Singapore 2B: April 2023

Saturday 8 April 2023

"Rules Set you Free!"

This is a video interview of a Spanish woman who is living in Singapore:

TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 INTRO 00:49 What does Ana miss in Singapore? 01:20 How to make friends in a new country 02:24 Getting PR after 1 year 04:47 Social circle in Singapore 06:40 Expat Life in Singapore 08:24 Kindness of Singaporeans 09:51 Crazy driving in Singapore 11:37 What foreigners should know about Singapore 15:11 Rules in Singapore 16:34 Europe VS Singapore 18:33 About domestic helpers

Why we resist the ideologues

[From: "The Same old criticism"

There are... liberal democracies where you can have an "Amos Yee" type freedom.

There are also very sad places where there is little freedom or security, and life is very hard.

And there are a few places where there is quite a lot of chaos and life is uncertain.

Then there are very few places where you can be reasonably civilised and have sufficient security and responsible freedom to have a good life.

Singapore is one such Oasis of sensibleness... we are an Oasis of order, competence, efficiency, and reasonableness in an otherwise chaotic unreasonable, incompetent WORLD. Not just the region.

If Singapore becomes a copy of a Western Liberal Democracy with all the inherent inefficiencies, silliness, drama, and chaos, it would be a very sad thing...

If Singapore breaks down and devolves into a corrupt, ineffective, unfocused, shambling chaotic third world country, it would also be a very sad thing.

There is only one place where you can find Singapore's straightforwardness, integrity, efficiency, competence, order... And that is here, in Singapore.

If we lose this, whether because we lean to much to the left, or whether we let ourselves sink into mediocrity through complacency or a sense of destiny, or divine right, it will be gone.

...so that is why we resist the ideologues.

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Saturday 8 April 2023

"Rules Set you Free!"