Friday, February 6, 2015

Such Irreverence!

Be prepared this year for all manner of veneration of the founding father, mostly in new books, on top of the movie in the making. Two publications are obviously are not of the same genre.

The author of  "Roll Out the Champagne, Singapore!" (Marshall Cavendish Editions, 2014) once incurred the displeasure of some thin-skinned individuals who lashed out at the poor thing for being "bo tua bo say", an awful rebuke implying a lack of respect for anyone in authority. What surprised her was a friend who sent her to coventry ("How can you be so irreverent?") for penning the following rib-tickler:
The coffin was enormous
To match the god-like status,
For both in life and death,
He was a true colossus.

Someone who, with the opposition
Was clearly in cahoots,
Whispered, 'Ah, a new dawn!
No more defamation suits.'

At which the corpse sprang right up,
'Who said that?' it roared,
'He's defaming my good name,
So get our lawyers on board!'

The cartoonist with the dubious association with a sketch that supposedly led to closure of the Singapore Herald in 1971 has produced a coffee table book compilation ("LKY: Political Cartoons", Epigram Books, 2014) of his best satirical pieces. The foreward reads, "Lee's near mythical status became fodder for his creative imagination and incisive pen." Such irreverence!


10 comments:

  1. By a respectable Ex-Morgan Stanley economist who has, of course, lost his job after speaking the inconvenient hard truths.

    //At a dinner party hosted by Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, ``people fawned him like a prince,'' Xie wrote. ``These Western people didn't know what they were talking about,'' he wrote, describing the praise for Singapore as ``nauseating pleasantries.''

    http://www.asiasentinel.com/econ-business/a-banking-stars-inconvenient-singaporean-truth/

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  2. People know that PAP bootstrapped onto SG50 name in order to bamboozle people with their ersatz version in economics. We liken it to The Bank of Sweden grabbed onto the Nobel Prize name in 1968 as a bit of marketing ploy for Sweden's 300th anniversary, in order to promulgate an awful economic theory if you knew the history of how it came about.

    Is the ruse working? . LKY and PAP are promoted into respectability. Of course, it took wealth(mainly from the people) and political power to cement the ideological success" but the fake accolades and celebration in the name of SG50 is getting it rolling along nicely, they think. Just in time for that warm fuzzy feelings for the unaware voters to put votes to seal their power for another 5 years.

    Why do people bother to read when ST and CNA state news have already made up their minds for them?

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    1. I do not feel any excitment over SG50. Why?

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  3. Lolx!

    REVELATION OF WORKING WITH JAPANESE IMPERIAL ARMY IN WWII HISTORY HAS WIPED OUT WHATEVER GOOD NAMES THAT HAD BEEN GIVEN IN THE PAST.

    NO ONE DESCRIBED AS TRAITOR AND BETRAYOR CAN EVER LIVE OR REST IN PEACE. NEITHER CAN THE SUCCESSORS AND THEIR FUTURE GENERATIONS EVER LIVE WITHOUT SHAME.

    LAMENTABLE
    patriot.

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    1. Gah.. I hit the wrong button. Would you mind elaborating about this?

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  4. Would you mind elaborating about this?

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  5. Those interested in the Informations about relationships of Japanese Imperial Army can google lee kuan yew, nathan and Japanese Imperial Army. There are much informations there.

    patriot

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  6. The penultimate panel of the cartoon strip is missing - that of someone crawling out of the coffin to attend NDP.........

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  7. Well at least they did not intend plasticise LKY like Lenin and put him on display in some way out public place...and on special days like NDP show to the whole world...that will be beyond insanity.

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