Guns Again
Yesterday I finished an article, from a magazine in our healthy stack of National Geographics, about Singapore. It is a model society in terms of security and prosperity, mainly because of the heavy hand of its architect over the past 50 years, Lee Kuan Yew. "He is its inventor, as surely as if he had scientifically formulated the place with precise portions of Plat's Republic, Anglophile elitism, unwavering economic pragmatism, and old-fashioned strong-arm repression."
It is highly regulated, even unfair and anti-human rights in our eyes, yet safe and successful. As they say over there about free and individualistic America, "What good are all those rights if you're afraid to go out at night?" Or to see Batman at midnight.
There must be a spot somewhere these two extremes.
It is highly regulated, even unfair and anti-human rights in our eyes, yet safe and successful. As they say over there about free and individualistic America, "What good are all those rights if you're afraid to go out at night?" Or to see Batman at midnight.
There must be a spot somewhere these two extremes.
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