podeamMay Sixth draws near
‘Why My Vote Matters’. So many people, so much time, so many questions, so few Questions.
If you don’t care about the way you live your life, the way you have live_ed_ your life, and the way you will live your life, what do you care about?
Political non-apathy isn’t the rah-rah-ring onscreen, and the using of “unlevel playing field” as many times as humanly possible.
If I had a penny for every time I heard that I-you-we need not care about politics, I’d have very many pennies. And just bout as much use, having very many pennies in Singapore.
I’d much rather not have pennies at all.
Teens aren’t fools (well, some of us aren’t, anyway). We are not necessarily unaware. I find it hard to believe amongst us there are people who are unaware of our illustrious minister mentor. Even if for no other reason than Social Studies.
Very much aware, aware of the faults in the system, aware of migration policies, aware of the Grass on the Other Side. Not because it is necessarily Greener, but because it is on the Other Side.
Everyone wants the opposition to win. Just in other constituencies. We like our lifts very much. Those of us who have them, anyway.
We want opposition. Not Opposition, but opposition. Competitive opposition.
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I’ve been asked if I want to enter politics. That if I feel so strongly about governance, I’m on the wrong track.
Sometimes I wonder. But I wouldn’t enter politics, even if only because my being me could possibly detract from what it is I hope to achieve; unless our society changes very drastically, I could end up doing more harm than good.
It is by design that the political scene and the political desires of people here are calculating and unemotional. Expecting people to be any more is unreasonable and unrealistic because they don’t dictate the circumstances.
You seem to have a greater confidence in people power than most.
And you forget the other option – if you really do care about your own future, you work hard and make plenty of money, which offers you the ultimate freedom: the freedom to leave for the greenest pastures. You know, the SM’s daughter lives in London – can’t be too bad, can it?
e | May 3, 10:17 PM | #e: Only problem with ultimate freedom is that I’m a Singapore boy, through and through. I’m stubborn that way: I want what I want, and I want it here.
I want to have a piece of my own pie, not someone else’s.
I can and will expect people to be more because I am more, and – like I said before – I am Singaporean. If it were possible for me, and for so many other Singaporeans, it should be for the majority of Singaporeans.
And c’mon, we’re not unemotional. Ever seen us during the Great Singapore Sale? ;)
Vicnan | May 3, 11:35 PM | #« impressions | Light »