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http://forums.fuckwarezone.com.sg/images/icons/icon3.gif My Fellow Singaporeans : Your Future,Meritocracy & Singapore
<HR SIZE=1 itxtvisited="1"><!-- / icon and title --><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=2 width="100%" border=0 itxtvisited="1"><COLGROUP itxtvisited="1"><COL width=* itxtvisited="1"><TBODY itxtvisited="1"><TR itxtvisited="1"><TD vAlign=top itxtvisited="1"><!-- message --><!-- 17 -->The word Meritocracy was coined 50 years ago,by British sociologist and Labour Party bigwig Michael Young.He did so to mock the idea of a society run purely on merit.
Young invented the term in his satirical work – The Rise Of The Meritocracy,1870 – 2033 : An Essay On Education And Equality.
A sociological fantasy,the slim book portrays a sinister,highly stratified society organised around intelligence-testing and intensive educational selection.A system of rigid tests determines one’s social standing,with those scoring highest filling the most important positions and reaping the most rewards.As a result,a strict hierarchy of merit is created and maintained.
Over time,however,what appears to be a fair and just system becomes rigid and ruthless.By 2033,Britain has become to be governend by a brilliant elite of 5 percent of the population,who feel their social inferiors are also inferior in education and intelligence.The test-based education system,it turns out,is simply the centuries-old class system in sheep’s clothing.
Lacking access to the best schools,underpriviledged children routinely do badly in examinations.The disadvantaged thus remain at the bottom of the social ladder,unable to break out of the poverty trap.
This outcome leads to widespread grievances and uprisings against an elite that feels superior to,and regards with contempt,all those outside it.
Singapore’s meritocractic system has been practised so extremely that it is starting to show signs of becoming a victim of its own success.
As the economic and political elite are rewarded with larger prizes,a vast and visible inequality of outcomes will replace the incentive effect with a sense of resentment,helplessness,social disengagement,and even envy among those who perceive themselves as systematically disadvantaged.
While 80% of people live in HDB flats,only some 47% of Public Service Commission scholarship recipients this year do.27% are in private,non-landed property , and the other 26% live in landed property.And then of course,there are the foreigner new citizens,the dual citizenship holders and PRs.
Why is there such a discrepancy?
Under the current system,ordinary Singaporeans will continue to be pegged down under the 5% rich elite minority.And then again there are the foreigner new citizens.
Are you,the ordinary Singaporean,that much different from your parents?
The fact is,you are just a upgraded,version2.0 of your parents.Essentially,you are the same drone,the same bot,the same donkey that will be made to work hard for low wages,in order to enrichen these rich,elite capitalist + communist = meritocratists.
Do you want to end up like your parents?
Were your parents able to cash out their CPF and retire?
No,their CPF has been locked up and they are told they have to continue slogging on.Ah,the joys of labour,of contributing to the Greater Good,of Animal Farm.All Hail The Great Leeder.
When your time comes and you grow old,what will your future be?
You have a choice.
You decide your own future.
Your decision at the polls,will determine your own future.
You make the choice for yourself.
One Man,One Vote.
Vote For Your Own Future.
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http://forums.fuckwarezone.com.sg/images/icons/icon3.gif My Fellow Singaporeans : Your Future,Meritocracy & Singapore
<HR SIZE=1 itxtvisited="1"><!-- / icon and title --><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=2 width="100%" border=0 itxtvisited="1"><COLGROUP itxtvisited="1"><COL width=* itxtvisited="1"><TBODY itxtvisited="1"><TR itxtvisited="1"><TD vAlign=top itxtvisited="1"><!-- message --><!-- 17 -->The word Meritocracy was coined 50 years ago,by British sociologist and Labour Party bigwig Michael Young.He did so to mock the idea of a society run purely on merit.
Young invented the term in his satirical work – The Rise Of The Meritocracy,1870 – 2033 : An Essay On Education And Equality.
A sociological fantasy,the slim book portrays a sinister,highly stratified society organised around intelligence-testing and intensive educational selection.A system of rigid tests determines one’s social standing,with those scoring highest filling the most important positions and reaping the most rewards.As a result,a strict hierarchy of merit is created and maintained.
Over time,however,what appears to be a fair and just system becomes rigid and ruthless.By 2033,Britain has become to be governend by a brilliant elite of 5 percent of the population,who feel their social inferiors are also inferior in education and intelligence.The test-based education system,it turns out,is simply the centuries-old class system in sheep’s clothing.
Lacking access to the best schools,underpriviledged children routinely do badly in examinations.The disadvantaged thus remain at the bottom of the social ladder,unable to break out of the poverty trap.
This outcome leads to widespread grievances and uprisings against an elite that feels superior to,and regards with contempt,all those outside it.
Singapore’s meritocractic system has been practised so extremely that it is starting to show signs of becoming a victim of its own success.
As the economic and political elite are rewarded with larger prizes,a vast and visible inequality of outcomes will replace the incentive effect with a sense of resentment,helplessness,social disengagement,and even envy among those who perceive themselves as systematically disadvantaged.
While 80% of people live in HDB flats,only some 47% of Public Service Commission scholarship recipients this year do.27% are in private,non-landed property , and the other 26% live in landed property.And then of course,there are the foreigner new citizens,the dual citizenship holders and PRs.
Why is there such a discrepancy?
Under the current system,ordinary Singaporeans will continue to be pegged down under the 5% rich elite minority.And then again there are the foreigner new citizens.
Are you,the ordinary Singaporean,that much different from your parents?
The fact is,you are just a upgraded,version2.0 of your parents.Essentially,you are the same drone,the same bot,the same donkey that will be made to work hard for low wages,in order to enrichen these rich,elite capitalist + communist = meritocratists.
Do you want to end up like your parents?
Were your parents able to cash out their CPF and retire?
No,their CPF has been locked up and they are told they have to continue slogging on.Ah,the joys of labour,of contributing to the Greater Good,of Animal Farm.All Hail The Great Leeder.
When your time comes and you grow old,what will your future be?
You have a choice.
You decide your own future.
Your decision at the polls,will determine your own future.
You make the choice for yourself.
One Man,One Vote.
Vote For Your Own Future.
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