This incident reminds me that our society is getting more cruel and uncaring by the days. Is it because we have elites who are very uncaring, as reflected by the blog post of Wee Su Min, daughter of Ang Mo Kio GRC MP Wee Siew Kim, in October 2006.

For those who have forgotten or have not read what she wrote, I append it below for your convenience to ponder over (hope TOC will not delete it):

QUOTE:

[ 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.

sad derek attracted more than 50 comments praising him for his poignant views, joining him in a chorus of complaints that climax at the accusation of lack of press freedom because his all-too-true views had been rejected by the straits times forum. while i tend to gripe about how we only have one functioning newspaper too, i think the main reason for its lack of publication was that his incensed diatribe was written in pathetic little scraps that passed off as sentences, with poor spelling and no grammar.

derek, derek, derek darling, how can you expect to have an iron ricebowl or a solid future if you cannot spell?

if you're not good enough, life will kick you in the balls. that's just how things go. there's no point in lambasting the government for making our society one that is, i quote, "far too survival of fittest". it's the same everywhere. yes discrimination exists, and it is sad, but most of the time if people would prefer hiring other people over you, it's because they're better. it's so sad when people like old derek lament the kind of world that singapore will be if we make it so uncertain. go be friggin communist, if uncertainty of success offends you so much - you will certainly be poor and miserable. unless you are an arm-twisting commie bully, which, given your whiny middle-class undereducated penchant, i doubt.

then again, it's easy for me to say. my future isn't certain but i guess right now it's a lot brighter than most people's. derek will read this and brand me as an 18-year old elite, one of the sinners who will inherit the country and run his stock to the gutter. go ahead. the world is about winners and losers. it's only sad when people who could be winners are marginalised and oppressed. is dear derek starving? has dear derek been denied an education? has dear derek been forced into child prostitution? has dear derek had his clan massacred by the government?

i should think not. dear derek is one of many wretched, undermotivated, overassuming leeches in our country, and in this world. one of those who would prefer to be unemployed and wax lyrical about how his myriad talents are being abandoned for the foreigner's, instead of earning a decent, stable living as a sales assistant. it's not even about being a road sweeper. these shitbags don't want anything without "manager" and a name card.

please, get out of my elite uncaring face. ]

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Absolutely uncaring.

I heard that if the top is corrupted and mean spirit, the bottom too right? Why are we having ppl like that, our erm…ministers and MP?

@ Sadden(ed) Citizen

NO IT IS NOT. It’s been 3 years. Find new examples, if any. She was just a girl. Let it go.

Honestly, although I don’t think that that is okay, I don’t think that she truly understands and so it’s (ironically) more a case of … lacking education. Education in the sense of seeing the world, not just math, science, how to write a chinese essay, self assuring version of Singaporean history in “social” studies. Not just how economies and the world works, but how knowing about it can change that. Moral education not in one day trips or feel good projects overseas or erm to get a NYAA award but a genuine desire to work for a cause (to benefit others), no matter how tough it gets.

In the sense of this, I guess, it is a problem from top down.

But regarding this post, I roll my eyes when society at large is targeted. And the *elite* … huh, Sadden(ed) Citizen what was your point by that. Too easy to generalize. I see it as a case of perhaps negligence, that parents missed the ‘warning signs’, failed to support their children (emotionally?). It’s unclear if the notes were found before or after the deaths. If it was before, 8 notes would seem like crying wolf – talk but no action (eh sounds familiar). If it was after, nothing they could do to stop it. Such unfortunate events usually occur at the spur of the moment and if kids want to go their own way, very little we can do.