My Take on the Wee-Wee Fiasco
The next interesting thing was the fiasco about a certain RJC girl and her MP Father which got the local blogsphere agitated. And coupled with the suicide of a non-elite. It exploded into discussions on Elitism, Meritocracy and the Class Disconnect which were expounded by the local writer Catherine Lim many years ago (if my memory can still be trusted lah) and, at then, she was accused of challenging the out-of-bound markers in the 90’s.
Today, this incident shows that this deep rooted problem has blossomed or sunken its roots to affect our youths and particularly the elites in our educational system. What things about our system can be changed to right this growing issue ?
My take is that nothing short of a major political change that starts from the masses can effectively alleviate and arrest this issue. Unless there is a sudden sprouting of more heartland opposition MPs of various parties who can rise to the occasion sincerely and into the parliament to effect wide-sweeping policy changes, there is no other way. Such a scenario is largely impossible as such convictions must come from the masses’ heart but these hearts are currently more pre-occupied with issues of livelihood.
If this problem is not arrested, this red dot will really become a hotel in the near future with the elitist group being the only true patriots around as they would have too much to lose by then.
The first step to this solution would be allow total politcial freedom in the media and, then follow by subsequently, the adjusting of the current barrier to entry for anyone who wants to stand for elections so forth and so on. The current educational system should then undergo a more radical overhaul to arrest the growing diversion of the so called Student Elite and their neighbourhood brothers/sisters.
As long as there is only one main political party around, there isn't much hope except for slow changes that will come too late.
Today, this incident shows that this deep rooted problem has blossomed or sunken its roots to affect our youths and particularly the elites in our educational system. What things about our system can be changed to right this growing issue ?
My take is that nothing short of a major political change that starts from the masses can effectively alleviate and arrest this issue. Unless there is a sudden sprouting of more heartland opposition MPs of various parties who can rise to the occasion sincerely and into the parliament to effect wide-sweeping policy changes, there is no other way. Such a scenario is largely impossible as such convictions must come from the masses’ heart but these hearts are currently more pre-occupied with issues of livelihood.
If this problem is not arrested, this red dot will really become a hotel in the near future with the elitist group being the only true patriots around as they would have too much to lose by then.
The first step to this solution would be allow total politcial freedom in the media and, then follow by subsequently, the adjusting of the current barrier to entry for anyone who wants to stand for elections so forth and so on. The current educational system should then undergo a more radical overhaul to arrest the growing diversion of the so called Student Elite and their neighbourhood brothers/sisters.
As long as there is only one main political party around, there isn't much hope except for slow changes that will come too late.
posted by 逍遥老头 at 7:27 AM
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