managing to squeeze in 2 more pictures of hugging couples on the front headlines.

Below the captions read "ministry urged by the public to define immoral behaviour".

Apparently a chinese couple are now fighting for their future and integrity in court because they were caught by officers while showing affection to each other in public. And from what i know, the couple were hugging or more decently "showing affection" when they were approached.

Immoral behaviour you say?

Yes. French kissing or petting(sexual meaning, nothing to do with animals) in public is definately an indecent act what more sex? But hugging? And hugging in this case means the loving warm kinda hug and not the touchy touchy kind. Holding hands?! Even talking about it seems ridiculous. Malaysia does seem to be progressing well, growing in population, high rise industrial locations and world class skyscrapers are sprouting out like mushrooms. These are the things that makes us proud, that puts us on the world map so that foreigners would not think that malaysia is a part of china anymore. But look at the protocol of how things are being run here. In a whole different way, it makes most of us and me embaressed to be a citizen of malaysia.

Lim Kit Siang did say in his journal that in a certain way, the government has got to draw a fine line between law and religion. Its understood that certain religions may prohibit showing affection publicly but that rule does NOT abide to others who are of other religions. And a person of that certain conservative religion is founded guilty, the authorities of that particular faith should take action only. Law of malaysia and law of a religion is a different concept altogether.

It is worrying, that somehow maybe when mahathir presented vision 2020, he might have this vague image of every malaysian being robots by that time. No affection, no love around, love only exists behind closed doors.

Put aside the sheer irrationality of general and turn to the schools. It may be implemented only in my school that a snapshot of 2 people of different gender is considered indecent. One glaring example is the selections of class layout by certain teachers for the school magazine. Photos and even whole layouts have been rejected because "this guy is too close to this girl" when both heads are almost a yard apart, or "guys are not supposed to stand beside girls".

And ironically, it seems that the goverment is shocked at the responses of many young adults who are still in the dark of what a vagina is or how do babies come about. Urging schools and private societies to emphasise heavily on sex education for the youth.

One corner we have plans to bombard youths with sex education and how to have an open mind and in another corner our asses are being busted for showing affection openly.

My religion abstains me from false speech. But sadly that is hard to oblige to especially when we're being force-feeded with glorious praises for this country in moral education when we very well know its as bullshit as it can get. Sucks, but we have no other choice if we want that A1.

All those possibilites of us humans evolving into far intelligent lifeforms in the near future can be scratched out because we're actually devolving. Especially malaysians.

Jinny