Kuala Lampur, April 11 -- My friend from Bangsar via Kluang has a simple solution for our country's problems, have fewer Malaysians in the problem-solving.

To him, it's the people who are the problem. They are constantly unaware of what is important, distracted by the petty and way, way too involved in their own insignificant lives to be objective, informed broadly or worldly enough to be anything other than an impediment to those actually capable of providing the solutions.

Stay out of the way and let the experts save the day!

It draws me back to my school visit to Tun Razak Memorial decades ago. Room after room, walls adorned with pictures of the former prime minister personally overseeing a young nation's march to progress. To see r...