There was once at experiment made with mice - to observe
behaviorial changes in two different settings - one in a loose and
spacious setting, where a small group of mice is given enough space
to grow, with another group of mice being jam-packed into a smaller
space disproportionate to its numbers.
Without any surprise, in the jam-packed space - we had mice which
displayed accentuated signs of aggressiveness, intolerance, chronic
behaviour; while those other mice with sufficient space to grow
were more playful, attentive, alert to changes, and more sociable
to new mice entering its midst.
Over the last thirty years, HDB flats seems to be shrinking in
floor area built on taller block of flats, and with each block
being built closer to the neigboring block.
Senkang 21 has made this concept even more accentuated, with the
most expensive blocks being even smaller than the previous designs
termed as HDB Executive Flat, or even the 5-Room Maisonettes; and
yet these Senkang 21 flats are sold at even higher prices.
Has the Ministry of National Development - and the Government -
over paranoid in declaring a shortage of land, when its only
purpose is to generate higher revenues through sale from the land
banks, by releasing land parcels at high reserve prices to private
developers ?
This has been done at the expense of the mental health to
Singaporeans, and should we be surprise by the higher rate of
suicides, mental breakdowns, spike in patients admitted to the
Mental Institute, road rage and social and cultural intolerance
towards others ?
How else can we prove this increase in social and mental health
problems except by referring to the experiments with those mice
?
