I wouldn't take the risk to be flamed and sued by MM just to get
useful input.
This is the sort of attitude instilled into our younger
generation by certain actions of Lee Kuan Yew.
Sad.
A serious blow has been dealt to our intellectual climate in
Singapore society.
Tan Wah Piow talks about Singapore:
So do you still pin the hope on the younger
generation?
I think in every political process, they still need new ideas. The
youths seem more distracted and show more concern for materialism
than political ideals. Singapore wanted to use, although not
overtly, Israel as a model to harden national consensus and the
sense of national survival.
But I think that is a different context because Israel is very
different from Singapore in terms of ethnicity, religion and so on.
You can't copy the whole model, the idealism and the sense of
nationalism, The urgency is not there.
The whole justification that Singapore can't have democratic space
is that you are surrounded, and thus adopting a kind of 'under
siege' mentality. You might get some support in the early period
but not in this age. I can always pack up and go, then come back to
Singapore as a visitor.
http://singaporerebel.blogspot.com/2006/05/exiled-dissident-tan-wah-piow-on.html
