But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last. - Ray Bradbury (Fahrenheit 451)

COMMENT Here we go again. The stronger the whiffs of the upcoming general elections, Malaysians show their true colours. Everywhere you turn race is injected into the discussion in lieu of matters of principle or policy.

It's easier this way, when the harried most probably racialist voter understands his or her place in the greater scheme of things when everything is just black and white.

If you're a Pakatan Rakyat supporter, most probably you'll vote across racial lines to spite Umno and if you're a BN supporter you would probably do the same hoping that the old race formula holds true despite the fact that non-Malay support seems to have shifted to Pakatan and the hawks in Umno day by day make it clear that perhaps the way forward for Umno is without the support of the non-Malays...