May 14, 2006

Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble

Nicholas Carlton made a documentary titled "Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble" about the ban of chewing gum in Singapore.

Does government control produce a utopian society or an opressed people?

This fast-paced, music video style documentary explores this through the chewing gum ban in Singapore.

Link

Submitted by lancerlord on May 14//3:58pm and published by Agagooga, LMD :: 6081 reads | trackback (1)
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Taking your comparison with Japan... civil liberties there are paradoxically more open and less open at the same time. Less rules perhaps but definitely more social pressure on conformism. But Japan is really home of many perversities as well.

Personal freedom has to balance with social freedom. A mark of a great person is someone who can accomodate different sets of viewpoints, so the mark of a great society is probably one where they can walk the line between the two.

Posted by Anonymous Coward*** on 14 May, 2006 - 10:04pm