Young, Educated and IDIOTIC

A fortnight ago I had a big row over politics with the guys I played football with. After our kickabout, we started to shoot the shit but ended up shooting one another. It was a case of me vs them. They thought that our country is so great and our regime could do no wrong, but obviously I felt very differently and I didn’t shy from expressing my views. Despite being outnumbered I didn’t back down. I decided that they should be treated to a drawn-out battle.

It was like talking to that popinjay Dennis Oh all over again, but much worse. Dennis Oh was at least educated and articulate in expressing his stupidity. The morons I pitted my wits – and patience – against were obviously functional retards. Our argument was more like a shouting match than anything else.

It will be pointless to stretch my patience further by describing our exchange in its entirety. I shall just be brief and highlight the arguments they made.


“Singapore is a republic country. Republic means no democracy.”

Strange. I thought a republic is a country without a monarchy.


“You think at a higher level. The rest of us just do not want to think.”

Classic. See no evil hear no evil.


“This has nothing to do with Political Science. A republic never has freedom of speech.” (His reply upon being told he should go take up Politics 101 after he thrice failed to understand my simple explanation of the meaning of ‘republic’.

Another classic: “I don’t want to hear I don’t want to hearrrrrr”……*cups hands over ears and starts bawling*.)


“The government has every right not to help its people.”

If the government is not obliged to serve its people, what do we need a government for?


“ALL the foreigners in our country are talented.”

Quite a few are peddling their talents and bodies in Geylang as we speak, and they are not even marginally good-looking or service-oriented.


“I know where the government job centre is (after asking me where it is). I walked past there before so I KNOW what is going on INSIDE.”

The guy has X-ray vision.


“Those (referring to the middle-age jobseekers) who have lost their jobs and busy hunting for work so that they can feed their families DESERVE it. They should not have gotten married in the first place unless they know they are well-off and earning big bucks.”

Social Darwinism at its very best. I look forward to seeing the same thing happen to the wise man 20 years down the road.



“Singapore has a great education system.”

Don’t tell everybody mate. When so many of us cannot even speak and write English competently even after ten years of compulsory English based education, when young educated people don’t even have an idea who Kim Jung Il is, you don’t want to shout out to the world the excellence of our education system.”


“We don’t need a minimum wage system. Even with very low wages, we can still survive.”

This guy should join the Survival Series.


Ministers need to be paid astronomical amounts of salaries and bonuses so that they can continue to do a good job and maintain their integrity.

The more money you earn = the more capable and moral you are. Move aside Obama, Madoff for President!


“There is NO NEED for a government to be ACCOUNTABLE to its people.”

*Speechless*


(Being unable to understand what our National Pledge is all about, despite reciting it for over 20 years.)

You have people who go to MENSA, and then you have special people who go to DENSA.


“A company should take in the most people at the lowest wages possible, because it is optimum to do so”

Let’s revive slavery. Free labour = optimum earnings for the company. Socially reprehensible but so long as the company benefits, who cares?


(Comparing Singapore to third-world countries and then declare that Singapore is a great country because it is clearly better than these countries.)

Pakistan is only nearly as bad as Afghanistan, therefore Pakistan is a great country.


“You ONLY know how to complain. You NEVER do anything to improve yourself.”

Incredible. The guy KNOWS EXACTLY what I am doing at any given moment.


“You sound very fed up about government policies, THEREFORE you are ANTI-GOVERNMENT.”

Yet another classic - I have very strong opinions AGAINST marriage, THEREFORE I am AGAINST people who are married.



Thinking about it still makes me feel frustrated. I am frustrated not because people have the temerity to disagree with me. If you have perfectly logical reasons why I am wrong, please state them. Resorting to personal attacks, making baseless assumptions, using fallacious arguments, and then treating propaganda as gospel truth do not add value to what you are asserting. I am totally disgusted that a bunch of young educated people could have such limited ability for critical thinking and basic reasoning skills.

It has been said time and again that our youths are our future, our hope for change. The people who said and are saying this seem now merely idealists whose sole mechanism for coping with life is hope. In truth, hope is the same as faith. Both believe in things that are not backed by evidence, an assertion that things will somehow turn out right. Irrational, complacent, useless and impossibly stupid.

Contrary to popular belief, the young are not necessarily rebels and iconoclasts, and the old are not always conformists and stick-in-the-mud. Young people often believe what they read without ever feeling the need to question its veracity. If it is from the textbook it MUST be true. If the government says so, it MUST be true. When the teachers say so, it MUST be true. When the media says so, it MUST be true. If MILEY CYRUS SAYS SO, DAMN! IT MUST BE TRUE!

The next generation is not our future. It is merely an extension of the present. Nothing will ever change in a culture that strives on conformity and blind obedience. Our future is in the dung pits. To the Hells with the next generation.