People have known for a long time that countries can succeed if they are not democratic. The question is: Can countries continue to succeed if they are not so?
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Singapore continues to remind it’s people of its success. It needs to empower the people to succeed as well.
civilization is not measured in decades but in centuries.
short term success , comparatively, is what it is. Past performance does not necessarily guarantee future performance.
1. no body knows when the next crisis will come and how hard the landing will be.
2. no one knows when the next 911 will come ditto.
given the above, anything is but a guess technically speaking.
nothing is forever.
who would have guessed that USA would be in such a poor state?
so many trillions in debt.
in the past , people thought bank on usa sure no problem.
who is the fool now?
growth at all cost?
how’s that gonna work? I mean i curious to know
Whether with democracy or democrazy, every country has its ups and downs. Economic success is not THE measure of success. The success of a country is measured in terms of the quality of life of the majority of its people. In addition, the happiness level of its people. Though economic success is a contributing factor to the well-being of a country, it should not be the only emphasis. It should not be the end that justifies the means.
The two words “ALL COSTS” encompass every cost that one can or not imagine. It may even cost the lives of many poor Singaporeans who cannot catch up with the rat race. It may also cost life of the party who proposed this!
The “ALL COSTS” may also mean “CHAOS and VIOLENCE”.
It may also cost the existence of the nation as a whole. It may step onto the toes of neighbouring countries and therefore cause animosity, and therefore leads to war, and therefore results in the demise of the little red dot.
Therefore, whoever proposed the “Economic Success At ALL Costs” must be mad or insane!
– “People have known for a long time that countries can succeed if they are not democratic. The question is: Can countries continue to succeed if they are not so? ”
Just my opinion;
- if one’s parents have been showing us by example on how to live, survive, educate ourselves, & care for our homes & family members, when they die & are hence no longer around – do you think we will instantly forget what they have taught us and not succeed in life as such?
Interesting that Singaporeans, especially the elite and the government media, just assume that a powerful China replacing the US as THE global power is good for Singapore, simply because the majority of Singaporeans are of Chinese descent. One gets the impression that they just cannot wait for it to happen.
Where would Singapore be today without the USA and the West?
The assumption that the Chinese (and Asians generally) are the paragons of virtue and the West the cesspool of vice is an interesting one and remains to be tested.
“It may also cost the existence of the nation as a whole. It may step onto the toes of neighbouring countries and therefore cause animosity, and therefore leads to war, and therefore results in the demise of the little red dot.”
Or the little red dot could be bled dry and become bankrupt, die of starvation because of hardworking incompetence.
“It may step onto the toes of neighbouring countries and therefore cause animosity, and therefore leads to war, and therefore results in the demise of the little red dot.”
Reminds me of somebody’s threat to assassinate someone else using SAF commandoes if Singapore’s water supply was cut in the 90s.
“The assumption that the Chinese (and Asians generally) are the paragons of virtue and the West the cesspool of vice is an interesting one and remains to be tested.”
I am pretty sure that only people with mental disorders believe in the above statement. Vice is as old as the human race.
“Interesting that Singaporeans, especially the elite and the government media, just assume that a powerful China replacing the US … One gets the impression that they just cannot wait for it to happen.”
In my opinion, this is not true; an ascendant China will be very harmful to the “elite”‘s interests in the long run.
Does anyone know the difference between ochlocracy and democracy? I don’t.
“powerful China replacing the US”
yah lah, they wait long long lah.
International players will look more at Russia & Japan more. China will just tag along.
China just minds only her own internal people & territory (& they treat Taiwan as their own also). It’s only advantage is their cheap resource, yah la la including their human resources.
“One gets the impression that they just cannot wait for it to happen.”
wait long long. look at their history and you will know what is likely to happen. Talk to the real chinese from china on the ground & be friendly to them and they will tell you how their culture works.
China will not succeed. There will come a time when its citizens will clamour for democracy. All hell will break lose and they will have to start building again.
We have seen something like it here. They promised us a ‘Swiss standard of living’. When they realised that you needed to have democracy together with such a standard of life, they changed their minds. Now they are flooding the country with cheap foreigners so that Singaporeans will have the ‘Somalia standard of living’.
Democracy and economic success go hand in hand. You can have one without the other. China is not even their yet. Stop mentioning it.
12) Citizen of Asia on December 9th, 2009 10.39 am
China will not succeed. There will come a time when its citizens will clamour for democracy. All hell will break lose and they will have to start building again.
We have seen something like it here. They promised us a ‘Swiss standard of living’. When they realised that you needed to have democracy together with such a standard of life, they changed their minds. Now they are flooding the country with cheap foreigners so that Singaporeans will have the ‘Somalia standard of living’.
Democracy and economic success go hand in hand. You can’t have one without the other. China is not even their yet. Stop mentioning it.