This is a very interesting article on the much-discussed “Millenial” generation, and their attitudes to public service (or, probably more accurately, political participation through elective office.)
In many ways, it confirms what I read and hear about many young people, in Malaysia too. There is deep frustration with the way elective politics is played, and profound sense of betrayal as young people observe the nitpicking and petty mud-slinging that makes up the charade of national politics in the modern age.
Perhaps this is just a phase, perhaps a down-cycle in the history of Malaysian politics. But the deep sense of disappointment, accompanied by the boldness with which young Malaysians express their views through social media, suggests that politicians may never recover the public esteem which the rakyat has long imbued them with.
