‘Sustainable Cognitive Dissonance’: The US is a developed country but Singapore is not. Remaining developing is a sustainable strategy to financially contribute less. ???
‘Sustainable Cognitive Dissonance’:
The US is a developed country but Singapore is not.
Remaining developing is a sustainable strategy to financially contribute less. ???
We have F35s. We have expensive air force training bases in the US. Our income per capita is higher than that of the US and many developed countries.
And yet, we want to remain a developing state. Perhaps, we want to contribute less financially. Not only that, we have developed a sustainable strategy to remain poor. The US has no objection as long as we continue to buy expensive weapons and spend money there. A country can remain poor or pretend to be poor as far as they make contributions to the US.
This unusual sustainable cognitive dissonance is not only applicable to the Paris Agreement of climate change. It is also the practice of the government towards Singaporeans. When you want them to spend more to help the poor, the disadvantaged people, they will warn you ‘not to leave debts to future generations’.
When you complain about cost of living, housing prices, rentals, medical expenses etc, the government will say it is affordable. If you further your complaint, they will define you as politically opportunistic, populistic.
We see so much bad news about the US and too much good news about Singapore, we are really in a stage of cognitive dissonance. What is the meaning of developed or developing country? Who is playing the game of populistic politics?
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