Lust: the foundation of humankind (UPDATED with Chinese translation)


Then the English made one huge mistake, as did the Christian missionaries. They built schools and started educating the Malays. Then the Malays began to speak English better than an Englishman and sometimes with a Winston Churchill accent as well. Then the educated Malays began to be taught one very important word, lust. The Malays were told if they did not possess lust then they would be viewed as lazy and backward. They needed to have lust to prove that they are progressive and successful.

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Raja Petra Kamarudin

Lust is very important. Without lust we would all not exist. Lust is what drives us. Lust is both constructive and destructive. Lust builds plus it destroys. And lust is not only the foundation of humankind it is also the foundation of the Abrahamic faiths. Without lust we would not have ‘Religions of the Book’.

There are some who believe that God created Adam from dust or earth after first turning it into clay. Then God allowed this lifeless statue to set as the angels in Paradise all gathered around curiously watching God at work. God then blew a soul into this statue and it came to life.

God then instructed all the Angels to kowtow to Adam, who is going to be the Vicegerent on earth. All the Angels complied except Iblis. Iblis saw how God had made Adam, who is merely from earth, while Iblis is made from fire. So how could a more superior being created from fire kowtow to an inferior being made from dirt?

Basically Iblis suffered from the lust of power and pride. Adam was a weak creation and hence did not possess much power. Adam had emotions, feelings, needs, and whatnot and hence was weak. Iblis was not weakened by all these human ‘failings’. Emotions, feelings, needs, and so on, are weaknesses, which Iblis did not possess. Furthermore, earth is weaker than fire. Hence no way would a more superior creation kowtow to a weaker creation.

Iblis’s defiance incurred the wrath of God. God then punished Iblis by evicting him from Paradise and by condemning him to an eternity in hell. Iblis then requested that God hold back sentencing until the end of time. Iblis told God he would in the meantime like to prove to God that Adam is weak and therefore Iblis was justified in not kowtowing to Adam.

God agreed with this proposal and challenged Iblis to prove it. Iblis has carte blanche to try to mislead Adam and prove that Adam is weak and can be misled. Of course, Iblis will eventually be sent to hell at the end of time. In the meantime Iblis can try to mislead Adam and try to bring him (Adam) to hell with him (Iblis).

Soon Adam became lonely and craved for a companion. God then created Adam’s companion, Eve, from Adam’s rib bone. Adam took one look at the sexy Eve and went “Woh!….Man!” and that was how Adam’s companion got the name woman (this part the holy books somehow did not record).

But thus far Iblis had not succeeded in misleading Adam and to get him condemned to hell. So Iblis tried to work on Eve instead and to use Eve to mislead Adam. We of course know the story about the forbidden fruit and how God angrily threw Adam and Eve out of Paradise for disobeying the instruction regarding the forbidden fruit and how Adam and Eve ended up on earth and soon bred like rabbits and today there are seven billion of us running around doing bad things to each other.

That is the story of the creation of humankind, as some ‘people of the Book’ believe happened. And since coming to earth, or rather since banishment to earth, humankind has been plagued with the disease of lust — lust for power, lust for wealth, lust for domination, lust for a good life, lust for recognition, lust for victory, lust for success, lust for sex, and much more. 

So this is what drives us, lust. This is what makes us succeed, lust. This is what makes us fail, lust. This is what makes us dominate others, lust. This is what triggers wars, lust. This is why we kill, lust. This is why we seek power, lust. This is why we persecute, lust. This is why we discriminate, lust. In short, all our strengths, weaknesses, successes and failures can be attributed to just one thing, lust. We never act unless guided by lust.

Of course, we will never admit this. We will hide behind all sorts of excuses to justify our actions. We will give all sorts of labels to our actions to present them with a noble image. Ultimately, however, it all boils down to just one word, lust.

Businessmen are driven by the lust for success and wealth. Politicians are driven by the lust for power and domination. Religionists are driven by the lust for power and domination. Everyone is driven by one lust or another and will act driven by this lust and will not call it lust but will call it something else that sounds nobler. Ultimately, call it what you want, it is still lust.

Any society that does not succumb to lust would be viewed as a backward society. The Malays used to be like this once upon a time. They were once very happy tilling the land or harvesting the sea. That is why the early Malays were perceived as lazy people. They had no ambition. They did not mind being oppressed or dominated. Anyone could lord over the Malays. Malays were always colonised by one power or another.

You could even tell the Malays to convert from Hinduism and Buddhism to Islam and the entire community would become Muslims although they did not really know what ‘true’ Islam is and many became Muslims steeped in Hindu and Buddhist beliefs, customs and traditions.

The Siamese came and the Malays called then tuan (lord). The Hindus came and the Malays called them tuan. The Indonesians from Riau, Aceh, Java and whatnot came and the Malays called them tuan. The Portuguese came and the Malays called them tuan. The Dutch came and the Malays called them tuan. The English came and the Malays called them tuan. The Japanese came and the Malays called them tuan. The English came again and the Malays called them tuan.

Then the English made one huge mistake, as did the Christian missionaries. They built schools and started educating the Malays. Then the Malays began to speak English better than an Englishman and sometimes with a Winston Churchill accent as well. Then the educated Malays began to be taught one very important word, lust. The Malays were told if they did not possess lust then they would be viewed as lazy and backward. They needed to have lust to prove that they are progressive and successful.

And the Malays who would believe anything you told them began to believe this. And soon the Malays lusted after power and wealth. And the Malays were no longer satisfied with just tilling the land and harvesting the sea. They now wanted power and wealth.

Then the British introduced the English system of government and the English system of how to choose this government. The British also taught the Malays how to cheat to gain power so that the minority could lord over the majority. Soon the Malays began to learn that those with the largest and most number of guns would win the argument. 

The Malays soon realised that power comes from the barrel of the gun and about how effective British gunboat diplomacy can be when the minority wishes to lord over the majority. So you need military power to attain political power and in turn attain economic power. The Malays were convinced through this British education that domination is crucial and that political power plus economic power can only be achieved through domination.

The British taught the Malays that they needed to reduce the Monarchy to a mere Constitutional Monarchy but the Monarchy must not be abolished and Malaya turned into a Republic like India, Indonesia and whatnot (or else the majority will rule). The Malays must retain the Monarchy and turn it into a symbol of Malay dominance or else the Malays would lose this dominance.

Then the Monarchy must be made the Commander of the military so that military power would always remain in the hands of the Malays. Then, with this military power, the Malays would have a grip on political power, which in turn would guarantee the Malays economic power as well. 

The Malays were ‘spoiled’ by the British. The Malays used to be very happy tilling the land and harvesting the sea with a colonial master lording over them. Then the Malays were sent to school to receive an English education where they were taught they needed to be more like the English.

The Malays soon refused to till the land and harvest the sea. They now wanted to wear white long-sleeve shirts and ties and sit behind a desk signing documents. Then the Malays realised that they no longer needed tuans. They could become the tuans instead. Why work for a master when you can become the master? Why help the white colonial masters get rich when you can take these riches for yourself?

Today, we have a different breed of Malays. We have a breed of Malays that has been taught lust and who now allow lust to drive them. I suppose this is what Iblis wanted. It is the game-plan of Iblis to spread the doctrine of lust and make humankind lust after power and wealth.

That is the downside of educating the Malays. And once educated you cannot un-educate them again. Lust is a very powerful driving force. It makes us do bad things and makes us think that bad is actually good. But that is what the Malays have become. And you have no choice but to live with this situation. It is no longer possible to send the Malays back to the land and the sea.

The Malays have tasted what it is like to become the master of the land. And the Malays want to be seen as the master of the land. The Malays want to be acknowledged and recognised as the master of the land. And if you try to tell the Malays otherwise you will be confronted with very hostile Malays who would regard you as a robber who is attempting to rob him of his right as the master.

Sigh…why the hell did the English and Christian missionaries go and build those schools and then educate the Malays in those schools? If not the Malays would be very happy being colonised by anyone under the sun as long as they could till the land and harvest the sea.

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欲望:人類的根底

然後英國人就像基督傳教士般犯了一個嚴重的錯誤;他們開始建造學校和對馬來人供書教學。然後馬來人開始講起比英國人還要好的英文,他們甚至還帶温斯顿·丘吉尔的口音。然後那些受教育的馬來人開始學會了一個很重要的詞,那就是欲望。他們被告知如果他們是不帶有欲望的話那他們就會被認爲是落後和懶惰的。他們必須擁有欲望來證明他們是上進和成功的。

欲望是很重要的,沒了它我們根本就不會出現。欲望是推動我們的動力,它可以建造但同時也可以毀壞。欲望不止是人類生存的根基,它還是亞伯拉罕諸教的起源根基呢。沒有了欲望我們會看不到這些‘經書的宗教’。

有人相信上帝是以泥土創造阿當的。當時上帝在天堂把粘土拉成沒有生命的人像,而祂的天使們很好奇地圍繞著祂觀看。上帝然後往這人像吹了口氣,那個人像就有了生命活了起來。

上帝要所有天使向阿當跪拜,因爲阿當即將成爲地球之主。所有天使都遵從這個命令,除了伊布力斯 Iblis以外。阿當是由泥土所捏造的,而伊布力斯則是從火焰中創造出來的。一個從從火焰中創造出來的優越物怎麽可以向由泥土捏制的劣質物叩頭呢?

基本上這就是伊布力斯對威力和面子的欲望的表現。阿當是個軟弱的創造品,所以他的威力並不強大。阿當有情緒,感情,需求等等,所以他是軟弱的。伊布力斯因不具有這些人類的‘弱點’所以他沒有人類般這麽軟弱。再者,泥土比火焰弱得多。所以說,身為一個優越者他是不會向劣者叩頭的。

伊布力斯的舉動把上帝給激怒了,上帝遂把他逐出天堂要他永世都貶入地獄。伊布力斯向上帝要求,求祂延刑至世界末日才執刑。他告訴上帝在這期間他會證明阿當是軟弱的,然後借此來證明他不向阿當跪拜是沒錯的。

上帝同意了伊布力斯的請求,祂也挑戰伊布力斯來證明自己是對的。伊布力斯從此有了張‘空白支票’,可以隨時誤導阿當來證明阿當是軟弱的。當然,到了世界末日伊布力斯還是得下地獄的,但從現在到那個時候他可以誤導阿當以便阿當可以和他一起下地獄。

過了不久,阿當就開始感到很寂寞而想要有個伴,上帝這時就取阿當的肋骨創造了夏娃。而在這個時候伊布力斯還沒有成功地誤導阿當,所以他開始把目標轉移至夏娃身上。過後關於那個禁果的故事你們都知道了,上帝把阿當和夏娃逐出了天堂,而他們來到了地球就開始像兔子般不停地生育,所以我們看到了今天全球有70億人口每天都對自己和他人做出不好的事情。

這就是人類起源的故事,很多‘經書的跟從者’都相信這個故事。自從被放逐到地球以後,人類一直都患上了欲望的疾病—-對權力的欲望,對財富的欲望,對控制權的欲望,對生活素質的欲望,對名聲的欲望,對勝利的欲望,對成功的欲望,對性愛的欲望等等。

欲望就是我們的動力,欲望就是令我們成功的因數,欲望就是令我們失敗的因數,欲望就是令我們控制他人的因數,欲望就是令我們殺人的因數,欲望就是令我們尋求權利的因數,欲望就是令我們迫害他人的因數,欲望就是令我們歧視他人的因數。總歸一句,我們優點,弱點,成功與失敗背後最大的因數就是欲望,如果沒有欲望來促使我們根本就不會做出什麽行動。

我們當然是永遠都不會承認這一點的,我們會用一切一切的理由來合理化我們的舉動。我們會用很多的標簽來高尚化我們的舉動。但到最後,我們舉動的背後還是欲望這個詞。

商人的動力來自對成功和財富的欲望。政客的動力來自對權力和控制慾的欲望。宗教份子的動力來自對權力和控制慾的欲望。所有人的動力來自欲望,他們會被這些欲望所推使而採取行動。然而,他們都不會把這稱爲欲望,他們會為他們的行動灌上一個更高尚的名義。但到最後,你可以給它一百個名稱,它都會還是欲望。

那些沒有屈服于欲望的社會都會被稱爲是落後的社會。馬來人曾經是這樣過日子的,他們都很開心地種田捕魚。這就是爲什麽以前的馬來人都被認爲是很懶惰的,他們都沒有志向。他們不怕被他人壓迫或控制,任何人都可以統理馬來人;馬來人一直以來都是被其他權力給殖民的。

你可以告訴馬來人他們必須從興都教或佛教轉成皈依回教,而他們整個社群都會照你的話去做,雖然他們都不懂‘真正’的回教到底是什麽。很多人在皈依回教后仍然保持著興都教或佛教的信念,文化和傳統。

暹羅人到來時馬來人稱他們為主人。興都人到來時馬來人稱他們為主人。亞齊和爪哇的印尼人到來時馬來人稱他們為主人。葡萄牙人到來時馬來人稱他們為主人。荷蘭人到來時馬來人稱他們為主人。英國人到來時馬來人稱他們為主人。日本人到來時馬來人稱他們為主人。英國人再次到來時馬來人稱他們為主人。

然後英國人就像基督傳教士般犯了一個嚴重的錯誤;他們開始建造學校和對馬來人供書教學。然後馬來人開始講起比英國人還要好的英文,他們甚至還帶温斯顿·丘吉尔的口音。然後那些受教育的馬來人開始學會了一個很重要的詞,那就是欲望。他們被告知如果他們是不帶有欲望的話那他們就會被認爲是落後和懶惰的。他們必須擁有欲望來證明他們是上進和成功的。

那些你講什麽他們就信什麽的馬來人開始相信了這一點,他們很快地就開始對權力和財富有了欲望。他們不再對種田捕魚感到滿足了,他們想要擁有權力和財富。

然後英國人就開始介紹他們的政府系統和如何選擇政府。英國人也開始教會馬來人如何騙權和如何以少數人管制多數人。馬來人很快地就學習到了那些擁有最多和最大火力槍械的人永遠會在爭辯中勝出。

馬來人開始知道權力是從槍管裏出來了,他們也開始明瞭儅少數人想要管制多數人時英國人的戰船外交政策是很有效的。所以你要先取得軍事權才能取得政治權和經濟權。馬來人被英式教育説服而認爲管治權是很重要的,只有通過完全的管治那他們才能取得政治權和經濟權。

英國人教馬來人說他們必須把君主的權力削弱成憲法制君權但他們不可徹底地摒棄君主制,不然馬來亞會像印度,印尼等變成一個共和國(當時就是多數人掌權了)。馬來人必須保留他們的君主和把他轉換成馬來人管治權的標誌,不然馬來人就會失去這個管治權。

然後馬來君主必須成爲軍隊的統領以便馬來人能永遠地掌握軍權。有了軍權,馬來人就能取得政治權,進而經濟權就會落入他們的口袋了。

馬來人是被英國人‘寵壞’了。他們以前會很開心地種田捕魚而不會去管殖民他們的外來勢力。但後來他們都被送去了學校而被教導他們需要變得更‘英國人’。

很快地,他們不再滿足于種田捕魚了,他們想要穿西裝打領帶,坐在辦公室簽文件。然後他們就意識到他們不再需要主人了。爲什麽儅你有能力成爲主人時你還要為其他主人效命?爲什麽你要幫那些白主人賺錢而你自己可以把這些財富佔為己有呢?

今天,我們看到的是另一種類的馬來人,我們看到的是被教會擁有欲望和被欲望驅使的馬來人。我想這就是伊布力斯所要的東西吧;這是他的最終使命:散播欲望主意使人類去追逐權力和財富。

這就是教育馬來人的缺點,而一旦你教育了他們你不能再‘反教育’他們。欲望是個很給力的推動力,它會促使我們做壞事和令我們把那些壞事想成是好事。但這就是現在的馬來人了,你除了接受現實以外你別無選擇。你不可能再把馬來人都送囘農田大海了。

馬來人已經嘗到了儅主人的滋味,而他們也要被看成是這片土地的主人。他們要被承認為使這片土地的主人。如果你嘗試要告訴他們不同的東西的話,那些很懷敵意的馬來人就會把你看成是來騎劫他們儅主人權利的匪徒而對你進行圍剿。

嗐。。。爲什麽那些英國人和基督傳教士要來這兒建立學校和教育馬來人呢?要不是他們的話,馬來人應該還會很開心地在耕田捕魚和屈服于其他殖民者呢。

 



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