Following the Pap is the safe choice. The formula is simple, study hard, go uni, get a desk job, get married, buy a hdb, buy a car, have 1.2 children, climb your way up to 10k per month by end of career, upgrade to a condo, retire, draw on cpf monies, raise grandchildren, and then die.
With your whole life mapped out for you, why bother thinking and carving out your own path? The Pap way guarantees your household a chance of achieving the median income. Depending on your luck, you could cruise by life without thinking much and make it to the 40th to 80th percentile (by HH income.)
When the Pap inevtiably fails to deliver the promised life to the people, the people will finally wake up. By then it's too late for both them and the country. Imagine the rot that must have had set in by the time the pap hits that point of failure.
I can only pray that our public institutions are strong and robust enough to hold the country together when the Pap eventually fails as a political party.
We are all victims of probability and the inevitability of change. But for now, what alternative is there to the Pap? Where is our Donald Trump?