3/03/2013

My Sunday morning rumbling sermon.



I have received more negative feedbacks on my tongue in cheek post that no car can be quality living. That post had gone viral in a small way, circulating quietly in some circles, disagreeing with what I said as many see car ownership as quality living. I too feel the same. The convenience of a car, to live a lifestyle free from the unsatisfactory public transport and dependency on someone else for your transport needs, is a very desirable item. Let no sycophant con you into believing that the public transport system and taxis can replace the role of owning a car. There are many other factors attached to car ownership, emotional and psychological and a sense of well being and independence, freedom.

The sycophants too will try to talk the people into believing in living in ever smaller homes that are ever more costly as progress. What is the point of reclaiming more land and expanding the social space in the island when they will be filled to the brim by more heads and bodies? Quality living must come with more space for everyone and allowing reasonable car ownership. This is one of the major reasons why people are objecting to the 6.9m population.

The crappy answers that more infrastructure and homes will be built to alleviate the problems that the people are facing now is bull shit. The whole situation will be back to square one, a crammed environment with people everywhere living in close proximity and bluffing each other that it is quality living. Why are people running away for the weekend to the North, or fly away to some islands, weekend escapees?

We need the comfort of space and more space for everyone. Not more heads and bodies to fill up whatever available space in the name of economic growth. Economic growth is to lead to better quality of life and quality living, not to become sardines in a can.

This sickening mindset got to change, got to go. While the elite have their ample private space and freedom to own their many cars, the average Sinkies are deprived from such luxuries and constantly told to make do with what they have and be happy and be grateful, and to believe that that is quality living. The Sinkies are not daft anymore and will not believe in the stupid soothsayers who are really no better than the average Sinkies but happen to be in a privilege position of power or hold a few more pieces of papers.

Walk the talk and ask themselves if they would like to live the way an average Sinkie is living, in a small flat and without the convenience of car ownership? Many young men and women are going to be very disappointed when they step into adulthood, wanting better and finer things in life only to find them unattainable unless they belong to a very exclusive and small group of elite, exceptionable abilities or from very exceptional families with exceptionable inheritance.

Gone were the days when young men of average family background could go swinging around, dating girlfriends in their cars or borrowed family cars. We need to bring back some of the convenience of the good old days, more leisure time and space, more living than working, more pleasure than pressure.

9 comments:

  1. Roads are meant for transportation of goods,police,ambulance and those providing essential services etc.
    We should even allow bullock carts on the road.
    I see many earning not much but getting new expensive car and spent their time changing their sport rims.
    Come to giving allowances to their parents,always not enough.
    Public transport is convenient.I use to go sentosa beach see sunset without the need of a car.My mei mei say lidat more romantic.Car for wat?Not as if there are no cheap hotel nowadays.

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  2. Even if u have more physical space, its of no use if the mind cannot be free. Wake up Singapore n start living!

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  3. GST is to help the poor?
    PAP wants to help you improve your quality of life by making it difficult for you to own a car?

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  4. Cars are one material representation of personal freedom.

    In Singapore, the PAP will have none of that, because it affects their business.

    So they impose high tax on cars, and with their friends in the cuntry's central bank, limit what you are "allowed" to borrow to obtain yourself a personal vehicle so that you can make your own program and not have to rely on the govt monopoly public transport system.

    Nevermind that, they tax the roads you use too -- from the exorbitant road tax you pay on cars, to the daily "pay-as-you-use" system aka ERP.

    Good, they got you there and have created multiple streams of "revenue".

    They also own a monopoly public transport system -- your only viable alternative to transporting yourself around. These are huge listed public corporations and employ thousands of people, and generating plenty of "revenue" -- easily done if you own a huge monopoly.

    Doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor; car owner or public transport passenger -- everytime you step out of home to go somewhere -- the government gets a little richer.

    Fantastic revenue model. enough to make even the greediest capitalist cry.

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  5. The world will be a better place without PAP. Vote alternatives.

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