mature society ?
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Are we mature as a collective society to be a more democratic and free society?
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Singapore is a depoliticised society.
Mainstream media is state propaganda.
Civil society is weak.
People's knowledge of political affairs is very low.
The Singapore state power is highly centralised and political activity is tightly controlled.
So, I say no, Singapore is not a mature society.
I don't think that is PAP regime's intent for singaporeans to be politically mature.
What they want is for people to kowtow to their dictate.
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Singapore, a mature socitety? Ha ha ha ha ha ha........
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I think the current environment in Singapore encourages maturity to a certain level. However, in line with the examples Poh has given, there is a point at which our maturity stops developing.
I can understand the rational behind the government's policy, I can also see the effects, some of them probably unintended, of the Government's policy.
I wish I had an alternative to put forward but I don't. I think passing laws to govern internet publications is the wrong way to go. It's actually a pretty good alternative global media and allows discussion.
Instead of regulating it, the government may have their own websites that reach out to people. Conduct polls, get feedback, invite suggestions, post FAQs on policies, clear up any rumors, etc. Having to answer intelligent questions intelligently helps make one more intelligent.
Obama is thinking of using the internet to reach out to Americans so maybe we can develop a system here that becomes used in other countries. We have the advantage of being smaller, good infrastructure already set up and an educated populace with internet access.
Who's to say we can't create the first model of a web based government? If we succeeded, we'd become consultants to the world.
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no no.
even civil servants like teachers are immature.
can you believe that being fat is being despised by teachers? i seriously thought even if im really fat, i can still contribute to the society, instead of being deemed as useless and a waste of resources