Logicless Logic

and this is when preconceived genius comes into play . [I am a robot. You are a robot.]

And so here come the March holidays. A weeklong holiday which occurs in March, long enough to damage your brain but not long enough to do so permantly. It is probably supposed to let one ponder over their extremely poor CA results because CAs occur right after Chinese New Year and there is technically no way of getting good results. But people don't do that. They usually spend the whole time playing or doing basically anything other than study or think about results. Especially when they haven't gotten it back. This is also a period when the brain becomes too lazy to think. And when this preconceived idea hiding somewhere within the deepest recesses of my brain as lost as the Hanging Gardens of Babylon emerge, finally seen after more than 2000 years.

This idea came up during GP, a period of active discussion where the brain takes an hour long break. That particular GP lesson was about something I don't particularly remember but it had something to do about Singaporeans living in an artificially created environment. An air-conditioned nation. So me being me thought that it was similar to World State in "Brave New World" by Huxley, which I never read. So Singaporeans are preconditioned to fit in the mechanism of our little tiny island state and help push its efficiency and turn it into one of the whatever our leader has in mind. And this is really and irony.

First of all, by encouraging this mechanical efficiency, individualism and creativity is stifled. Efficiency gets things done but it also promotes stasis. There are no fresh ideas, no breakthroughs. Everything is a routine. I realise that our leaders have realised it. So they try to change it. They try to unrobotise Singaporeans, you, me, him, her, that uncle who smokes 20 sticks of cigarettes and gulps down whiskey while complaining of a sore throat and that auntie who bargains to get another 5 cents off that bunch of towgay in Tiong Bahru Market.

This is done by encouraging creativity. "Think outside the box" is the new mantra, among many new mantras. I believe it is a little incomplete, like a Backstreet Boys song. I think it should go something like "Think outside the box, but within the circle in the box."[phrase kindly donated by Zixiang] Whatever that means I do not know. It probably means confusion, which is what it is anyway.

And so we go on living on our nice little island-garden-city-state like the inhabitants of the matrix, which I compare to us because of the preconditioned environment. There is not much link but there isn't much link in this entire post anyway. How I came up with this during GP is as lost as some other idea I came up during GP and as hidden as the tomb of Alexander the Great. Thank you very much.

justin.

posted by justin @ 2:38 AM