Even:

‘Nietzschean’ as in the government’s policy of breeding plenty of Ubermensch-like citizens.

Sometime during the 80s (or perhaps it was the 70s) the government had a scheme to encourage those with university degrees to have children (and discourage non-graduates from having children). Naturally, such a scheme met with much outrage and disgust and was eventually phased out, but this shows what lengths the government will go to.

And yes, for a country with one of the best GDPs in the world, its structures of control and class distinctions make its society look rather feudalistic.

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RedGreen:

Thanks for that insight.

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unregulated captalism isn’t a break through innovative new ideal.
What you have just described is basically FUEDALISM, with the state functioning as an instrument of those few at the top. People and environment, quality of life, arn’t on the agenda, well actually thinking about it they are………., only thing is they are to be suppressed as they are threatening to cowards at top.
I don’t know exactly what u mean by Nietzschean, but fuedalism is what it is. And it gives miserable results.

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As a Singaporean, I can attest to the fact that Singapore’s draconian criminal laws are used more as a means of social control than to achieve some sort of crime-eradication objective.

My dad, who onced worked for the Singaporean government, recounts incidents where the government, for instance, passed legislation overnight so as to convict individuals who are acquitted, individuals whom they deem as ‘threats to national security’ or are considered ‘undesirables’.

The death penalty is used much the same way. Independent studies have shown that the poor and uneducated are disproportionately represented among those executed. These are the same people who turn to crime as a ‘quick fix’ way out of destitution and poverty.

The Singaporean government also has an elitist mentality in relation to the personal successes of its citizens, where the poor, less educated and less fortunate are further marginalised to maintain the ‘pure pool’ of intellectually and financially capable individuals. This programme of breeding successful and wealthy individuals begins at an early age, where kids as young as 9 are placed in a stratified system in primary school; which form class you belong to depends on your grades and is marked with an alphabet. (For instance, in Primary 5, if you’re a top student, you’re placed in Class 5A, with the ‘academically worst’ students being placed in Class 5H. Those with the misfortune of being placed in the ‘H’ class suffer pertutual taunts from the ‘smarter’ people.)

So-called ‘mediocrity’ is subject to shaming – public or otherwise – in Singapore, whether it’s the criminals or the less successful/qualified. The death penalty is but another means of social control and social engineering by a government whose ideology is unashamedly Nietzschean.

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