This post is going to make some quarters very happy and appreciative, those Sinkies that think they are very clever and meritocratic and are better than the FTs. This group has no interest in the less able Sinkies that would be run down into the gutters. They have very low tolerance for the less clever Sinkies. They will thump their chests and shout, ‘Bring in the FTs!’ The other group will be the FTs here and many on the way. They will be beaming and grinning at the stupidity of this suggestion but will appreciate how it will favour them. Paradise is beckoning.
Meritocracy is really good. We can have the best of the world to make this a most prosperous piece of real estate in the world. There is no room for mediocrity and no need for bleeding hearts. It is like the law of the jungle, Darwin’s Theory of Evolution, where Nature demands only the fittest to survive. Good genes are needed for the survival of the human race. The less able, the NGs, should be abandoned, culled if necessary, citizenship is no protection in pure meritocracy, regardless of everything, including nationality.
The final outcome, a city of the best and brightest and richest, a human paradise! But the island cannot just have the best and very best. The dirty work, the manual work, the service workers to service the rich and cleverest must be around to serve. Only the middle group, the neither good nor bad ie the average Sinkie or middle class, will not be able to find any meaningful existence in such a meritocratic city. You are either the best, to be served, or the lowest life form in the pecking order, to serve.
Shall this be something to look forward to? A city of two classes, the super rich and the lowest manual workers and service providers, and both are foreigners.
Chua Chin Leng AKA RedBean
*The writer blogs at http://mysingaporenews.blogspot.com/