well, andrew, in this world, there'll always be supporters and
critics of a system or an organisation. can't be helped.
often, misconceptions are caused by imperfect information or
misrepresentation of facts. what i'm trying to do in this forum is
to try to educate the uninformed out there. yet i wonder if it'll
work.
yes, i must admit that many of the govt propaganda are tailor-made
to look gd. examples include the level of pride in young s'poreans
survey. contrary to the survey result (which i took part in), i can
tell u that a really high portion of young s'poreans got ZERO
pride. i'll bet my last cent that the govt actually realises this,
which is why they're suddenly so "on" about national education.
c'mon, in my younger education days, since when were we so
concerned abt such thing? anyone remembers the "hao gong ming"
textbook? heck.....
the result is an entire generation of young people who simply do
not know anything and takes everything for granted. the famous
s'porean complain culture.
however, when the govt tries some form of propaganda to correct
this, pple just dismiss it as PAP noise.
granted, i'm a govt servant, but i'm not terribly enthusiastic abt
the govt and the bureaucracy. why? the stupidity of what Creative
CEO Sim Woon Hoo calls the "NUTS". No U-Turn Syndrome.
inflexibility and inability to be practical and make
decisions.
many people think that s'pore's useless because we're too small to
be defended. granted, one wholly successful carpet bombing session
will probably destroy the whole of s'pore. so will 100 SSMs.
what the average person in the streets lacks is knowledge about
war. how war is actually fought at the macroscopic level (not just
a man or a platoon or even a company, the WHOLE thing, tri-service
and all). the factors which affect war efforts severely. and of
course, something closer to s'pore's real defence capability.
even after NS (doesn't matter which vocation), it is appalling that
there are still people who think that more guns equates superior
armed forces (assuming they have more guns in the first
place).
i may not succeed, but, without revealing something which will call
MSD down on me, i will still try to prove that we CAN do it.
though i would like to see posts with ideas behind them and proper
arguments, eg LittleMan's You're a Chinese so u better know your
language" thread. that sparked a 100+ post argument. at the end of
the day, they failed to convince each other, but it was done in a
sensible way, with each parties supporting their arguments and
such.
In this thread, all i've seen from skeptics are posts which argue
on basis of false and shallow information, eg. their population is
bigger. So? you expect your grandmas, grandpas, aunties and the
road sweeper to fight?
better arguments please
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