What is meritocratic individualism?
In many instances, there is still confusion as to what meritocracy is and what it entails. The passage below helps place this idea in the capitalist context to which it belongs. The ideology of meritocracy is always about ‘I-me-mine’ and hardly ever about ‘you-we-ours’. It is the kind of blinkered perspective and way...
The xenophobia of bureaucrats (aka NParks)
Apparently there is a potential spanner in the works for organizers of the upcoming May Day protest in Hong Lim Park: Foreigners are not allowed to take part or someone is going to have to answer for it. That is, of course, unless the police give a permit to allow said foreigners to be participants at such events. But the...
The need to always question and think independently
One of the main things that attract people to various mediums of exchange, be it forums in the mainstream media or alternate ones, is to read not only what is of interest, but what one tends to be in agreement with. Views that are diametrically opposed to the tenor of a site may not always receive much support, and in some...
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