Is LKY's presence in Orchard Road
to have a feel of the ground, by merely walking around and
breathing the air, and feel the vibrancy of Orchard and later boast
that he knows what the People think and want ?
Will anyone dare to approach LKY and debate with him in any open
way without him feeling vindictive when cornered and speechless
?
The intimidating 'guard-dogs' are enough to dissuade
the elderly, aged, and destitutes to approach him - if one can find
any of these Singaporeans along Orchard Road.
Why did he not pick the desolate and quiet open concrete space of
Bukit Merah, and see first hand the living conditions of the
One-ROOMERS in this run down HDB heartland ?
In any case, the color 'White' - besides representing purity,
virginity, neutrality - also represent color-less, surrender,
blankness, and its blandness form an anti-thesis towards the broad
band of colors by diluting all colors into new shades.
Surely, LKY do not represent purity, virginity nor neutrality
?
His color-less and stark thinking of extreme forces leaves no room
for the middle ground, which has resulted in policy swings that has
affected Singaporeans over the last 50 years - 'Stop-at-2' of the 1960s to the
incentives to produce more in the 1990s; the necessity to obtain
'Suitability Certificates'
of the 1970s to restrict opportunity of tertiary education for the
political agitators that will belatedly morphing to regrets of
limited talents in the 21st Century.
LKY has surrendered the future political stability of Singapore to
the self-preservation of a political party that he has created. He
has surrendered the political future of Singapore by building
politicised public institutions that are all geared to preserve the
political survival of ONE Political Party - his OWN.
Has he ever considered the future of creating a neutral political
structure that is strong and professional - above politics; all
combined to become the neutral aribiter that will balance the
forces of the Executive Government, Political Parties in
Parliament, the Judiciary, the Civil Administration, the Law and
Security Enforcers from the Military and the Police ?
Sadly, LKY has presented Singapore with a white blankness that
require Singaporeans to be exposed to perpetual upheavals, to
continuous instability and changes to the lives of Singaporeans -
as much as his Political Party attempt to create a sense of
stability and keeping the situation under control.
His blandness has stifled Singaporean for the last 50 years, and
continue to restrain Singapore's ability to move ahead. He has
regretted the disapproval of having casinos and F-1 races when
these were raised in the 1970s and the 1980s; and Singapore has
little choice in the 21st Century when there are few options left
for his OWN son to be successful as PM.
The blandness of LKY's political insecurity has prevented Singapore
to be more vibrant and enterprising, and has resulted in at least
three generations of Singaporean being moulded into political and
economic digits to serve the MNCs, instead of being developing
politically imaginative, and enterprising economically vibrant
future generational leaders in a Global Economy.
The reason for the need to import foreign talents is primarily due
to the past purposeful policies that have dulled the minds of
Singaporeans, so as to remove the sting of a political active and
awakened population from challenging the supremacy of himself and
his OWN Political Party.
Time has passed and the veins of history and regret of pass missed
opportunities are now surfacing; and it will take another three
generations before a new mindset will form that will create new
generations of leaders naturally from those who have lived here for
generations.
In any case, it is an odd way to wear the Filippino 'Barong Tagalog' tucked into white
trousers.
It shows the blandness in the ability to create a Singapore
national dress for the last 50 years.
