It infuriates me when people speak like headless cockroaches. Like the author on Temasek Review who churned out a commentary based on the New York Times' interview with MM Lee, which was published in the Sunday Times today. What a fast writer, I thought, but full of BS. Apparently the TR article made references to the MM losing sleep over whatever reason, such that he has to meditate at night.
Seriously, do you think you know the MM enough to make such inferences?
The Temasek Review has been applauded for its dissent voices; its slogan "voicing dissent is not unpatriotic; it is our duty" says it all. But is there anyone there to draw a line between being objective and behaving like childish loud mouths? And worse, loud mouths with a habit of firing off on their keyboards, and yet keep mum and slog in their cubicles when their bosses yell at them? I read TR occasionally when it comes to issues that are worth the debate. But when I look at the comments trailing the articles, it's like arriving at an adult playground in cyberspace, complete with bullies and all. I won't boycott TR just as yet; I hope to see the day people wake up and realise that such verbal lambasting only adds to their thumb-sucking antics as self-gratifying kids that won't grow up.
Give anyone a computer, and they become kings in their own cyberworld. But in real life they're simply worms in their own holes.
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