Finding the Fulcrum in Singapore Politics
I am XenoBoy. I am the Political Savant.
Today, I return from a long hiatus and turn my gaze again to Singapore Politics. Imagine a context where there are unseen historians in Singapore, who observe the Homeric play of Singapore politics, who know the outcome of Singapore’s political Illiad but who can only observe but not intervene. The story of Singapore’s political Illiad is the perpetual dominance of the incumbent regime for the next five generations.
Imagine then, one historian, who acts out of his assigned role and intervenes in this political Illiad; who shifts the course of the outcomes. At which juncture and how does he intervene? Where is the fulcrum? What is the hinge that can turn this 40 year old story decisively?
The Opposition politicians in Singapore fight like the Aecheans and the Trojans while the white-robed Gods of Olympus intervene to play in the plains of Troy. Boosting one hero to doom another captain. Who dares turn against the Gods themselves?
I am Xenoboy. I am the Political Savant.
In the Illiad, Achilles, son of Thetis, a Killer of Armies reigns as the supreme warrior demi-god. Imagine he is shown Homer’s Illiad and shown the games the Gods play. Can Achilles not slay Zeus himself? A killer of Gods?
The fulcrum of Singapore politics exists when the rage of an “offspring” of the Gods, an Achilles, can be made to oppose his bloodlines.
The fulcrum point is the turning of this Achilles by rage to betray. Who among the Opposition in Singapore can be the Odysseus? The crafty strategist that can trigger this fulcrum.
The plan is simple for the Opposition in Singapore. For the sake of Singapore politics, divert all resources to finding this Achilles, the son of the Gods, bite down your pride and acknowledge him as the fulcrum point to slay the Gods themselves.
Perhaps then, the Illiad that is Singapore politics alters irrevocably and all Singaporeans can rejoice in the uncertainty of tomorrow and not knowing what will happen next in the political landscape.
I am XenoBoy. I am the Political Savant.
Quote of the Day
"I had always thought that a person born blind and given sight later on in life through the miracles of modern medicine would feel reborn ... in the end, those gifted with new eyesight tend to retreat into their own worlds. Some beg to be made blind again, yet when they consider it further, they hesitate, and realize they're unable to surrender their sight. Bad visions are better than no visions ..." --- Douglas Coupland 'Eleanor Rigby'
posted by xenoboysg at 11:42 AM
7 Comments:
Not only is this calculated to confound and mystify, it also makes no sense.
ahaha, you again Agagooga!
I am generous of spirit today. the entry was designed neither to confound nor to mystify. Post your questions and I will make sense. If not, you can always check with Goddess Molly for an interpretation.
No, XenoBoy. Molly suspects that Agagooga might have come here after seeing Molly's entry in his friends' page.
Jesus Fucking Christ, you are one hell of a twister. Crazy, convoluted but still so maddeningly logical. hah
R u trying to say opposition need to find a capable and arrongant person(achilles) in PAP who was snubbed and anger by the leaders of PAP and make him their leader so as to defeat PAP itself.
But the question is who will be the person in the opposition (Odysseus) who manage to persuade achilles to rise against PAP?
After reading Molly I decide to add a bit more lol.
R u trying to say opposition need to find a capable and arrongant person(achilles) in PAP who felt snubbed, angered and betrayed by the leaders of PAP (GODS) bcos he felt manipulated and used by them. Opposition need to make him (achilles) their leader so as to defeat PAP itself.
But the question is who will be the person in the opposition (Odysseus) who manage to persuade "achilles" to rise against PAP and thus tip the fulcrum of Singapore politics?
Ahaha, yes Molly is the excellent decontructor of my posts. Succinctly put. Yes, what you say in summary can be the means. and yes again before Achilles, we need Odysseus.
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