Blank Doll speaks.

This needs to be said. I don't care if I'm going against all the activists because I don't agree with them anyway, freedom of speech? Sheesh.

Singapore is a great nation today. We are the City that rose from the debris of British colonial rule, the City that transcended her lowly origins to become a true jewel in South East Asia. We have a buoyant economy, too much capital, a politically stable government and a maturing social outlook.

It is decadent, excessive and deplorable to waste our assets away by allowing dissent and allowance to social indulgence as well as the inanities of pleasuring the individual to squander away what we have today.

I look at the average Singaporean youth on the street and all I hear from them is the same old slogan which I am sure they do not understand fully. Support liberalisation, freedom of speech, learn to say no to the PAP. Do they truly understand what they are asking for? Would these self-declared proponents of individualism and liberty allow gay marriages in Singapore?

You chase after the latest fashions, immerse yourself in pop culture, look ever West for an identity, spend your money and youth on materialism and all the while, you remain blind to the potential and the opportunities of the present. Truly the youth of today are too politically apathetic, too irresponsible for civil participation and too weak.

If we are to prosper in the future, to bring Singapore to greater heights, the youth of today must understand that we need to support Singapore. It is not enough to wish for better social services, to wish that the government would loosen up. Do these things bring about a greater nation? A stronger military? A more powerful economy? Do these things exalt Singapore to the ranks of great powerhood?

No.

The great welfare systems of the West were built upon the backs of our ancestors. Yes, the assured welfare of the citizens of the West was built upon the sweat, the blood and the tears of us- Asians. Without colonialism, the West would never have had the resources to advance themselves to their states today.

We must never underestimate the West, after all, they manage to grasp their opportunity three hundred years before and achieved the impossible- to reverse the relationship between the East and the West such that for once, they became the masters. Nonetheless, they are weakening.

Yes, the West is weakening. Look at the weary states of Europe, consumed by exhaustion and the poison of faded glory before the great empire of the United States, compelled by an aging generation into the slumber of decline and unable to fight back Islamism with their tired, reduced ideology and beliefs. The only Western power still strong enough is America. We can and must, never disregard that one superpower because its decline has not come no matter what is said or done. It will take at least another half a century or so before we witness the gradual stagnation of America and until then, its vigor and clout is absolute.

But China is ascendant as well as India. The road ahead is fraught with potential pitfalls. China might still collapse, consumed by internal dissent or even a revival of ideology. India might be nothing more than a stillborn, brought down by the lack of infrastructure or resources to facilitate its renaissance. Nevertheless, we have the chance now.

The West caught the East at its moment of weakness for by some twist of fate, they became strong at a moment when the East experienced its cyclical low and so for once, we could not resist this erstwhile inferior civilization. But now, we must rise again.

Where does Singapore stand then? We stand at the heart of South-East Asia. To think such thoughts is dangerous but if we do not, then we risk becoming mere onlookers in the game of international politics and power.

Shit, I need food. Shall continue later.