love and government
Shakespeare wrote “but love is blind and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit”
And I say thank God for that. Love requires some suspension of rationality cause we are all flawed creatures, prone to all the insecurities, selfishness and mercenary instincts that come from being human. So it’s a good thing that love shuts our eyes to all these cause it wouldn’t exist otherwise.
On the other hand being blinded by lust is a different matter. Haha those follies are in a different category all together and usually a lot less pretty.
On a different note, I read with some interest the excerpts from MM dialogue session at St James. Quite an unlikely setting, I have this bizarre image in my head of him dancing topless, amidst the flashing lights and bursting confetti while shaking his hips as the DJ plays “one night only” … hmmm gross.
Haha but yeah, I must say that the PAP old guard had spunk, and the willingness to change and adapt… led by secular logic that while not the most forgiving and occasionally misguided, took a fair amount of guts and was generally rational. The early days of independence, was a great winnowing process that saw real leaders emerge. The new candidates seem to be incapable of much more than formulaic opinions… feel the need to endear themselves by cracking Bad singlish jokes and are sadly rather conservative. High pay may be able to buy good administrators but leaders and visionaries are cut from a different cloth.
And I say thank God for that. Love requires some suspension of rationality cause we are all flawed creatures, prone to all the insecurities, selfishness and mercenary instincts that come from being human. So it’s a good thing that love shuts our eyes to all these cause it wouldn’t exist otherwise.
On the other hand being blinded by lust is a different matter. Haha those follies are in a different category all together and usually a lot less pretty.
On a different note, I read with some interest the excerpts from MM dialogue session at St James. Quite an unlikely setting, I have this bizarre image in my head of him dancing topless, amidst the flashing lights and bursting confetti while shaking his hips as the DJ plays “one night only” … hmmm gross.
Haha but yeah, I must say that the PAP old guard had spunk, and the willingness to change and adapt… led by secular logic that while not the most forgiving and occasionally misguided, took a fair amount of guts and was generally rational. The early days of independence, was a great winnowing process that saw real leaders emerge. The new candidates seem to be incapable of much more than formulaic opinions… feel the need to endear themselves by cracking Bad singlish jokes and are sadly rather conservative. High pay may be able to buy good administrators but leaders and visionaries are cut from a different cloth.