Thought-provoking stuff.

[nyankoframe]

Found this while going through sg_ljers out of some boredom:

On Transparency within the Education System

It's something that I can relate to as I've horror stories from others. However, I don't entirely agree with the second-last paragraph in the letter, as i don't necessarily think a better opposition (even if it was significantly better than the status quo) would benefit much.

Why do I say this? Most people today have grown up in an atmosphere / political culture of "government knows best", and since they've been exposed to this idea for such a long time, they've come to depend on the culture remaining the same. So if it suddenly changes (for example, when a credible opposition emerges), people can't adapt to that change and will refuse to work with the opposition.

People who leave the country because they're fed up with the situation here are free to do whatever they want, but their leaving doesn't really make the situation any better. All it does is (IMO) open them up to accusations of being opportunistic and other such name-calling, which really beneifts no one.

This kind of attitude does smack of the defeatism that the letter-writer was talking about, but I really don't know what a viable alternative could be.

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[(Anonymous)]

And the writer is really stupid to think that a stronger opposition will emerge, because the current policy of casting the net out to trawl in the best and the brightest will ensure that (a) the best and the brightest continue to be collected by the current government (which is good in itself, at least in theory) and (b) the public perception is that the opposition continues to be inferior, cemented only by the stupid antics of people like CSJ and that Gomez guy.


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