This article is published in the eighties about LKY about
polygamy and monogamy in singapore .
He
addressed the issue of the dangerously declining birth rate and he
suggested that it was erroneous to follow the West in being
monogamous and a shift has to be made to steer Singapore away from
the disastrous consequences ahead. He recommended polygamy as the
solution, for
correcting the declining birth rate, for dealing with the problem
of the increasing number of unmarried women, for nation building
and more....
The successful, whether
you’re a scholar, a Mandarin or a successful businessman or
successful farmer, you had more than one wife.
In fact you can have as
many as your economic status entitles you or can persuade people to
give their daughters up to you.
In other words, the
unsuccessful are like the weak lions or bucks in a herd, they were
neutralised.
So over the generations
you must have the physically and the mentally more vibrant and
vital, reproduce. We are doing just the
opposite.
We introduced monogamy.
It seems so manifestly correct. The West was successful, superior.
Why? Because they are monogamous.
It was wrong. It was
stupid.
When Mr. Tanaka was
asked in the Japanese Diet five, six years ago "You’ve got another
mistress with children there," he nodded in vehement agreement. He
said, "That’s quite right."
And the more Tanakas
there are in Japan, I have no doubt the more dynamic will be
Japanese society. There was no embarrassment.
But we have worked
ourselves into an awkward position. We’ve got to work ourselves out
of it and your generation has got to do something about
it.
