There is nothing wrong with being less politically motivated. What do you want from 'soul'? Endless demonstrations? Quarrels? Singaporeans are no less intelligent than other people, and have chosen to vent in more quiet manners, like here.
when the country lacks of soul, it lacks the passion to promote stronger bonding amongst her peoples, it lacks the passion to promote care and concern for her peoples, and it lacks the passion to push itself into higher grounds. you've seen how folks are streaming out? you've seen how many other folks are streaming in? no matter how you look at it, if this is the way things are going to be, Singapore will always be a state of migrants, fresh migrants and more migrants...
the constant flux will make it hard for a national identity to take shape, and her Government will constantly have to battle issues raised from the new migrants and the retention of her natives. i'm not advocating hardcore nationalism like how the Nazis did, but at least a decent sense of belonging to the homeland, at least a longing to live and perhaps die in the place of birth.
our ancestors gave up the nomadic culture and banded together, it proves to show that unity is strength, and truly advantageous in bringing the civilization to a higher level of competency. no doubt technology has given us plenty of opportunity to settle where ever we want to, whenever we want to. but is that how we truly want it? is it the only way we've learned to live it?
can Singapore truly sustain herself by replenishing herself with more migrants and more migrants as more and more of her natives find themselves moving out? sounds more like a hotel than a nation, if you'd asked me. some would had even mistaken it to be a corporation. i would be proud to be a Citizen of a Nation, but i wouldn't be proud to be a tenant of a hotel or just an employee of a company.