Recently a bunch of professor types got together at a forum to admonish civil servants for not speaking up. “Singapore needs more naysayers,” they said. I can’t help but think of all the people who’ve spoken up over the years only to be told that they said the wrong thing. They get arrested, detained, searched, […]
“The pragmatism to which the national identity refers is one of purposive rational action, one of means-end calculation, one of technology and science. Citizens are admonished to identify with the economic success of the state which demonstrates that the correct policies have been applied. As these policies are not based on an explicitly stated ideology […]
http://www.straitstimes.com/forum/letters-in-print/raise-dsa-bar-to-admit-only-the-naturally-talented ST Forum Letter: Raise DSA bar to admit only the naturally talented from singapore
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-38131731
SPEECH BY MR S RAJARATNAM, SECOND DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER (FOREIGN AFFAIRS) TO THE DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST CLUB AT LECTURE THEATRE ND. 11, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE ON MONDAY, 21 DECEMBER 1981 AT 5.30 PM I take it that your decision to invite me to talk on Soviet policy towards Asia was a carefully considered one. I […]
I watched the video of CSJ’s family, and then his CCK rally speech. It’s really interesting to contrast the two. As a parent, Chee talks about being there for his kids, he talks about spending time together, they play music together, read, go for walks, go swimming. Lots of frugal fun. Very inspiring. Switch to […]
Wake up our ideas – a story about generational trauma. (Compare with Tash Aw’s A Stranger At The Table) Life advice from one redditporean to another (suicidal over low GPA) music what’s wrong with made in Singapore? “When you socially engineer a people to be digits in an economic machine, the creativity “muscle” in our psyche […]
HN HN discussion on PM Lee coding HN ‘Singapore is not right for sivers” HN singapore smart city – SG sociopolitical blogs SAF poison shrimp AMDK 1 2 SG futures how Singaporeans got rich Bilahari’s dealing with an ambiguous world FB creepy Singaporean guys singlish amos yee / pottymouthed teenagers, 1 2 donald low vs calvin […]
How will Singapore cope with a terrorist attack? How can we mitigate the suspicion? How can Singapore remain competitive and relevant 50 years from now? What is the future of Parliament, and what sort of electoral reform should we be looking at? What are the backstories of successful businesses in Singapore, and why do we […]
I think people get very passionate about Great Humans and find it hard to separate their emotional connection with what they have seen with the silent evidence of what they have not seen. At its heart, the great man fallacy is this– we do not know who would have risen to the occasion. Her biography […]