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**PhillipHer** · 06-30-2012, 08:56 AM

I don't think they will be responding anytime in a hurry. The book published in 2008 by the same title is available in the NLB and I actually have read it a year or less back from the loans. The story is nothing new, perhaps the juxtapositioning of facts and the timelines gives, as Barr intended, a lasting impression that there is a grand design and unmistakably you know whose hands were at it.

The early streaming, the creation of a scholar class that flows into a mandarinate, from which the power center will derive, although I think that the early streaming from GKS big systems engineers project (involving the budding Ho Ching) was probably a genuine attack at the problem of dropout rates at the time, but which evolved to nicely doevtail into Old Man's plans.

The upshot of this Grand Design has always been to ensure that the govt, in the sinister mind of that Old Man, will always be in the firm hands of the ethnic group(s) that can provide continual vitality and momentum to this place. The collateral damage will be the Malays of course. Always for the greater good, the Old Man would tell you. Looked at from that perspective, the scheme of things seem morally irreprehensible and infact even laudable.

The downside is that to do all this, the Old Man had been bending the rules and politically engineering the system so as to ensure that he has an uninterrupted reign to put it all in place, and to do this, he blocked out competition in the political sphere. Of cos, needless to say, recent events like the GE2011 and the loss of a GRC continue to buck the plan and pose the hard question whether in spite of this grand design, the PAP indeed has monopoly of the talent pool.

What we need to do is to fix this entrenched system so that true meritocracy and talents even from the opposing sides can come through. And we cant do it with the likes of those gentlemen you have mentioned. We first need to fix that parliamentary disadvantage.

Barr also co-authored with Carl Tocki the other book Paths Not Taken which is another good read.

Thank you Television for starting this thread. It provides a good canvas to paint our diverse thoughts.

Tharman, Shanmugam, Viv Bala, Iswaran and Yaacob, the 5 clowns in the cabinet need to go for statistics class or even a simple arithmetic class. Then they need to go visit the graves of Ishak and Raja before writing a response to the allegations.

And it took couple of white men and not men in white to tell them they have been made a fool of us.

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PhillipHer Join Date Jun 2008 Age 58 Posts 4,481 Senior Member	I don't think they will be responding anytime in a hurry. The book published in 2008 by the same title is available in the NLB and I actually have read it a year or less back from the loans. The story is nothing new, perhaps the juxtapositioning of facts and the timelines gives, as Barr intended, a lasting impression that there is a grand design and unmistakably you know whose hands were at it. The early streaming, the creation of a scholar class that flows into a mandarinate, from which the power center will derive, although I think that the early streaming from GKS big systems engineers project (involving the budding Ho Ching) was probably a genuine attack at the problem of dropout rates at the time, but which evolved to nicely doevtail into Old Man's plans. The upshot of this Grand Design has always been to ensure that the govt, in the sinister mind of that Old Man, will always be in the firm hands of the ethnic group(s) that can provide continual vitality and momentum to this place. The collateral damage will be the Malays of course. Always for the greater good, the Old Man would tell you. Looked at from that perspective, the scheme of things seem morally irreprehensible and infact even laudable. The downside is that to do all this, the Old Man had been bending the rules and politically engineering the system so as to ensure that he has an uninterrupted reign to put it all in place, and to do this, he blocked out competition in the political sphere. Of cos, needless to say, recent events like the GE2011 and the loss of a GRC continue to buck the plan and pose the hard question whether in spite of this grand design, the PAP indeed has monopoly of the talent pool. What we need to do is to fix this entrenched system so that true meritocracy and talents even from the opposing sides can come through. And we cant do it with the likes of those gentlemen you have mentioned. We first need to fix that parliamentary disadvantage. Barr also co-authored with Carl Tocki the other book Paths Not Taken which is another good read. Thank you Television for starting this thread. It provides a good canvas to paint our diverse thoughts. Tharman, Shanmugam, Viv Bala, Iswaran and Yaacob, the 5 clowns in the cabinet need to go for statistics class or even a simple arithmetic class. Then they need to go visit the graves of Ishak and Raja before writing a response to the allegations. And it took couple of white men and not men in white to tell them they have been made a fool of us.
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