Heed Hesiod, my dear Leaders

As the Greek poet Hesiod put it more than 2,700 years ago: 'The price of
achievement is toil; and the gods have ruled that you must pay in
advance.''You'll get nowhere with them either being nice or being tough' - no,
that's not quite it, Tun Dr Mahathir. Singapore became tough in large part
because you and your ilk were never particularly 'nice'. You might have
enfeebled us if you had smothered us instead with treacly love. We should thank
you for desisting.

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'Challenge and response' - that is the primary mechanism by which
civilisations have emerged throughout history, said the historian Arnold
Toynbee.

Note : The nation has more to loose as we molly cuddle each other with feel good spin stories factors. Arrogant and little Napeopleons running the country to it's brink of collapse and financial mismanagement and blunders continue to drain the nation of it's resources and potential.

Hesiod has said 2700 years ago and it still rings true. What more if Terence McKenna and Ian Xel Lungold's prophecies were true, the rate of change will be so great within the next 20 years, that one could very well be relegated to the boondocks of globalism if you do not at least play keep-up. Forget catching-up.