[h=2]Daniel PS Goh[/h]
No lah, not sucker punched. But I know what Martino Tan is implying because I was damn proud of Singapore listening to DPM Tharman at St Gallen. Hell yeah, give it to them Singapore bashers of the old imperial conceit.
The interview is a must-see, for understanding the direction of how at least one half of our Leviathan is trying to move towards, which is not bad at all. Our state is in two minds, maybe three, and here is the much better one of the lot.
DPM said, "we’re achieving a paradox of active government support for personal responsibility, rather than active government support to take over personal responsibility or community responsibility."
This I find too much of a simplistic caricature of the Singapore model versus the decadent West. Government for the people versus government of the people.
Sometimes active government support for personal responsibility is wiser, sometimes active government to take over personal responsibility is required, paradoxically, for the personal responsibility to be realised.
Only a government by the people can tell us when's what, not even the esteemed DPM.
BBC’s Stephen Sackur gets sucker punched by DPM Tharman at St Gallen Symposium
DPM's tour de force performance in Switzerland. Hopp St Gallen!
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