I used to agree when I was little.
Now I know the GDP is not mine to defend at all. What the People
own are, well, their own to defend or move out of the country, and
what's left belongs not to the People but to the powers that be in
this country. GDP is their exercise in vainglory. If they think I
will stake my life defending their untold wealth and this
megaproject which they are loath to give their own sons to defend,
they're mistaken. I'm already half not Singaporean and soon I won't
be.
if there is a war, there won't be any GDP to talk about,
especially for a country like Singapore. There will always be a
power at the top of any country, so if you don't like the power,
and not enough people agree with you to change them, or we don't
know a better way, you change your country. but in the end, what is
the choice? is it about changing for the better, or "enough of
this, anything else doesn't matter"?
GDP doesn't indicate the maturity of a country, it is the will
of the people to live together, to make changes together, and
together we defend our way of life. We make do with an
unsatisfactory government and we accept some stupid oppositions
like the SDP. No country is perfect.
