"It is a real struggle to understand why the Indian government would shut down large parts of the Indian economy and put potentially hundreds of millions of poor people’s lives at risk of starvation by locking them in their houses because a tiny fraction of the population has caught a flu virus." Original text: India’s lockdown may already have killed more people than “Covid”, and it will only get worse by Chase Reed; published on OffGuardian (18th June 2021) Produced by: Zeid Alqadri, Affiq B. Contains samples from: 1. Gens de la nuit (Single); performed by Clea Vincent; written by Clea Vincent, Raphael Leger; produced by Midnight Special Records 2. Who Cares?; performed by Gnarls Barkley; written by CeeLo Green, Danger Mouse, Keith Mansfield; produced by Danger Mouse; from the album St. Elsewhere (2006)

"If you repeated that process long enough, eventually, nothing would mean anything anymore, because everything could potentially mean anything - at which point, you could basically tell people anything you wanted and they would go along with it, because what the hell difference would it make?" Original text:  The War on Reality by CJ Hopkins; published in Consent Factory, Inc (29th June 2021) Contains samples from: 1. Keep Your Head; performed by David O'Dowda; from the album Velvet Ears: David O'Dowda (2016) 2. Who Cares?; performed by Gnarls Barkley; written by CeeLo Green, Danger Mouse, Keith Mansfield; produced by Danger Mouse; from the album St. Elsewhere (2006) Produced by Affiq B.

"Perlakuan Sisyphean ini adalah apa sahaja yang dilakukan berulang kali yang hasilnya sama, tapi kerana bodoh, tetap diulang lagi tanpa sebab-musabab kukuh. Diulang sampai mampus." Pautan artikel asal: 1. "Pelan bergolek sampai mampus" oleh Faisal Tehrani, terbitan FMT Kredit runut bunyi: 1. "Sysiphus" oleh Andrew Bird, dipetik dari album "My Finest Work Yet" (Loma Vista Recordings, 2019)

"Eloklah para raja di dunia ini merenungkan kejadian yang dihadapi oleh seorang manusia yang terpaling raja sekali dalam sejarah umat manusia." Pautan tulisan asal: 1. "Seagung Sulaiman pun dengar teguran semut" oleh Faisal Tehrani  Sampel runut bunyi: 1. From The Back of a Cab oleh Rostam (From The Back of a Cab, Matsor Projects, 2021)

"OB selalu sebut-sebut yang Islam-Islam. Orang percaya OB sebab dia pernah naik haji tiga kali. Satu kali masa belum sunat, iaitu masa masih kanak-kanak lagi dibawa sama ke Mekah oleh ibu bapa. Baru darjah enam tatkala itu sudah dapat tengok Kaabah. Sungguh suci." Jeng jeng jeng... Pautan artikel asal: 1. "Hikayat Ketua Jabatan" oleh Faisal Tehrani, terbitan portal Free Malaysia Today (https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/bahasa/pandangan/2021/04/08/hikayat-ketua-jabatan/) Kredit sampel lagu: "Vantablack" daripada album Vantablack oleh LUST (2020, Sanctuary)

".. but winning isn't always enough." @SelimSeesYou commented on @mtracey's observation about the lack of credit given to Joe Biden for winning the recent US Presidential Election despite towering challenges against him since the primaries. Link to original tweet: 1. https://twitter.com/SelimSeesYou/status/1352083973418217477 

"Hari ini demokrasi putih yang kita sandarkan harapan itu sudah menjadi gelap, hitam, bukat, juga kesia-siaan. Ia bukan lagi demokrasi. Bukan lagi. Kita tidak tahu apa ia, tetapi yang pasti ia bukan demokrasi. Jika kita hujahkan ia sebagai demi-kerusi ia malah tidak memadai. Ia jauh lebih menjengkelkan." Pautan artikel asal: 1. "Demokrasi yang dijahatkan" oleh Faisal Tehrani (https://www.malaysiakini.com/columns/559527)

"Kalian tahu, amat tahu dan lebih tahu waktu Dewata tiada mengganggu, kalian mudah berurusan dan bekerja sesama kalian. Kalian tahu serba itu, tetapi kalian memilih jalan untuk disumpah." @MohdFaizalMusa1 menelah lagak semasa pembangkang di Parlimen dan alam maya selepas angin tentangan mereka terhadap Belanjawan 2020 bertukar arah. Pautan artikel asal: 1. YB pembangkang FB & Twitter oleh Faisal Tehrani (https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/bahasa/pandangan/2020/12/03/yb-pembangkang-fb-twitter/)

The death of an employee who rammed his car into the office of a multinational manufacturing company where he was employed for more than 2 decades was absolutely shocking. In a video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_Y8Yp5ikw0), which he recorded at 4:30 am, he spoke about the depression and sleepless nights he suffered from what he deemed as blatant sabotage and conspiracy by a group of other employees against him. Yet a quick Google search of "Kathiresan Kumaresan accident" returned virtually no news about it, at all.  How sad. A Zeidgeist listener, who wishes to remain anonymous, empathised with Kumaresan's plight and shared with us his/her own personal workplace depression story. He/she reckons that the first critical step to handle the problem as a society is to acknowledge the situation and create stronger empathy towards those who suffer from mental conditions. RIP Kathiresan.

Perhaps the most controversial decision taken by many states worldwide in order to curb the spread of this bloody virus was shutting schools down. In less than a year, the lives of our kids (and the adults!) globally were disrupted at an unforeseeable scale. Many have been skeptical about the real benefit of such draconian and over-the-top measure,  amongst others, yet many were also too scared of the possible catastrophe of not doing it. @jeffreyatucker wrote about a study recently published in the United Kingdom on whether scarring the learning experience of our kids was worth the trouble. (Hint: nope) Link to original article: 1. It Was a Mistake to Close Schools, UK Study Concedes by Jeffrey A. Tucker (https://www.aier.org/article/it-was-a-mistake-to-close-schools-uk-study-concedes/) Sponsor: TrueStart Coffee SEA (https://cutt.ly/truestartshopee)