Lee Kuan Yew, modern Singapore’s Founding Father, suffered serious character flaws which continues to haunt his island nation, declared the unhappiest in the world. He belaboured in the delusion that only those who could make money were intelligent. He tore mercilessly into J. B. Jeyaretnam, Worker’s Party Secretary-General, in and outside Parliament and mocked him for not being a millionaire, probably multimillionaire if not multibillionaire, like him. Lee slapped JB, an ex-Judge, with numerous defamation suits, drove him into multiple bankruptcies.
Ironically, Lee was seen as “incorruptible” although Lee and Lee, the legal firm run by the wife and co-partner, secured all S&P Agreements involving HDB flats and other gov’t housing construction projects. In the early years, most of Singapore’s GDP growth came from gov’t housing projects, later from the electronics industry too. In keeping things in perspective, the number employed by the Tata Group in India comes to nearly a million compared with Singapore’s 3.5m labour force in 2020.
Lee may not have believed that he could take it with him when he goes. After his wife passed away, Lee reportedly said that he probably would not see her again when his time came. Life, he believed, does not continue after death.
That raises disturbing questions. Lee appeared to have no principles and drove the people into being moneyfaces. Money, Lee believed, was the be all and end all of life.
If Lee had any principles, he would not have lured North Borneo and Sarawak into Malaysia, would not have abandoned them when Singapore exited the Federation.
Jeffrey Kitingan raised the issue with Lee in Singapore, in the late 80s. Lee remained silent, looked down, and hung his head. When he looked up, his eyes were moist. Jeffrey did not press him and never raised the issue again. Lee would invite Jeffrey for a meeting each time the latter was in Singapore.
Lee was only interested in keeping the money flowing in from Malaysia. Singapore took advantage of every perceived weakness of the Malay, and Malaysia. Indeed, Singapore’s continuing prosperity could only be at the expense of Malaysia, the Malay in particular.
The S’pore gov’t belatedly discovered not so long ago that its’ people, living in a highly regimented and disciplined society, will never be creative, inventive, innovative and entrepreneurial. So, it had no choice but fall back on imported talent.
At the same time, it slightly loosened restrictions. Creativity, inventiveness, innovativeness and entreprenership cannot be summoned up at the press of a button.
S’pore might score high in IQ and maths tests but these mean nothing in practice. The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
Chinese, like Japanese, are culturally incapable of creativity, inventiveness and innovation.
So, they resort to copy pasting, plagiarism, copyright infringement, stealing technology and intellectual property and so-called reverse engineering.
They are the original copy cats.
Chinese students do well in maths because they have discovered that public exams are scams. Chinaman help each other to do a number on others. I offered to advise MahaTHIEF’s beloved Melayu to beat the shit out of the CinaKwai. He didn’t respond. So, Melayu will continue to be MORON DOUBLE DUNGGU like the people in social media. Chinaman only respects those who beat the shit out of him.
GLCs, GLICs and gov’t owned firms in M’sia employ Melayu, in S’pore those who get all As. Both are failures.
India is not a regimented and disciplined society. It’s so indisciplined that many Indians can’t wait until they reach home, they defecate in the nearest public drain “since we are now an independent nation”.
It’s dysfunctional as the largest democracy and the only functioning anarchy in the world. Two Indians will have three opinions.
So, it’s creative, inventive, innovative, and entrepeneurial.
Hotmail and FB, for example, were created by young Indian engineers.
Indians are only dangerous when they are organised and trained. Otherwise, they sit around and drink endless cups of tea. Those who have been abroad don’t work when they return home for good.
They don’t want to be party to illegalities like the evil caste system which rules the country. On paper, the rule of law is the basis of the Constitution. Only the Supreme Court of India observes that in practice.
IQ tests have long been discredited as quack science. Intelligence cannot be measured, probably does not exist. Some people may be quick in the brain, others slower.
The great majority of the people with high IQ never achieve anything in life, die in obscurity.
The only aspect that IQ tests prove are the ability to do IQ tests. These tests only focus on mathematics, comprehension and vocabulary. They cannot measure creativity, inventiveness and innovation.
IQ tests cannot measure revealed knowledge, inspiration, enlightenment and communication with deities.
It’s written in the Holy Bible, the Word of God, “the temple of the living God is within you”.
“You are made in the image and likeness of the living God.”
The gross human body is not “us”. “We” are the undifferentiated consciousness in nothingness trapped in space and time in the gross human body as differentiated consciousness seeking certainties through delusions in its comfort zone. That’s where religion, belief systems, come in for a dumbing down process.
The gross human body is heritage which goes on to gather the energy of the sun through Mother Nature, the Will of “God”, on Earth. It must be returned to Mother Earth.
The brain deceives “us” even when we resist deception.
Einstein attributed his IQ to daydreaming.
Srinivasa Ramanujan, hailed by the University of Cambridge as “one of the greatest mathematicians who ever lived”, attributed all his mathematics to a personal and family deity. He received the mathematics for the black holes when the world did not know they existed.
Generally, the concept comes first, then theory, finally the law and mathematics. In his case, the mathematics came first. He had to work backwards at Cambridge, from the mathematics to the concept, and again from the concept to the mathematics.
Spiritualist, mystic and yogi SadhGuru can answer any question put to him. No one ever attributed his extraordinary abilities to high IQ.
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World with a View — Memories from Borneo, British Malaya and beyond.
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