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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 papers or the carefully monitored internet. you look around the litterless streets where everything seems to work just fine, just fine. and you think, or you could be forgiven for thinking, gee, maybe a one-party system is just what we need. you look at all the social problems and ethnic strife, street crime, drugs that singapore has managed to avoid, and you could think, is this the life we want? it ain t ....
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So on a basic level, singapore works in so many ways. security, your family, education. housing. housing. so in a way, you re kind of numbed into thinking that, you know, everything s wonderful. and then you start to wonder after a while, is there another way of life? you know, i think that s the big kind of singapore dilemma in a way. so is there angst? yeah, but certainly there s angst. but i think there s no outlet for it. so everybody s, you know, going online. everybody likes to be anonymous about it. even online, they have paid the price for it. people have been let go of their jobs, and that s the price that we have to pay. the price may seem pretty high by american standards. no political dissent, no right to assembly, a restricted press and limited freedom of speech. sadir vadaketh, melanie chan, ....