Insight Down South
By SEAH CHIANG NEE
Restive, sophisticated and cynical, the post-65 tech-savvy generation are a sub-culture unto themselves, preferring to engage each other than the government of the day.
YEARS of top-down government has produced a sub-culture among people who interact mostly with each other and pay little interest to what the government says.
It is part of Singapore’s new diverse world, but to the ruling party, which is used to getting things its way, they are like the proverbial lost flock that has wandered afield.
The sub-community, however, doesn’t see itself as society’s outsider, but as part of a new force working with the Internet for social and political change.
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wayangparty said: “The PAP is definitely smarter. Instead of arresting bloggers under the Internal Security Act, it plants moles in cyberspace to have a voice there.”
Read rest of article here:
http://wayangparty.wordpress.com/2008/09/28/lost-flock-seeking-to-have-a-proper-say/
By SEAH CHIANG NEE
Restive, sophisticated and cynical, the post-65 tech-savvy generation are a sub-culture unto themselves, preferring to engage each other than the government of the day.
YEARS of top-down government has produced a sub-culture among people who interact mostly with each other and pay little interest to what the government says.
It is part of Singapore’s new diverse world, but to the ruling party, which is used to getting things its way, they are like the proverbial lost flock that has wandered afield.
The sub-community, however, doesn’t see itself as society’s outsider, but as part of a new force working with the Internet for social and political change.
...............
wayangparty said: “The PAP is definitely smarter. Instead of arresting bloggers under the Internal Security Act, it plants moles in cyberspace to have a voice there.”
Read rest of article here:
http://wayangparty.wordpress.com/2008/09/28/lost-flock-seeking-to-have-a-proper-say/
