Tigris;25033 said:
Much has been said and commented on this Singapore-specific issue.
I can only say, this represents the dark side of Aspie and Autie people in Singapore. It made me think about this issue for a few days. I wasn't able to come back here on Aspies Central on the right frame of mind. I am both shocked by the way the video is presented to me, and dismayed, by the implicitly malicious motivation behind the uploading of the video.
Combined with two previous incidents, one regarding a Singaporean blogger's politically motivated attack on 'sexism' (actually a witch-hunt on people who different opinions from her) and another regarding a University preparatory school graduate's comments divisive rants on society, I feel that life as a 'person with special advantages' in Singapore is getting harder, not easier. And our society makes this happen.
If not of other countries' similar turn of societal state of events, I'd not even bother about this. But when our world faces issues such as Eurozone crisis, financial confidence in America shattering, and a slowdown in China's growth below its natural growth rate (evident in the increasing unemployment trend in China), our world has been shook.
Also, as money stays in rich people, many people - even more so in Singapore, where I live - just do not have the opportunities to move up in life. More so when one is poor, petrified with fear of being deviant from the mainstream society for doing things different, and being a PSA. 3 Ps. They hold us back.
Even more so, I think there is an increasing need to do these:
1. Positive thinking
Focus on what we can do good now, and what we can do good in the future.
If we work on ourselves, we will improve, and we had done our best.
2. Patience
Stay calm and wait for the storms to clear.
This could be the worst economic recession or depression in almost 80 years.
However, the storms will pass, because even the Great Depression ended after 10 years, and thirty-odd glorious years of economic expansion follows after this. Even the 1973 Oil crisis takes more than 10 years to pass, too, and ends up, the US has almost 25 years of uninterrupted economic boom, with 2 short recessions in between.
I think all bad times will have an eventual end. So we'll do our best to wait for them to end.
3. Pertinence
We need to stay relevant with today's needs. We will have to adapt to what society wants from us. Even if it hurts us.
Today, the society seems to want most (poor) people to be yes-men and slaves to the rich. It is the way it is, because some societies do have this. Imagine the richest Americans paying less taxes in proportion to their income, than their poorer (supposedly) middle-class counterparts. And this does not change even if we voted for a change in government, as the rich usually abuses their control of governments.
If this is the case, we will have no other options, but to accept the destiny of today's age. What we can do is, we now have to think, what we can best do to balance both survival needs - and pursuing our dreams, to live out our personalities?
