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The taiwanese scene of politics is keeping me entertained these days.
Though of course he said that i am not interested in politics, meaning i don't know as much as him, and thus should not comment on it, i've decide that if i think i am entertained and concerned, i am. It's a democratic society and we have our individual agency, or so they say.
In all honesty i do not know the developments of the entire issue, and i do not know the buildup, the hidden undercurrents all that well. Maybe he does, maybe he doesn't.
But the point that moved me was the fact that citizens were mobilized, and people actually bothered to give up their comfortable routines for sitting in the streets and strikes that could very well yield limited results.
It moves me simply because in Singapore apathy rules at the end of the day. Maybe it is for the fear of getting into trouble, maybe it is a case of house-training done well, or maybe, the energies have been way too successfully channelled into the race for material.
Reading media law cases and reports about us leave me feeling embarrassed.
How can we, so arguably developed in so many ways be so malnutritioned in others? It's almost like our country can be simply personified into a muscular bloke with seriously nothing up there in his brain.
Sometimes developing too fast and too "well" can have its drawbacks, and i swear i am beginning to see more and more of them.
Though of course he said that i am not interested in politics, meaning i don't know as much as him, and thus should not comment on it, i've decide that if i think i am entertained and concerned, i am. It's a democratic society and we have our individual agency, or so they say.
In all honesty i do not know the developments of the entire issue, and i do not know the buildup, the hidden undercurrents all that well. Maybe he does, maybe he doesn't.
But the point that moved me was the fact that citizens were mobilized, and people actually bothered to give up their comfortable routines for sitting in the streets and strikes that could very well yield limited results.
It moves me simply because in Singapore apathy rules at the end of the day. Maybe it is for the fear of getting into trouble, maybe it is a case of house-training done well, or maybe, the energies have been way too successfully channelled into the race for material.
Reading media law cases and reports about us leave me feeling embarrassed.
How can we, so arguably developed in so many ways be so malnutritioned in others? It's almost like our country can be simply personified into a muscular bloke with seriously nothing up there in his brain.
Sometimes developing too fast and too "well" can have its drawbacks, and i swear i am beginning to see more and more of them.