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Minister-Without-Portfolio and NTUC Chief, Mr Lim Swee Say, was
quoted by Channel
NewsAsia as having said:
“If you’re the best today, strive to be better. If you’re
better today, strive to be ‘betterer’ and if you’re ‘betterer’
today, strive to be ‘betterest’ so that over time, Singapore’s
service standards can just keep getting better, ‘betterer’ and
‘betterest’.”
Below is a response from one of TOC’s fans, Kayln Asahi, on our
Facebook
page:
Beyond all the rants about
linguistic abilities, what I took away from his statement is that
no matter how hard we try we will never be good enough. Because
even when you are the best, you can still do better. No matter how
much you have achieved, you can achieve more. If a parent or boss
keeps saying that to you, how will you feel? – Never
good enough. And that is a very stressful, pressured and
unhealthy environment to be in.
With ministers sprouting
brainless thoughts like these and the MSM publishing all these
sh**, what kind of culture are they building here? There’s every
economic indication that we are doing well here but there’s no
heart matter in Singapore. We will never be anywhere near being the
World’s Happiest
Countries. How can we be happy when most
regular folks are trying our darn hardest to do our jobs well and
live with rising costs yet members of the government keep dropping
statements like as if not enough is done. It’s never
enough.
Look, if we are already the
best, we strive to maintain that standard and keep that position.
That in itself is already a tall task. Telling people to strive to
be better than best, how more greedy can they get?
What are your thoughts on this?