Some people prefer not to rock the current Boat.
For any form of changes to the current situation,
despite no signs of improving growing inequality, living cost, heathcare cost, unfair
job competition, failing of infrastructures etc, whatever change will only invite
the worst to descend.
Their preference of status quo mentality is largely
based on the assumption that they have been guaranteed seats to stay onboard
our Singapore Boat.
These people may have forgotten to ask, given the
limited seats on our Singapore Boat which in fact, is only a sampan 2.0 when
even a huge ship like the Titanic had limited space and limited number of safety
boats, are there sufficient seats for the same people who refuse to rock it?
Could these seats been taken already? Who will be flung off the Boat to make
way for the better deserved?
There are constantly new passengers and pets drawn from ALL corners of this universe
to our wonderful but limited size Sampan 2.0. Who should be given the priority
to board or to stay onboard?
The Australian BBQ-public-event-turned-PA-member-private-event,
an event which concerned mere chunks of meat, has drawn out the sheer vicousness
of the Selected Group. They won’t hesitate to turn into ugly savages over matters
of survival such as procuring a seat onboard our Boat. How then can those people
outside the Selected Group who support the current Boat be assured that there
will be a fair share of the tickets to board?
Don’t ever
forget Hsien Loong said that Singapore Boat belongs to everyone. The savage-like
nature of the Selected Group is not unique to this world.
To add on to the space-constraints, we are also now witnessing an emerging class of
aristocrats breeding among us, self-proclaiming their absolute rights to all the
space, lives and resources onboard because of their self-proclaimed superiority
from the peasants.
Think again.
The greatest irony though not shocking, is that the
same people who have advocated for status quo might be among the first to be hauled
out of the Boat into the abysmal sea to make way for the more deserving people. And the aristocrats will decide who are the more deserving ones.
Have no doubt on this. Aristocrats are void of
gratitude. They believe they are rightly
superior and therefore do not owe their power to anyone. But the actions and
beliefs of those who prefer status quo empower the aristocrats to the absolute
ownership of the Boat and it will be the same power that will be used to push these poeple out of the Boat.
Don't rock the Boat only when you have been
promised a space on the Boat. But then again, a promise can be made to be
broken. It won't be the first time and neither will it be the last.
