I am depressed. Am I the only libertarian from Singapore?

Posted by admin on May 15th, 2006 filed in General

I’ve been having a debate of sorts with this young lady over here (I can’t believe the day I would actually call someone else “young lady”… oh my god I’m old!), and the first thing that springs to mind about Gayle Goh is that she is intelligent, well-read, articulate… and left-wing.

It’s not just her I think. It appears that the brightest from our education system tend to be lefties. This is a depressing trend.

I think it might have something to do with the fact that our entire education system is state-run. When ah-kong controls everything, and the teachers are all employees of ah-kong, I guess there is very little incentive to teach that people can get on perfectly fine without interference from governments. Little wonder also that the products of our education system have a ‘employee’ mindset. How do you cultivate entrepreneurs when everyone’s conception of capitalism is that it is an evil to be constrained by the state?

The idea that governments can design and tweak society or the economy to get the results you want is like believing that God has tweaked and designed humanity to make us what we are.

Yes. Left-wingers and intelligent-designers bear the same strain of lunacy.