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Saturday, December 31, 2011

All great Truth began as Blasphemies……



There were hundreds of thousands of piles of burden everywhere.  It was prohibited to share burden with anyone else. Each and every one was supposed to take his own burden but it was so heavy that anyone who tried to load the heap of piles on his or her shoulders failed miserably.  Rule demanded that failures will be asked to take extra burden each time they fail. It was very difficult situation.  No one was able to take burden and each time they failed their burden increased. Rule persisted and custom of failure became ritual of the new order.  This order was based on the insanity of negation of” the truth of the day”. They said in new order days will be renamed as nights and nights will be renamed as days. They said “warm” is “cold” now according to new philosophy. Order said anything which begins with “T” capital is blasphemy of order of the idiot-logy.  Order said sejarah...i.e. history is either ugly wall of present or epic of past which no one belongs to. Order said if someone will do transgression he or she will be send to Buru Quartet. The fear of Buru Quarter silenced minds and hearts-wills and wishes…

Prohibited T capitals where “Truth”, “Tarrant”, “Torture”, “Tolerance”,  “Tell” and “Telling”.  In all kitabs tartib of kamus was altered.  They arrested those who talked about ghost stories--- as order was not able to control hantu (ghost) but only human beings. So when they were humans they were able to be controlled by the new order through ordinance of” the prohibited T capitals of 1965 clause“ ------ while when the light of life was off they become hantu and they began to transgression and haunt the order -------that was only choice they had.  Everywhere the National Monuments became site of pilgrimage to affirm the idiot-logy of the new order.  Then May came and new order was exiled. New order later on lived like Dutch hantu lives only in the archives and in cemeteries!  

Reformasi…….

 This is what they said “the new order of new order”. Order was like Randang Asli----- everyone cooked it through its own way as democracy was the experimental lunch of existence for the subjects of the orders—and everyone put its own salt in it as to make it tasty. People were confused. They wanted to test is but it was bitter again. They said those who eat salty lunch of existence will regret it and those who will refuse they will also regret it. As Order was just the order of the regret and people were born to redeem everyday as they were just like “toys of the orders”. 

Then come big Tsunami. It washed not just everything on earth but loved once also. But on the top of this loss and grief waves upon waves of Tsunami halted the advances of the order. Tsunami came and new and old order was gone. Big birds came to recuse sons, and daughters of the Bhumi.   Birds transported them to for off places…. to the other world ……they heard in fairy tells……located on the land after the seven seas. Sons and daughters stayed there to learn how to retreat this new order of the order. Daughters and sons were confused that why these orders order them to be ordered in ordered way which in fact is totally disordered and misordered way.  They realized that though old order is gone but still they don’t let them be what they want to be.  But no one knew what to do. They were silent. New books said Jangan lupakan sejarah is wrong now it will read as…Lupakan sejarah”[1].              

 Daughter resented the order she said “the crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms are appearing”[2].           They accused her of blasphemy of “the prohibited T capitals of 1965 clause” and “1998 Bukti Bukti act”. She was aggravated.  Daughter said aren’t we all were fighting for democracy, liberty, and to be what we want to be? Haven’t that fateful May been called “The new Age of Reason”?

Why I can’t be what I want to be? Who we were fighting against? Enemy is gone. Why don’t you………… all my brothers and sister look into yourself? Why you negate my freedom? Was I am not part of this war for the liberty of the soul and body? Why you don’t understand that I am with you all in this blind folded world of the stupid orders which are not made for us? And why you all are behaving to me like “the new order”? Why you are today against my freedom? Did you forget that yesterday we all were accused together as traitors and today you all are accusing me as traitor?  Is it because I am daughter…… it is because I am woman…. It is because you don’t trust yourself? 

Why don’t you all grow-up? Why don’t we let everyone to choose his own path for his own destiny and let not stop anyone like “the new order” stopped all of us for more than thirsty years!
Why you want to stop me for another fifty years to gain my freedom. Just remember all great Truth began as Blasphemies……today it’s me… and tomorrow it will be you…. But today you accused me but my brothers and sisters I will fight along with you against enemy tomorrow even though today you all are fighting against me…
I just want to say... I love you……………………….


[1] Imaculata Kurniasanti (2009) Ghost Stories: Public Memories of the 1998 Riots in Indonesia.                                   MA Thesis. Austin: The University of Texas at Austin.  
[2] Gramsci Selections from the Prison Notebooks (1971)

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