Sometimes it is kind to be unkind

Someone told me the other day of what happened in a small constituency in Singapore. The Prime Minister and his ruling party members were having a 'meet the people' session.

The audience was predominantly young. When the speaker asked for suggestions on things that should be carried out in their area for their benefit, one of them got up to say, "That is what we, the taxpayers elected you for!".

I do not think this is what the nationalistic part of LKY had in mind when he and his party members set out to develop their trawler parked backwater state after leaving the coalition in 1965 with no natural resources to rely on but only their mental acuity to fall upon to the present first world status.
He must have thought the subjects would be subservient and put him up on a pedestal and forever immortalize him in the journals of Singapore history.

But no!

The product of his transformation feels that his patriarchal interventions are only to be laughed at. Suddenly, the country which groomed them (the product) is not good enough anymore. They cannot wait to fly away from their backyard, which they feel is only fit to be lived by a new wave of new immigrants. They think their freedom is stifled. They fly away to supposedly developed nations which are themselves luring qualified candidates as their own candidates (mostly unqualified ones) were either too intoxicated in the good life to move their sorry bodies to work or are busy serving the underprivileged souls in some underdeveloped despot ruled basket case banana republics after being disillusioned by their own social system!

Isn't it a full circle again?

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