Sunday, December 10, 2006
` 1:51 AM
i read this article in straits times today about Elitism.
Go read INSIGHT S11 of Saturday Straits Times.
Hmm.
What should i say so that i won't get sued for comments that is detrimental to the public?
Ha.
Nah i am not gonna be criticising or promoting elitism in Singapore.Everyone is entitled to their opinions, but i would perhaps suggest if you are free go check out this article. Its so true yet so scary.
"Elite = Elitism concept is wrong in the first place."
this is something i learn from the article. when you are an elite does not make u some one part of this elitism thingy.but it is possible(highly as stated by some) that you become part of it.i thought about this sentence while i was shi**ing. How true it is.
Rough definition: Elite = someone who is academically inclined and outstanding
Elitism = Bred of self centeredness and a sense of condemnation of others
beneath
I thought about the meritocracy here in town and of course it breds elite. but elitism?
Elitism, i guess, is something which is brought into the picture by the society and people, perhaps encouraged by the skewed usage of the system in place. Come on, be frank about it there are some elites who belong to the elitism group. but there are asp those who are as normal as everyone except that they are in the elite positions. Maybe some will say they have these positions because of the disparage treatment that society has preference to them, but be fair to them man, they have their fair share of hardwork,maybe not as much as you and me but they don buy their way through. They work too.
How can you measure hardship?but how much you lost and how much they gain?
Pros and Cons.
i guess i am not the least concern about who is elite and what is elitism.but i am more concern about how this society brands the elites and non elites. Some day, i wish it will nv come, we might find ourselves in the place where we revert to the system of the accepted and outcast of the past. Gosh, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer?Man in the clutches of its own wisdom?i am worried.
come on man i am jus 21 why should i be worried?
well i am not being political here(i am least interested in it) nor am i trying to justify certain idealogy.
but hey man.
if one day you are the upper class of the system, what WOULD you do?
or
you are the outcast, what CAN you do?
Are you gonna be a Singaporean or be a outcast/elite Singaporean?
the truth is i dunno whats my choice my fren.
its scaring the freak out of me when one day i cant talk to any of my frens because i am not the same class as them.
what the hell is happening man?
*i just got the urge to blog about this....
~Mr Jen has spoken.