stupid lesson

i am having problems understanding the malay folkstories that involves Hang Tuah.

to me, he is a stupid idiot who abandoned friendship for some spineless sultan.

i think Hang Jebat oozes macho-ness in a way Hang Tuah never will be.

why do we have to take hang tuah as a hero when hang jebat was the one we should look up to? i mean, he defied the sultan for the sake of his murdered bestfriend who was falsely accused of adultery by the sultan.

are we trying to promote the practice of following someone's order blindly without questions?ikut membuta tuli walaupun bende tu salah. that is even wrong in Islam! we're humans gifted with brains for god's sake. dogma is out of the question!

whenever i think about how hang tuah is proclaimed as the malay hero, i feel somewhat angry for the fact that hang jebat was labelled as the traitor instead, when all the while he was trying to honour his "slain" bestfriend who in the end killed him instead because the sultan said so. that. is. pathetic.