The Singapore I want / Rising Tides

First, Jeff Yen points to an interesting discussion on the SPUG Forum entitled, "The Singapore I want".

Which ties in nicely with a piece freshly written by Sze-Meng and Vaughn, "It’s a good thing the rising tide lifts all boats" (written for Friday Matters for Straits Times, but not published). It's not directly about a Singapore that the writers want. But by painting an alternative history of sorts--

But what if Singapore had taken a slightly different path? What if meritocracy had led us instead in the direction of increasing social inequality and slowing social mobility as it has done in many countries larger, wiser, and older than us? The country that the generation which saw independence imagined in Singapore’s future would be a very different place.

----the writers do invoke a vision of the Singapore they want.

Interesting reads.

(...to be continued)