Sammyboy RSS Feed
23-07-2015, 12:00 AM
An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:
POSTED BY EXPOSINGSINGAPORE ⋅ JULY 21, 2015
When you have a country whose leader feels threatened by the ranting of a 16 year-old boy on the internet and who uses physical intimidation, psychological abuse that includes defamation of character by made-up mental illness, and misuses the name of Christianity to charge a minor in a subservient court you know that all these measures are taken in a prevailing deep sense of insecurity and low self-esteem on the part of such leader.
When a regime can be so threatened by an online ranting of a child who is a nobody or by forwarded pertinent questions that would otherwise make all sense in a thinking society, you know that such a regime is not in a position of strength. Paranoid reaction to criticism and differing view signifies a deep seated insecurity and fundamental flaw in a political regime. It simply states that the prevailing system cannot compete under liberal exchange of ideas which is to say that the system is deeply flawed or undefendable.
Term such as ‘Benevolent Dictatorship’ which implies a conscious attempt to redeem what would otherwise be an unjustifiable notion typically correlated with dictatorship denotes an awareness that the system is irredeemable. To a thinking person, such term doesn’t make any sense. It is akin to saying a bright dark room or a kind demon. To a thinking person, the attempt to add the word ‘benevolent’ raises the awareness that dictatorship is an intolerable notion thus the need to redeem the notion by adding the preceding word. Adding the word ‘benevolent’ doesn’t make any dictatorship less evil or less wrong. Furthermore, the attempt to propagate the notion of a meritocratic system in itself doesn’t make any sense. A genuinely meritocratic system doesn’t need to tell people that it is. French government officials would never utter the word that their state is one which is based on meritocracy because there’s no need to tell its people what they clearly have understood. The very need to claim meritocracy such as what Singapore and China are doing raises serious questions on the notion. It implies that meritocracy had not been the prevailing practice prior to the claim. Meritocracy is not practiced to score political points with the people after all. It is taken as one of fundamental requirements in a modern society along with personal liberty and independent rule of law. In the case of Singapore and China, I presume their meritocracy is subject to conditions and special circumstances. Dissidents are certainly excluded from their meritocratic system and perhaps a few other kinds of people as well. Meritocratic societies don’t go telling the people of their meritocratic practice. The very need to assure the people of meritocracy implies questionable confidence of the claim itself.
Nationhood is founded as a collective aggregation of societies in light of the understanding that the founding would bring increased chance of survival for its members. It is not founded to serve a minority of people exclusively at the detriment of the majority. In authoritarian regimes however this social contract is always made void. Instead of order brought about by fair, just, and nurturing system of governance, fear becomes the overriding factor that keeps the social fabric intact. As fear tends to diminish with time, the need for regular actions of oppressive nature becomes inevitable. Thus, order becomes a precarious dance of controlled chaos brought about by the systemic and limited scope nature of its government’s corrupt practice and abuse of power. As more people imitate this practice however, the nation descends from its controlled chaos/decadent state to a widespread chaos/decadent state before eventually disbanding itself, or rather, imploding on itself, in a spiral descend toward an every-man-for-himself anarchy/decadence.
The tradeoff that the Singapore’s dictatorial regime demands, economic progress and prosperity for personal liberty and political quiescence, with time, seems to be getting more irrelevant and harder to justify. As China’s economy is faced with almost insurmountable looming problems in near future, it is going to be very hard for Singapore to keep insisting on its [not-so] unique model. China and Singapore share much more in common than you would think. Both believe that democracy vis-a-vis independent rule of law and sustainable economic growth are mutually exclusive. When China’s economy comes crashing down due to mismanagement or the lack of political will to reform its political and economic model, it will be an interesting time to see how the Singapore government would choose to continue down the path that China emulates from its own model. Dictatorial rule will only carry you so far after all.
To both Roy Ngerng and Amos Yee, I recommend both of you to quickly seek asylum abroad. Once marked so to speak by this vindictive and preposterous regime, you will be denied fair and equal opportunity in every single of your life endeavor. Make every effort to escape Singapore and obtain freedom. You do not need to respect the perverse justice system that’s installed in Singapore. The sooner you are free from the clutches of this regime, the better it will be for your future well being. Live long and prosper!
https://exposingsingapore.wordpress....-not-strength/ (https://exposingsingapore.wordpress.com/2015/07/21/authoritarianism-signifies-a-position-of-weakness-not-strength/)
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://www.singsupplies.com/showthread.php?210947-Authoritarianism-signifies-a-position-of-weakness-not-strength&goto=newpost).
POSTED BY EXPOSINGSINGAPORE ⋅ JULY 21, 2015
When you have a country whose leader feels threatened by the ranting of a 16 year-old boy on the internet and who uses physical intimidation, psychological abuse that includes defamation of character by made-up mental illness, and misuses the name of Christianity to charge a minor in a subservient court you know that all these measures are taken in a prevailing deep sense of insecurity and low self-esteem on the part of such leader.
When a regime can be so threatened by an online ranting of a child who is a nobody or by forwarded pertinent questions that would otherwise make all sense in a thinking society, you know that such a regime is not in a position of strength. Paranoid reaction to criticism and differing view signifies a deep seated insecurity and fundamental flaw in a political regime. It simply states that the prevailing system cannot compete under liberal exchange of ideas which is to say that the system is deeply flawed or undefendable.
Term such as ‘Benevolent Dictatorship’ which implies a conscious attempt to redeem what would otherwise be an unjustifiable notion typically correlated with dictatorship denotes an awareness that the system is irredeemable. To a thinking person, such term doesn’t make any sense. It is akin to saying a bright dark room or a kind demon. To a thinking person, the attempt to add the word ‘benevolent’ raises the awareness that dictatorship is an intolerable notion thus the need to redeem the notion by adding the preceding word. Adding the word ‘benevolent’ doesn’t make any dictatorship less evil or less wrong. Furthermore, the attempt to propagate the notion of a meritocratic system in itself doesn’t make any sense. A genuinely meritocratic system doesn’t need to tell people that it is. French government officials would never utter the word that their state is one which is based on meritocracy because there’s no need to tell its people what they clearly have understood. The very need to claim meritocracy such as what Singapore and China are doing raises serious questions on the notion. It implies that meritocracy had not been the prevailing practice prior to the claim. Meritocracy is not practiced to score political points with the people after all. It is taken as one of fundamental requirements in a modern society along with personal liberty and independent rule of law. In the case of Singapore and China, I presume their meritocracy is subject to conditions and special circumstances. Dissidents are certainly excluded from their meritocratic system and perhaps a few other kinds of people as well. Meritocratic societies don’t go telling the people of their meritocratic practice. The very need to assure the people of meritocracy implies questionable confidence of the claim itself.
Nationhood is founded as a collective aggregation of societies in light of the understanding that the founding would bring increased chance of survival for its members. It is not founded to serve a minority of people exclusively at the detriment of the majority. In authoritarian regimes however this social contract is always made void. Instead of order brought about by fair, just, and nurturing system of governance, fear becomes the overriding factor that keeps the social fabric intact. As fear tends to diminish with time, the need for regular actions of oppressive nature becomes inevitable. Thus, order becomes a precarious dance of controlled chaos brought about by the systemic and limited scope nature of its government’s corrupt practice and abuse of power. As more people imitate this practice however, the nation descends from its controlled chaos/decadent state to a widespread chaos/decadent state before eventually disbanding itself, or rather, imploding on itself, in a spiral descend toward an every-man-for-himself anarchy/decadence.
The tradeoff that the Singapore’s dictatorial regime demands, economic progress and prosperity for personal liberty and political quiescence, with time, seems to be getting more irrelevant and harder to justify. As China’s economy is faced with almost insurmountable looming problems in near future, it is going to be very hard for Singapore to keep insisting on its [not-so] unique model. China and Singapore share much more in common than you would think. Both believe that democracy vis-a-vis independent rule of law and sustainable economic growth are mutually exclusive. When China’s economy comes crashing down due to mismanagement or the lack of political will to reform its political and economic model, it will be an interesting time to see how the Singapore government would choose to continue down the path that China emulates from its own model. Dictatorial rule will only carry you so far after all.
To both Roy Ngerng and Amos Yee, I recommend both of you to quickly seek asylum abroad. Once marked so to speak by this vindictive and preposterous regime, you will be denied fair and equal opportunity in every single of your life endeavor. Make every effort to escape Singapore and obtain freedom. You do not need to respect the perverse justice system that’s installed in Singapore. The sooner you are free from the clutches of this regime, the better it will be for your future well being. Live long and prosper!
https://exposingsingapore.wordpress....-not-strength/ (https://exposingsingapore.wordpress.com/2015/07/21/authoritarianism-signifies-a-position-of-weakness-not-strength/)
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://www.singsupplies.com/showthread.php?210947-Authoritarianism-signifies-a-position-of-weakness-not-strength&goto=newpost).