its great to be sporean yah?

ok.. i was reading the newspaper today abt some guy praising spore ... that got a few qns raised in my very small head...

Ok, spore is undoubtedly a country ran by a grp of ppl we elect lah... i would like to say that its a democratic society lah but lets face facts... until we have a real opposition party, its a pseudo voting system... i'm not saying that its a bad thing.. lets think abt it carefully. the human species is plagued by this very irritating and vicious disease... its called ideas... unlike animals, we are capable of rationale thinking.. and while it may have resulted in us colonising the entire planet (its benefits though are subjective), we have come up with an unendless stream of different ideas that we shld live our life. so now we have democracy, we have communism... some say the secular muslim community is living what they consider an anti modernisation lifestyle. And what have this caused? mostly chaos. Why? simply because there is no tolerance or rather, no central control... now lets take a look at spore's system.

spore is a country that is PAP ruled... to those who despise that the PAP is leading some wat of a monarchy with the LEE family (my family) haha... at the front, the fact of the matter is that we shldnt be looking at the system... the system is just a means and a route to which ideally, we, the citizens can obtain the best candidate to lead the country.. thats primarily the idea of democracy. but the truth of the fact is that the system is nothing.. it is the ppl chosen from the system... Why do we continually choose the PAP? is it because there is no other choice? ok.. lets take the scenario that a big enough party that has young vibrant leaders... we the ppl choose them over PAP? Chances are that the some of the ppl will be swayed to the new party, but most will still stay with PAP. Why? because the PAP has proven their worth above all else... And now that we noe the system doesnt play a part, why doesnt PAP drawing all the talents matter severely?

This is because , the talent is like an army. Without unity and discipline, its not an army. it a mob... but with it, it becomes the key driving force of any country. Let history that that into account. When we look at Scotland, its ppl were spilt into factions and clans vieing for the throne in the 13th century. But with william wallace, they united adn won their freedom, only to be torn apart again due to internal conflict. So, PAP's continual drawing of talents is not necessarily bad. It only becomes a disfavour to the ppl when the real talents and covered. and as far as we can see, it hardly can be considered so.. to those who say that there maybe others who are better. well, if we have to try everyone, we die first... to learn to live with it...

This is the problem with the democratic system.. and above all, the American system... before the leader of the country, gd as he gets, like mr clinton, can slip comfortably into the position, he has to be distracted by campaigning for the new yr... waste of time and resources...

But, in the end, it is rather easy for spore to mantain the grip since we are after all, nothing but a tiny dot... yah except that we have one of the best economies in ASIA..... NITEZ