Life lessons learnt from the PAP
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Do not be Freak of Nature
A natural order exists in the world. Democracy processes are part of it. Trying to suppress it, or tweak the system with strange polices and processes will produce what we call freaks of nature. As we now know, These are likely to suffer from problems that are not part of the natural order. Dabbling in ERP, progress packages, education segregation and dividing the class of society wil bring about the problems that we are facing to day. It has been proven true in the natural world where unnatural human intervention had caused mass extinction of plant and animal species, disruptions in ecology and climate.
Do not do unto others what u do not want on yourself
A system of retribution existss in the world. What goes around comes around. Part of the nautral cycle of the world. An age old concept that when u offend or help others, they will do the same in return. The incident where the the MP was doused in fire by a mentally unstable man.
Do not Preach what u dont practice
An important aspect of life. When u preach democracy, do it well. if u want to turn it into a suppressive regime, and preach what u dont practice, people lose the confidence in u. A loss of confidence means the arrival of mistrust and paranoia. Trust is what drives relationships. It has been proven true in the business world.
Do not take things for granted
There will be a time that things will not go as one predicted. Citizens will no longer tolerate the mess that is brought about now due to complacent decisions on investment, unnecessary waste of tax payers monies and the negelct of local conscripts efforts to contribute to national security.One day the citizens will wake up and the question rises - Do u have a contigency plan?
Do not be Selfish
Keep everything with u and u are not safe. Share them with others, the poor and under priviledged and u earn their protection and respect. In life the strongest person is not the one with riches but the one that has earned character.
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Do not have uterior motive in your post
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Life lessons learnt from the PAP
Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
A state cannot be forged by suppressing local culture of the people and imposing alien culture on the people.
When everything is done with money and profit in mind, ultimately the meaning of the state will become worthless.
Man has political, cultural, emotional and intellectual needs, when these are suppressed, man and state become perverted and unstable.
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Originally posted by Ah Chia:
Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
A state cannot be forged by suppressing local culture of the people and imposing alien culture on the people.
When everything is done with money and profit in mind, ultimately the meaning of the state will become worthless.
Man has political, cultural, emotional and intellectual needs, when these are suppressed, man and state become perverted and unstable.
I agree on the power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely~...
But then to be honest, we don't have much of a local culture do we~...
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Originally posted by angel7030:
Do not have uterior motive in your post
the one with ulterior motive is you. -
Originally posted by Ah Chia:
Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
A state cannot be forged by suppressing local culture of the people and imposing alien culture on the people.
When everything is done with money and profit in mind, ultimately the meaning of the state will become worthless.
Man has political, cultural, emotional and intellectual needs, when these are suppressed, man and state become perverted and unstable.
They don't give a damn in the welfare of the people anymore. They will build more roads, expressways because they are money spinners; but forsake the thing of utmost impotant to life : natural water. We have billions to throw and save foreign banks but not to spare a bit to built more reservoirs. Not that there isn't enough space for it but just plain greedy to grab more as recycle water they can charge more. These are not a good clean water.
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But then to be honest, we don't have much of a local culture do we~...
We do.
But suppressed and weakened by PAP regime due to the insecurities of the baba leader.
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Originally posted by Ah Chia:
We do.
But suppressed and weakened by PAP regime due to the insecurities of the baba leader.
LKY and family is Peranakan??? Never knew of it~...
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Originally posted by Fryderyk HPH:
LKY and family is Peranakan??? Never knew of it~...
Not really Peranakan all the way. More of a Indon Chinese origin in Demak, central Jawa.
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They don't give a damn in the welfare of the people anymore.
I think Singapore is now basically a two clas society with elites at the top and the non elites.
We can say that Singapore society has developed into the final stage before the crisis comes.
As this process goes on, you get certain other things. I've hinted at a number of them. One is misplacement of satisfactions. You find your satisfactions--your emotional satisfaction, your social satisfaction-- not in moment to moment relationships with nature or other people, but with power, or with wealth, or even with organized force--sadism, in some cases: Go out and murder a lot of people in a war, a just war, naturally.
The second thing that occurs as this goes on is increasing remoteness of desires from needs. I've mentioned this. The next thing is an increasing confusion between means and ends. The ends are the human needs, but if I asked people what these needs are, they can hardly tell me. Instead they want the means they have been brainwashed to accept, that they think will satisfy their needs. But it's perfectly obvious that the methods that we have been using are not working. Never was any society in human history as rich and as powerful as Western Civilization and the United States, and it is not a happy society. Just this week, I looked at a book called "The Joyless Economy", by an economist, Tibor Scitovsky, who diagrammed some of these things.
In the final aspect of this process, controls on behaviour shift from the intermediate levels of human experience--social, emotional and religious--to the lower, military and political, or to the upper, ideological. They become the externalized controls of a mature society: weapons, bureaucracies, material rewards, or ideology. Customary conformity is replaced by conscious decision-making, and this usually implies a shift from your own conformity to someone else's decision.
In its final stages, the civilization becomes a dualism of almost totalitarian imperial power and an amorphous mass culture of atomized individuals.
http://www.wealthbuilder.ie/essay15.htm
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lesson from PAP. Never place money making as top prority when one is in public service. Want to earn big bucks, go into business
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Originally posted by Ah Chia:
I think Singapore is now basically a two clas society with elites at the top and the non elites.
We can say that Singapore society has developed into the final stage before the crisis comes.
As this process goes on, you get certain other things. I've hinted at a number of them. One is misplacement of satisfactions. You find your satisfactions--your emotional satisfaction, your social satisfaction-- not in moment to moment relationships with nature or other people, but with power, or with wealth, or even with organized force--sadism, in some cases: Go out and murder a lot of people in a war, a just war, naturally.
The second thing that occurs as this goes on is increasing remoteness of desires from needs. I've mentioned this. The next thing is an increasing confusion between means and ends. The ends are the human needs, but if I asked people what these needs are, they can hardly tell me. Instead they want the means they have been brainwashed to accept, that they think will satisfy their needs. But it's perfectly obvious that the methods that we have been using are not working. Never was any society in human history as rich and as powerful as Western Civilization and the United States, and it is not a happy society. Just this week, I looked at a book called "The Joyless Economy", by an economist, Tibor Scitovsky, who diagrammed some of these things.
In the final aspect of this process, controls on behaviour shift from the intermediate levels of human experience--social, emotional and religious--to the lower, military and political, or to the upper, ideological. They become the externalized controls of a mature society: weapons, bureaucracies, material rewards, or ideology. Customary conformity is replaced by conscious decision-making, and this usually implies a shift from your own conformity to someone else's decision.
In its final stages, the civilization becomes a dualism of almost totalitarian imperial power and an amorphous mass culture of atomized individuals.
http://www.wealthbuilder.ie/essay15.htm
I'm just talking of the most basic needs of any life form, natural water, not some castle in the air aspirations. If they can sell you for a dime they will, no love lost!
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Originally posted by Fantagf:
lesson from PAP. Never place money making as top prority when one is in public service. Want to earn big bucks, go into business
Singapore Inc, is a corporate not a country. Human resources are good only if they are productive, or else they are expendable.
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Originally posted by Chew Bakar:
Singapore Inc, is a corporate not a country. Human resources are good only if they are productive, or else they are expendable.
Agreed. Politics is business... Just in a little different way.
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Originally posted by Fryderyk HPH:
Agreed. Politics is business... Just in a little different way.
Yes, business your own money; politics other people money.
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Originally posted by Chew Bakar:
Yes, business your own money; politics other people money.
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LKY and family is Peranakan??? Never knew of it~...
Of course he won't publicise it, he wants to pretend that he is chinese to win chinese votes.
If you go read his memoirs, there is no mention whatsoever that he was raised as Peranakan.
Now you know why he fears the dialects groups so much, why he closed down the chinese schools, why he suppressed dialect in state media, why he imposes alien language on us, why he doesn't care about dialects dying off, why he sees dialects as worthless.
By the way he used the name Harry Lee before he joined politics, after joined politics, change name to LKY.
Which chinese whould vote for ang moh dog?
After all that he has done, he is still nothing but an anglo dog.
Sad.
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Originally posted by Chew Bakar:
Singapore Inc, is a corporate not a country. Human resources are good only if they are productive, or else they are expendable.
Yeah, i suggest PAP has Pte Ltd added to it. ha ha ha -
Originally posted by Fantagf:
Yeah, i suggest PAP has Pte Ltd added to it. ha ha haPhua Ah Pek Pte Ltd.
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Originally posted by Chew Bakar:
Phua Ah Pek Pte Ltd.
why phua ah pek? -
Originally posted by Fantagf:
why phua ah pek?PCK grow old so becomes Phua Ah Pek. Best as PAP and NTUC. Some say CSJ and DAP too.
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Why do you think the despot has a zombie wife... etc etc and is the most cursed family in Singapore...
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Originally posted by Chew Bakar:
PCK grow old so becomes Phua Ah Pek. Best as PAP and NTUC. Some say CSJ and DAP too.
What is DAP? -
Originally posted by AndrewPKYap:
Why do you think the despot has a zombie wife... etc etc and is the most cursed family in Singapore...
andrew, and now the senile dictator walks like zombie. if you have seen him on TV recently, you will have a good laugh like what I did! ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
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if you have seen him on TV recently, you will have a good laugh like what I did!
He should had died a long time ago.
It would be better for everyone.
Live until so old only for people to curse and despise him.
Bastards like him should die, not live.