“The world condemns liars who do nothing but lie, even about the most trivial things, and it rewards poets, who lie only about the greatest things.
– Baudolino, Umberto Eco
Our boss travels the world telling everyone everything’s ok with Malaysia. Some part of me can understand why he does it; it’s national interest, it’s to avoid a loss of confidence from investors, but mostly I suspect, it’s to avoid the embarrassing conclusion that his administration has been ineffective if not incompetent. In the meantime, someone who tells the truth must come out in the open wearing sunglasses, sporting a month-old beard and trying to look everything but his normal self. It just goes to show how popular the truth is in Malaysia, doesn’t it?