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Associate Professor Kenneth Paul Tan perceives the PAP to have become "decadent" and reached the "zenith" or pinnacle of its governance, and thus, "utterly exhausted" by its achievements
“And this exhaustion points above all to an absence to originality, of new and exciting ideas; the absence of which means it’s very difficult to galvanise and to motivate Singaporeans for the future.”
“So the PAP government seems instead to be self-referentially tethered to its own history.” The giants of its own past have infantilised the party, he said.
A/Prof Tan added: “I look at elections and certainly GE2020 not as the cause of change, certainly not the cause of political change in Singapore, but I see them as a reflection of a state of decline, the decline of a larger system and the PAP at the heart of this system.”
Mr Tan will be taking up a tenured professorship at the Hong Kong Baptist University beginning Jan 2021. The webinar he featured in included other speakers such as Associate Professor Michael Barr from Flinders University, Associate Professor Terence Lee from Murdoch University and Professor Lily Zubaidah Rahim from Monash University. The event was co-hosted by the Malaysia and Singapore Society of Australia (MASSA) and published on Sept 11.
Watch the full excerpt below:
https://theindependent.sg/watershed...-shares-nus-academics-observations-about-pap/
“And this exhaustion points above all to an absence to originality, of new and exciting ideas; the absence of which means it’s very difficult to galvanise and to motivate Singaporeans for the future.”
“So the PAP government seems instead to be self-referentially tethered to its own history.” The giants of its own past have infantilised the party, he said.
A/Prof Tan added: “I look at elections and certainly GE2020 not as the cause of change, certainly not the cause of political change in Singapore, but I see them as a reflection of a state of decline, the decline of a larger system and the PAP at the heart of this system.”
Mr Tan will be taking up a tenured professorship at the Hong Kong Baptist University beginning Jan 2021. The webinar he featured in included other speakers such as Associate Professor Michael Barr from Flinders University, Associate Professor Terence Lee from Murdoch University and Professor Lily Zubaidah Rahim from Monash University. The event was co-hosted by the Malaysia and Singapore Society of Australia (MASSA) and published on Sept 11.
Watch the full excerpt below:
https://theindependent.sg/watershed...-shares-nus-academics-observations-about-pap/
