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A new publication “Don Quixote Windmills” is like “The Ingenious Knight of La Mancha” striving for visionary ideals and the hero imagines himself to be fighting giants when he attacks windmills. Uncle Zed (the biographical main character) anecdotes of his past management consultancy projects link up with the COVID-19 conundrum and resulting world developments.
Apart of Armageddon arising from the east there are dashes of quirk tales of a twenty-first century quixotic management consultant. It’s not the arrival of an army of two hundred million from the Orient as the host forces destroying the ancient Romans or ending Churchill’s Aryan stock of western hegemony but the COVID-19 pandemic creating new norms and a new world order.
Biblical book of revelation applied to events of the present age can be read as the new corona-virus becoming the plague apocalypse.. In Uncle Zed’s mind the description given in the text ruled out this army being human. Zed is the manuscript biographical character He has an uncanny gift of absorbing unbalanced things not in place and to crystallize little nuances pointing to a bigger reflection of world developments. This smacked off as a Sherlock Holmes celebrated chuckling ”Elementary my dear Watson” quip.
The masses who long for justice now sense that we’re now on the cusp of a great change. Work-from-home set-ups have become more optimized and alongside conflicts in international trade high global unemployment levels have risen in tandem with individual countries. In Malaysia about 40 percent of small- and medium-sized enterprises will have to wind up their operations if the COVID-19 chain of infection persists for three to six months or up to August 2020.
Part 1 excerpt: The fleeting interaction with the Division of Entrepreneur division in the early 1990s could be engraved as Uncle Zed’s first wild windmill encounter. The mild epithet of fighting rogue windmills nonetheless reflected Uncle Zed’s cheerful enthusiasm for small business development. The villain windmills of Zed in the 1990s were steeped in attitudes of complacency and mischief of policy makers.
Part 2 excerpt: Watson dear, there is an ever on-going challenge of generating beneficial innovation to raise levels of livelihood and standards of living. We need to act upon the inertia and lifeless situation of a community in respect of poor innovation otherwise the sluggishness in motion will tend to stay in that lethargic motion.
“All my bags are packed, I’m ready to go. . . The taxi is waiting, He’s blowing his horn” a song made popular in the mid-60s is not alluring to the COVID-19 dire circumstances . . . Zed must have noted airlines slashing seat capacity by more than 70% since January 2020. The decades-long aviation boom created jobs and hundreds of millions of first-time fliers. The great cultural and economic phenomena of the postwar world ended in a matter of months the new coronavirus reset how families rich and poor travel over continents as air travelers could wait at least six months after the virus is contained before flying again.
Part 3 excerpt: Uncle Zed had a special attachment to the Fisherman Cooperatives sector. The fisherman and small farmer community in Malaysia sprout the most decent individuals filled with sincerity as their foundation upright character. He had in the mid-1980s wanted to re-capture lost opportunity represented in the fishermen by-catches or waste.
Watson dear, the Brexit trajectory since the new coronavirus crisis is broken as April 2020 kicked in with the UK economy shrinking by 24.5% compared with April 2019.
Part 4 excerpt: “So who will stop the rain?” Zed muttered softly. The rain lyrics of the CCR song then appeared more to questioning the sad state of affairs of failing societies, trapped in “new deals wrapped in golden chains.” The twenty-first century Don Quixote continued humming Clouds of mystery pouring confusion on the ground . . . caught up in the fable I watched the tower grow.” The intriguing John Forgety song fitted nicely in crystallizing governance gone astray.
Zed is a professional quixotic character immersed in living life to its fullest yet in passive enthusiasm he churns up situations where commoners can excel in their role of fulfilling their obligations to their maker. In matters of being upright, some of his anecdotes provide pertinent illustrations which provoke the layman to view scriptural philosophy beyond dogmatic religious notions.