tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8081742307252789733.post1249768351133320432..comments2024-02-14T04:53:18.295-08:00Comments on Singapore Dissident: Singapore on the declineGopalan Nairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15399145588654603667noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8081742307252789733.post-66978012506885627842010-09-06T06:48:58.201-07:002010-09-06T06:48:58.201-07:00Strutting and unbridled arrogance is all well and ...Strutting and unbridled arrogance is all well and good when you had absolute control of all media, as Lee did until the coming of the Internet. Now it's plain for all to see that the emperor is paddling naked and the tide has gone out. What a truly bizarre, Kafka-esque state he has made of a once pleasant little island - all shiny chrome and glass outside and mud floors, pain and fear and anger inside its people's hearts. It will take generations to undo PAP's handiwork when they are finally toppled.<br /><br />All we need do is look at the scientific evidence and the outcome of squashing 6.5 MILLION or more bodies into 700 sq. km is frighteningly predictable. The late Dr. John B. Calhoun demonstrated in his famous paper: “Population Density and Social Pathology” that <b>as population density increased, social behaviour degenerated.</b><br /><br />Among other findings, he developed the concept of universal autism -- in which all members of the last generation of mice in an increasingly crowded environment are INCAPABLE of the social behaviour that would allow them to produce the next generation.<br /><br /><i>In one of Dr. Calhoun's experiments, a square steel box, nine feet on each side, contained 2,600 mice, about 16 times what would be considered normal density. He determined that rodents rapidly developed a hierarchy when thrown together in such huge numbers, with those closest to the food supply growing most rapidly and, because of their size, assuming higher social status...<br /><br />'Calhoun described his experimental universes as “rat utopia,” “mouse paradise.”<br /><br />With all their visible needs met, the animals bred rapidly. The only restriction Calhoun imposed on his population was of SPACE – and as the population grew, this became increasingly problematic. As the pens heaved with animals, one of his assistants described rodent “utopia” as having become “hell” (Marsden 1972).<br /><br />Dominant males became aggressive, some moving in groups, attacking females and the young. Mating behaviours were disrupted. Some became exclusively homosexual. Others became pansexual and hypersexual, attempting to mount any rat they encountered. <br /><br />Mothers neglected their infants, first failing to construct proper nests, and then carelessly abandoning and even attacking their pups. In certain sections of the pens, infant mortality rose as high as 96%, the dead cannibalized by adults. Subordinate animals withdrew psychologically, surviving in a physical sense but at an immense psychological cost. They were the majority in the late phases of growth, existing as <b>a vacant, huddled mass</b> in the centre of the pens.<br /><br />Unable to breed, <b>the population plummeted and did not recover.</b> The crowded rodents had lost the ability to co-exist harmoniously, even after the population numbers once again fell to low levels. At a certain density, they had ceased to act like rats and mice, and the change was permanent'</i><br /><br />We are human beings not rats nor mice but nevertheless we are still subject to the laws of natural evolution. Note the parallel with increasing reports of more than 1 suicide per day, animal cruelty, maid abuse, and neglect of children and the elderly as the family unit breaks down under unbearable stress in Singapore. <br /><br />We are now the 3rd most crowded place on earth. Lee & Co. are actually insane enough to try to make us No.1 in pursuit of GDP glory. Imagine that, we are, at this very moment, more overcrowded than any city in India or China or almost anywhere in the world you care to name! There has never been any explanation for how this nightmare 6.5m figure came to become a holy grail. After that then.....what? Unless Singaporeans rouse themselves from their stupor soon, they and their families will find themselves sleepwalking into Calhoun's macabre rat hell. Becoming a maid in a foreign country will seem like paradise then.mycroftnoreply@blogger.com