Dear The Real Singapore,
Here are a few reasons why Singaporean sons and daughters ought to take ownership of their country's future:
1. Majority of the lot spend their weekends at overcrowded malls queuing up for food and shopping. Their sense of happiness is derived from the mindset they can be fulfilled when they get the something that have been queuing up for, be food or the entry to an over subscribed playground.
We all know the emptiness feeling that sets in after you hav had your fill and then we proceed to look for another target.
Queuing is not really productive if you ask me, can get frustrating at times, esp with our weather and also the strong blast of uv rays that cuts into many of our glass buildings, designed to look nice but without due consideration for energy needed for cooling and climate change that will ensue.
2. Herd mentality , if everyone is queuing up for sth, it muz be good. Let's take food for example, when the crowd is overwhelmingly huge over the weekends, the chefs are pressurized to deliver. What makes you think they don't cut corners ? Small ones , only a few can tell ..unless you are a chef yourself.
If good food is meant to be savoured, how do you do so in an environment packed with people, kids as babies crying ?to the extent that some eating outlets are putting a ban on children.
3. The more you consume, the more surplus you help our govt generate income to feed their jia Leow bee team of mini sitters who promised you Swiss standard of living. now you know why shopping malls are aplenty here, it makes perfect economic sense while at the same time giving the delusion that we are very well off.
4. We are very fast and efficient and so what ? Yes we can sign up for 1GBps fibre connection plan and have 4G mobile data , fast enough to stream porn anywhere with coverage.
At the end of the day, you asked yourself, do you feel more at peace with all these enhancements in your lives ?
Instead, your heart worries abt the cost of living ..whether you're adequately covered with insurance or is your job secure or you gonna be axes when you reach 40 to hav a mid life crisis.
Don't get me wrong , i also go to malls over the weekend to pamper my family. We can all do that in moderation.
But please, don't leave the critical questions unanswered at the back of your minds. The day will come when answers and solutions will be called upon all , in regardless of their preparedness.
To end off, if we need to dine, we call in adv to make a reservation so we don't have to queue.
True singaporeans, we are not stupid. But intellect, when underutilized, can be worse than stupidity.
Profteddybear
TRS Contributor