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efficient. safe. protected. controlled. a utopian city-state run like a multinational company. welcome to singapore incorporated. ♪ this beautiful world ♪ ♪ felt the cool rain on my shoulder found something good in this beautiful world ♪ ♪ i felt the rain getting colder ♪ ♪ shchlt ah la la la la ♪ sha la la la ♪ >> singapore. one could be forgiven for thinking it's a giant, ultramodern shopping mall. an interconnected, fully wired, air-conditioned nanny state, where everything is beautiful and nothing hurts. and those things are kind of true, especially if you read ...

The asians did not invent them. it shouldn't work. >> it hasn't really worked like this anywhere else, and yet it works. >> i think that my objection or my discomfort with the lack of democratic freedoms is that i think we can allow a lot more of that without hurting singapore's prosperity and stability one ounce. >> right. >> what would we lose if we had a freer press? what would we lose if we had more democratic or opposition representation? and we'll make for not just a more livelier debate, we'll make for a better debate. we may well arrive at the conclusion that the current dispensation, ...