Make Singapore Great Again?:) --- Thanks for sharing this example Christian...unfortunately, this is something we can see everywhere, especially at the time of crisis, and again, I think this has something to do with the inherit tribalism.

What I found particularly interesting here is the PM's comment "These are policies where the benefits are there but they are long term, the downsides are immediate, the side effects are visible, people react to them and we have to respond to this." which I think explains a lot - over the course of the last few decades (helped by, but not exclusively thanks to social media) we are used to instant results, gratifications, comments, likes, etc. meaning we are now living in 'right now and right here' mode much more than generations before us who were, in general, more focused on 'brighter tomorrow', i.e., long-term results.

This 'shorttermness' is a nasty trend that leads us to lose sight of the broader picture, and can explain many occurrences in the modern World that we can recognise as 'worrying'.

Source author: Andrej Skrinjaric andrejs@diplomacy.edu