Had you ever and even ask yourself this fact?
Yeah, I have and I did. By the time I was in JC something
already struck me as being not quite right, and as I went along I
looked at how excessive control was being exerted in a situation
where the example of Japan's expanding economy had already shown
five years prior that people needed to be pushed forward, not
yanked back by leashes. Yet Singapore's culture was one of
adamant complacency that "yes sir, no sir, three bags full" was the
way to go, and actively went out of its way to stamp out
independent thought.
That was 1992, and that's when I decided that my energy was
better spent a place without control freaks who would evetually run
the ship aground, and I started putting together my plans to
leave. I'm not going to rub it in by describing my
circumstances in detail, but suffice to say I'm living very
comfortably, and this is the product of foresight, not of the
hindsight with which you assume I speak. Let me know if you
ever come to Melbourne and I'll show you exactly what I mean.
Point is, right or wrong, necessary decisions made in the past
ensured our survival today
You don't see it, do you? After all of this talk about
Singapore being an economic miracle, making it to First World
status and all that jazz, don't you think that by definition, it's
out of place for a First World country to be talking about mere
survival?
I do wish people would make up their minds - has Singapore made
it, or has Singapore not made it?
If Singapore has made it, it's time to get past the "we must do
this to survive" nonsense because the name of the game need to be
advancement, and not survival.
If Singapore hasn't yet made it, then for the love of God can we
stop drinking the "LKY made Singapore a miracle" Kool-Aid?
Either way, you're right. The past doesn't count.
You know as well as I do it's today, and the MoM figures I've
posted already show that trouble's past brewing, it's spilling over
the edge. It's time to wake up and smell the coffee instead
of falling back on rose-tinted recollections of the 60's -
80's.
