Jokers!

During the medieval times, only court the jesters aka the jokers are allowed to speak of the truth, or well at least, they get away with doing so most of the time..

The logic I guess was very simple. The king wouldn't take seriously whatever was said by the court jesters, simply because they are supposedly characters of unsound reasoning (or so the king would have been led to believe)

And I think in the modern world as well, we also have our very own court jesters in the form of cartoonist who fills the pages of our newspapers daily with their own take of our daily lives ( and how to solve some of the problems- see picture).

I think more often than not, prominent cartoonist such as reggiee lee, lat, and zunar especially, are one of the many modern court jesters who sometimes, uses their cartoon to tell us what they think of our malaysian life, sometimes making mockery our of particular political leaders.

Like the king, these political leaders would certainly have no qualms being 'criticised' in art form by these jokers (literal meaning connoted) as they the cartoonist couldn't have meant any harm apart from getting people to have a laugh at it. Well at least these is how the political leaders would like to have believed, or being led to believe so ! :)

Ps: yes maybe we should have atm machines in our police stations after all! Maybe all the 7 elevens should be at the police stations ! :)


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