Saturday, October 21, 2006

L337

I am elitist. I believe those in the elite circles (no inverted commas) are better than those outside, not because they are naturally smarter, but generally because those who are there made it there on something, and they do deserve some recognition, more so than the general populace. So don't complain that the elite schools get more money etc. They actually deserve it.

Xinrui showed me an article about some guy called Derek Wee, who wrote something about how people become redundant to society once they reach 40, and was complaining about lack of incentive and blaming the govt etc. Apparently a senior of mine commented on her blog about him and basically called him an idiot. I agree with her. Link is HERE.

Basically that's the guy's article and her blog post. Won't bother summarising, but basically i'll add my point on it. Derek's argument that people become reduandant once they reach 40 is supported by evidence of taxi drivers. And erm, because he met a couple of taxi drivers who got retrenched and couldn't find jobs, says that everyone becomes obsolete at 40.

... I dunno about you guys, but i can easily name 10 people (not even related to the government!) that still hold good steady jobs over the age of 40. So please don't take your taxi drivers as case study for the whole populace.

So anyway my senior's article is now apparently being branded EXTREMELY ELITIST (EE lol) and erm... is getting alot of flaming. She's some MP's daughter too, which adds a nice ironic effect. Anyway she basically says (ok fine i have to summarise) that just because he feels that he's going to turn useless at 40, doesn't imply that everyone else is. The funny part was that there were acutally lots of people that agreed with Derek's article, even though it was never published in the ST. (Derek Fans say it's because the govt doesn't want his 'all-too-true views' getting out to public, my senior says it's probably because his english sucks.) No prizes for guessing who I agree with. In fact, i think any article not in proper english should be automatically dismissed from anybody's concern. Like that my one no need read liao la.

Ironically enough, i don't think elitism is something the upper class invented from themselves. Elitism in my opinion starts from the segregation of certain people, because of social stereotypes, and all that crap. I get really annoyed when people go "Wah you from RJ ah. Must be damn smart lor" etc. When in actual fact we're really no different from the rest of you people. Except maybe for the fact that we do use our brains for something more useful. It's the mentality however, that people have about us, which we eventually accept for ourselves. So don't blame us for being elitist.

Moca wrote @ 12:38 AM