Originally posted by Daddy!!:
i tell u what is democracy: it is idealistic and hence it is termed
an idealogy. no one practices democracy 100%.
Anything that is beyond
materialism will have to be idealistic.
If a Human has no idealism, the person is no better than the lowest
species of being an animal.
Even in the animal world, within the different species - animals
''aspire'' to procreate to preserve their lineage, and battle for
supremacy of large territores.
For Humans, we should be better than heirachic rule of the animal
kingdom - in which the strongest rule the pack.
Idealism is an idea that one aspire to reach and to have, while the
concept of Democracy of government that has been developed since
the period of ancient Greek history.
Is the idea of Democracy such an idealistic concept that cannot be
attained - given the superior intelligence of the Human Kind that
has evolved through the centuries ?
Democracy require consultation and agreement between the leadership
and those who are led.
The intelligence of the Human Kind is a discerning one, able to
move ahead or around obstacles - to reach the highest rung of
political and social development even on a step by step
basis.
How certain are you that the Human Mind is inferior and must behave
like only animals in accepting the concept of the strongest ruling
the pack through brute force only ?
Democracy passes the power to the masses, the people. It works
better for a homogenuous population which a common identity. In
singapore? it hardly works because we are barely less than 50 years
old and our people are not homogenous, with cultures belonging to
distant lands. people who advocates democracy for singapore are not
thinkers, they are doing it for their own selfish desires, the
desire to de-throne Lee family and P4P.
The United Kingdom and USA is as
much a melting pot of people from different societies and
ethnicities, yet it is from a self-imposed democratic level playing
field that allowed a society of non-homogeneous people to excel -
so that the sum total intelligence of everyone is mobilised to
propel the entire community forward.
In such a non-homogeneous society as the UK and USA, if there is no
idealism nor the concept of Democracy, the worst imagineable
scenarious would have occurred, and some had occurred but nipped in
the bud by an alert community that is determined to snuff out such
extremities and radicalism.
Why should a 50 year old Singapore not be mature enough to practise
democracy ?
Are you not half-way to the age of 50 years - perhaps at age 25, or
more - at 35 or 45 ?
If you still consider yourself to be immature - you are perhaps the
few over-sheltered Singaporeans still living with your parents and
refusing to think or develop yourself independently.
Sadly, if you consider yourself to be immature at your age - with
children calling you Daddy!! - how are you ever going about to be a
morale guide to your children ?
Is it so selfish to have the desire to dethrone the Lees {Family
???} or the P4P, when they have displayed no qualms to protect
their own selfish
interests - at the expense of Singaporeans ?
Are you being realistic in your statement made so publicly ?
