Ok, no jokes about Soviet and free speech (ok fine, if you haven’t heard the joke, it goes like this:-
“Free speech isn’t dead in the Soviet Union. Only the speakers are.” )
Anyway, I have another quote,
“The government does not dictate how talents are being used, but how they are being defined.”
Anything that can describe the Singapore politcal scene better?
We were brought up on ideals of pragmatism, and we internalized it. To the point we blame it on tyrant fate rather than human interventions that we fail to meet the society’s expectations. But do not forget, who are the ones who dictate that engineers should be the head of our ministries, and who were the ones who dismissed Arts students’ fervour for politics as subversive Marxist behaviours? The same of people want the RIGHT group of young people to be less apathetic to politics, but obviously not all of them. At least not those whose channels of expression differ from theirs.
I guess Singapore is a society where one gets penalised for being creative. A phenomenon clearly affecting everyone, even those as young as 9 years old. Where in school, cookie-cutter essays memorised the night before the exam will be revered by the suckers, whereas innocent creativity will be penalised because of a few mistakes. I guess that is how -o’ mighty ones whom I dare not namedrop further in fear of being exiled- exert their control over all of us. To instill in us and force us to ascribe to however they choose to define talent. And do you know why they hate creativity? It’s a concept hard to grasp, hard to lay down limits for, and hard to control. And of all the various forms, drama is one thing they fear the most.
And I’d have to say, it’s pretty psychopathic. To want to thwart and squash something with such intent, despite growing fear.
Oh, and just in case anyone from the board is reading this; no worries. Like Catherine Lim, I’m just a critic and I am defintely more interested in fashion that politics. No fear of me spreading incendiary messages. My peers are supposedly apathetic, remember? They won’t give two hoots to what I just said. They’re probably more interested in reading about the day-by-day journal of local gay twinks. Or journal of the local crass, crude and condesending alleged celebrity bimbo blogger.
eh, i quite agree with your views but i can’t put them into words like how you do. Lol. And must you suan us when we didn’t do anything?! diao. Just because we don’t discuss doesn’t mean we don’t care! haha. erm at least for me. haha. And i never gave a damn about the gay blog, hahaha..
Ok, then let me take it back. They are more interested in reading the journal of the local crass, crude and condesending alleged celebrity bimbo blogger.