October 20, 2006

Please, get out of my elite uncaring face.

Wee Shu-min said:

mom's friend sent her some blog post by some bleeding stupid 40-year old singaporean called derek wee (WHY do all the idiots have my surname why?!) whining about how singapore is such an insecure place, how old ppl (ie, 40 and above) fear for their jobs, how the pool of foreign "talent" (dismissively chucked between inverted commas) is really a tsunami that will consume us all (no actually he didn't say that, he probably said Fouren Talern Bery Bad.), how the reason why no one wants kids is that they're a liability in this world of fragile ricebowls, how the government really needs to save us from inevitable doom but they aren't because they are stick-shoved-up-ass elites who have no idea how the world works, yadayadayadayada.

i am inclined - too much, perhaps - to dismiss such people as crackpots. stupid crackpots. the sadder class. too often singaporeans - both the neighborhood poor and the red-taloned socialites - kid themselves into believing that our society, like most others, is compartmentalized by breeding. ridiculous. we are a tyranny of the capable and the clever, and the only other class is the complement.

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Welcome to my country, where people over 40 or even over 70 can choose to work 'til they choose to retire without being discriminated..Singapore indeed is an insecure state, where the security of her people depends on how good the current government and a sudden decline in qualtiy of governance will just fold like the Rea Sea (or what was the name of that sea that folded down on the Egyptians?, too old to remember but still gainfully employed in this true north) and that's is why it will remain an "authoritarian" little city state forever just to maintain her elitist status. I pity you guys....

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