Naked meritocracy will destroy and bury Singaporeans alive!

 Some quarters are chirping merrily about meritocracy in Singapore and some even really believe in this myth as the best thing for Singapore. Such unthinking people, Singapore has a lot of them, even calling themselves western educated elites, benefiting from restrained meritocracy to be where they are today, but breathing naked meritocracy every day, probably because they did not have to live with the consequences. They would be all dead and gone.

What is naked meritocracy? This is a path taken when the best in the world should be given the best and top jobs based on one criteria, merit. This, in practice, can be seen in many American and western companies, when foreigners were employed to take over the top jobs and also the whole companies. Yes, naked meritocracy has no constraints, only the best would be hired to take over everything the predecessors built. 

Caveat, the truth is that it is not the case. Naked meritocracy only applies in an ideal situation, when nothing else matters, citizenship, race, religion etc etc do not matter. In other words, naked meritocracy will be practised when the daft are in charge. In practice, this did not apply as the top dog would dictate how naked is the meritocracy. The top dog can bring in his whole village and family but give a superficial treatment to meritocracy to deceive the daft and the unthinking that it is all about meritocracy.

In an ideal state of naked meritocracy advocated by the shallow and unthinking, like some in Singapore, every top position in Singapore, in the govt or in the private or commercial sectors, will be replaced by a foreign talent with the best talent for the job.  Singapore has only about 3 million citizens. How are they going to compete, in naked talents, with the best from 7 billion talents out there? For every top job in Singapore, there will be millions of top talents that will be better and smarter than a Singaporean and must be hired over the Singaporeans. Statistically, all the top jobs would be given to a foreign talent, real or fake. All the rest of the senior positions below the top job would also be taken up by foreign talents with millions of talents to spare.

Naked meritocracy is like digging our own grave, voluntarily, willingly and stupidly, and saying it is good for Singapore to continue to be the best city state in the world, minus the original Singaporeans. Naked meritocracy is an existential threat to the existence of Singaporeans.

Who is yelping for naked meritocracy? Who is yelping for meritocracy that is good for Singapore but will bury every Singaporean alive? In reality, no country would practise naked meritocracy unless they suffered from the 'Stupidity has no cure' disease.

Looking at the growing number of Singaporean graduates being unemployed or underemployed, it is a sign that naked meritocracy is gaining traction in Singapore. As they said, the fools would soon part with their money. In Singapore's case, the fools would soon part with their inheritance...and country. And even pledge to defend their country with their lives.

Empire of Lies being chopped up piece by piece

 War is the USA's only economic savior, and the USA needs enemies. All the advantages that the USA held in the past after WW2 are gone or have been overtaken by others.

The USA could not compete in manufacturing as it had been hollowed out due to greed. The USA no longer controls the oil trade in US$. The USA lost its geopolitical influence in Africa, South America, ASEAN and Central Asia. The USA lost its edge in space exploration, renewable energy, ship building, high tech innovations and soon will also lose its last legacy in semiconductors.

What the USA has left is a huge propaganda machine that everybody knows is generating nothing but fake news. But that setup has practically lost its last sliver of credibility. The war in Iraq exposed the extent of the propaganda that the USA can generate, and how dangerous it was to believe in it.

The USA's global military bases will not last if the US$ hegemony falls apart. And the US$ hegemony is about to be defanged when the de-dollarization movement picks up with the expansion of BRICS.

Slow and steady is how BRICS is dismantling the US$ hegemony.

Anonymous

4G-led Singapore is shut out of BRICS ! Rest of ASEAN countries can join BRICS !

Russia names main condition for BRICS membership - any country seeking to join the BRICS group should not participate in illegal unilateral sanctions, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov has said, emphasizing that this is a key criteria for Moscow to welcome new members.

Speaking at a press conference in Moscow on Tuesday, the diplomat touched upon Russia’s vision for the further enlargement of BRICS.

“For us, one of the key criteria for admission to BRICS and welcoming partner states is non-participation…in the illegal sanctions policies, illegal restrictive measures against any BRICS participant, first of all, of course, against Russia,” Ryabkov stated.

This stance is met with “full understanding” by other BRICS members, Ryabkov noted. Moscow expects such a position to maintain its “core nature” as the group grows in the future, he said.

Anonymous 

PS. Singapore is proud of its principles and American rules based order or rules of law. Singapore would be happy not to join BRICS?

Covid19 - India will not learn

 Even not exposed, it does not come as a surprise. China's vaccine had been demonized by all Western states even though recognized by the WHO. China had all the vaccines to help poor countries in Africa and isolated states. And what did the USA do? It ordered India to counter China's vaccine diplomacy. Mind you, the agenda was not asking India to give a helping hand to those poor countries, but to counter China's vaccine diplomacy. And the stupid Indians complied.

Little did the Indians expect that they would end up being caught with their pants down and unable to have enough vaccines available when the COVID19 spread beyond their expectation, killing hundreds of thousands.

And did the USA rush to India's aid? Even with repeated pleas for help, the USA refused to allow the manufacture of its patented vaccines to be made available for Indian production. Looking after the interest of their big Pharma is more important than saving lives. It was only when other countries started sending vaccines to India that they finally saw themselves being seen as untrustworthy. We only hope that the Indians have learned their lesson.

The point to note is never trust the USA under any circumstances. Those who trust them will live to regret sooner or later. Just look at the Europeans today. What have they gained by following the USA in confronting Russia?

Anonymous

Mercy for Joe Biden

 For Joe Biden, I will suggest 'mercy killing' rather than a 'painless killing' using euthanasia.

The man is a pain to watch, subjected to elderly abuse and made to suffer indignities and shame. It is perhaps fortunate that he is suffering from dementia, able to forget what he hears or say, and is thus able to bear with all that shaming. This could only happen in the USA, the so-called beacon of democracy that it wants the world to follow.

Word has discreetly been thrown up, in unofficial circles that is, that the Democrats are now panicking and finding ways to pull Biden out of the Presidential race. At this late stage, it is quite impossible for any aspiring candidate to rise up. Will Obama be back to take on Trump. Otherwise, Trump will just sleepwalk into the White House. Good or bad, we shall see.

Suffice to say, the one that takes over the White House will have a mountain of trouble awaiting. Two wars to support, another war brewing, mounting debts, more decoupling and derisking failures, more loss of the China market and having to deal with a rising BRICS and its de-dollarization momentum.

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