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Abstracts of essays; news; announcements; short takes.
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- Yawning Bread Sampler
- This blog carries summary abstracts of Yawning Bread essays, with space for comments.
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- Singapore government promotes obscenity
- Compensating for a frustrating neighbourhood
- Bye bye, musical fountain
- Don't infect the state with religion
- Life in construction
- The good ol' days of jail and caning for immorality
- Will ours be an overcrowded city?
- Sandstorm masks politics of diversion
- Criminalise lesbianism, say Church leaders
- Forgotten markers of history
- Race, religion and the sinicisation of Singlish
- Gays should support censorship, says Andy Ho
- Incredible wife makes disappearing act
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where we're doing our best to out-prude the victorian english in law and morality, we're also doing our best to out-individualize(1) the Americans in building our society.
Why do copy-cats end up trying to out-do their models blindly without considering the actual effects? Are such a low self-esteemed society that all we can think of is outperforming in the metrics used, without considering its implications?
E.o.M.
(1) - meritocracy as it is used in SG, is the elevation of the individual to a loftier strata in society. As charged, it almost always leads to a sense of elitism and entitlement - that then leads to dehumanization of those below the said individual, thus leading to a unkinder, more frictioned society that is so rough.
[yes, we really cannot comprehend another person's reality, much less live in it. The only thing we can do is empathize, and not make their life more difficult by being obtuse, stubborn, and rude in situations where we may be in the wrong.]
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