AN EX-MSD CLERICAL OFFICER HAS A DIRECT APPEAL FOR LONG-AWAITED HELP

THE DIRECTOR

MILITARY SECURITY DEPARTMENT

MINISTRY OF DEFENCE

GOMBAK BASE

MINDEF BUILDING

303 GOMBAK DRIVE

(OFF UPPER BUKIT TIMAH ROAD)

SINGAPORE 669645

TELEPHONE NO.: 67683128

WEBSITE : http://www.mindef.gov.sg/

(ATTENTION : BG DAVID KOH TEE HIAN)

DEAR SIR,

RE: THE LONG, LONG, LONG NIGHTMARE :

36 YEARS OF LOST AND WASTED

LIVING, WORKING AND PLAYING

-- AS AN UNWILLING AND UNHAPPY

IMPLANTEE


PLEASE REFER TO MY UPDATED POSTING IN THIS BLOG, http://afighterandalovertoo.blogspot.com/ -- with reference to my remarkably poignant article (to this day) on my status as an unwilling and unhappy implantee -- namely, "THE FEARLESS AND INGENIOUS INDIVIDUALISTIC OPPOSITIONIST IN A SURVEILLANCE SOCIETY" (DATED 2.11.2008, SUNDAY).

I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO DRAW YOUR ATTENTION TO 3 PREVIOUS EMAILS WHICH I HAD SENT TO YOU -- NAMELY, "MY IMPLANTATION AND MY RESPONSE TO THAT GRAVE MISTAKE" (DATED 17.6.08); "MY PREDICAMENT AS AN UNWILLING AND UNHAPPY IMPLANTEE" (DATED 18.6.08); AND, LASTLY, "WHEN I'M 54" (DATED 23.6.08). I HAVE NOT RECEIVE ANY REPLY WHATSOEVER TO ANY AND ALL OF THESE 3 EMAILS FROM YOUR KIND OFFICE YET, SIR!


PLEASE READ CAREFULLY THROUGH THE ABOVE-MENTIONED UPDATED POSTING IN THIS PARTICULAR BLOG -- AND ALSO, FOR A SECOND TIME HOPEFULLY, THE URGENTLY WRITTEN 3 EMAILS THAT I HAD SENT TO YOU VERY MUCH EARLIER!

FOR YOUR INFORMATION AND NECESSARY ACTION, PLEASE.

YOURS TRULY

DAVID CHUA CHUAN SEAH

(DISSENTING WRITER: VOICE OF CONSCIENCE)

I AM NOT INDEBTED TO THE SINGAPORE GOVERNMENT

DO YOU STILL NOT

UNDERSTAND ME --

YET, GENTLEMEN?

Themes from the

Middle Kingdom:

Of Gratification; Gratefulness;

Gratuity; Gravy;

Gratuitousness;

and Sex -- And The Discerning

Non-Political Man,

The Serious and Thoughtful

Writer, The Compassionate

Human Being

and The Thinking Senior Citizen

I DECLARE:

I AM NOW -- AS I COULD NOT

BEFORE -- ABLE TO COME TO

TERMS WITH WHAT I

HAVE BECOME (AS A WELL-TUNED

AND DISCERNING LISTENER

TO BOTH CONTEMPORARY

POP MUSIC AND THE ROCK SONGS

FROM THE late 1960s

AND the 1970s)

THOUGHT-IN-PROGRESS :

WHEN A GENTLE, REFINED AND (NOW)

MANLY WRITER HAS BEEN

THROUGH SO MUCH SUFFERING AND

DEPRIVATION (AND HUMILIATION) --

FOR MORE THAN 36 YEARS NOW --

WITH MUCH EXPECTED UNHAPPINESS

AND WITH JUSTIFIED AND

JUSTIFIABLE UNWILLINGNESS

TO ACCEPT HIS OWN ALLEGED

"RESPONSIBILITY" FOR MAKING

HIMSELF INTO SUCH A VULNERABLE

VICTIM OF

SUCH AN UNACCEPTABLE

CONDITION,

PLIGHT AND PREDICAMENT --


THEN THIS IS OBVIOUSLY GOING TO SURPRISE YOU!

HERE IT GOES:

I am getting more and more :

(1) wonderful admirers;

(2) great supporters;

(3) intelligent readers;

(4) discerning guests;

(5) distinguished visitors;

(6) obliging girlfriends;

(7) open-minded female lovers;

(8) keen acquaintances;

(9) serious readers;

(10) thinking followers;

(11) loyal and true defenders;

(12) liberated women-friends;

(13) energetic lovers;

(14) inspiring helpers;

(15) much-need benefactors;

(16) bona fide bankers and financiers;

(17) geuine sympathizers;

(18) brave and kind (but foreign) magazine publishers;

(19) courageous and compassionate (but foreign) book publishers.

I am serious! On a more upbeat and positive note, when was the last time
you had spend a genuinely meaningful moment of companionship and of
conversation? Was it your time spent trying to exchange meaningful items
of information and ideas in general with someone you know? Did she
support you in your effortds to get through the day -- and night -- with
too much worries? Did she assist you in your work as a writer?

Was she grateful to you for having such an amorous, intelligent and honest
boyfriend, partner, and lover like yours truly?

Yes, We Still Need Modern(ist) Heroes (and Heroines)

MODERN HEROES AND HEROINES

NEED TO BE STUBBORN --

IF THEY WANT TO SUCCEED IN LIFE

There were few FAMOUS heroines in the world's long history. Philosphers, writers, poets, painters, architects, scientists, political leaders, industrialists, landowners, and a host of innumerable other professionals -- except probably the world's oldest (namely, prostitutes) -- were mostly men. Male heroes in the past could easily express themselves, with no social or political restrictions -- the strengths and uniqueness of their personalites and character, and the depth of their values, convictions and principles (including their loyalty to them) -- in significant and, on many occasions, influential works, efforts and endeavours. They had helped mankind to build -- and thus to travel along -- the necessary and vital roads to our common destination as human beings, living and working, as civilized men and women in more and more developed societies and polities: in other words, human progress and achievement.



In the 21st century, women have had come a long way indeed. There are now female intellectuals, politicians, engineers, technicians, scientists, managers, sports personalities, professors, academics, scholars, economists, computer analysts, computer programmers, investors, bankers, financiers, property agents, manufacturers, professional photographers, and many others who represent the undeniable progresses made by females in modern times -- through, especially, the availability 0f, and accessibility to, formal education in the schools, colleges, universities and other institutions of learning.



Such progresses in female accomplishments and efforts are achieved by those fortunate women in societies which believe in the freedom and in the rights of their citizens to pursue their education -- up to the highest possible level. So now, in addition to those occupations, fields of endeavour and professions which, traditionally, were already open to the presence and practice of (then still unemancipated) women in their ranks, back in the stupid old days -- yes, long before female emancipation and the women's liberation movement (and what has been called feminism), there are numerous examples of both women and men who are able to benefit from their many years of formal and institutional education and training -- with highly lucrative results and attractive material returns -- and also, yes, with the enviable experience of feeling a great or strong sense of personal achievement, advancement and immense satisfaction. Also, and perhaps most importantly, these women and men are able to feel proud about their contributions to the betterment of society -- and of the world, and of mankind at large.



These are our modern-day heroes and heroines -- and we need them, even in this era of postmodernism, globalization, biopolitics and the advent of modern electronic/electrical surveillance techniques, technologies and activities.



My Own Personal Misgivings, Doubts and Apprehensions --

Concerning The Path of Modern Societies and Governments:


Readers of my blog posts so far have already learnt how I view and regard such key and significant developments in human history. To put it simply, I view and regard them with repugnance and deep horror. I cannot reconcile the world I grew up in -- a world in which there were no deliberate attempts by important leaders of society and politics and industry to celebrate the so-called "virtues" of ambiguities, inconsistencies, illogicallities, ambivalences, contradictions, relativism and anti-idealism as the dominant "realities" of our modern time.



I have questioned and challenged their versions of what philosophers, throughout history, had always been in single-minded pursuit of -- namely, the TRUTH. And this is what is troubling and disturbing me: in each and every discipline that men (and now women) have been studying --be it philosphy, history, psychology, political philosophy (or political science, as it has come to be studied as nowadays), literature, the arts, public administration, sports and games, government, etc. -- there is a drastic transformation in the nature and methods in which such disciplines used to be associated and identified with. It has really turned my intellectual life -- and my world -- upside down (initially, for the majority of the past 36years , when I almost knew nothing in an effective and vital sense, and only recently, during the past few months, when I, finally and gradually, was allowed by the surveillance authorities to discover and to realise the enormity and magnitude of the not-quite-beneficial changes in my life -- as a man, human being, citizen and writer -- an unpleasant and totally unacceptable situation caused by my being unreluctantly and illegally "implanted" by the MINDEF authorities in SAFTI in the year 1972, more than 36 years ago).



What exactly are my grievances and so-called "complaints"? And what are my priorities now? It is very basic. To put it simply, I cannot remain fully and positively and fruitfully alive and still believe that my countless intellectual mentors from the West -- the great thinkers and writers who had produced innumerable timeless classics of so many diverse intellectual, moral and artistic persuasions and contents -- yes, I cannot simply and unquestioningly believe -- let alone accept -- that these great mentors of mine (my all-time HEROES and, yes, occasionally, HEROINES ) are now totally redundant, effete, irrelevant and hopelessly out-of-tune with, and out-of-place in, the so-called "realities" -- political, economic, social, cultural and scientific -- in these contemporary times, in a world that has vastly changed, almost beyond my recognition, from the world I grew up, back in the 1960s!



Unfortunately, I stand almost alone (and this long-held belief in my own isolation -- as practically demonstrated in my solitary life-style and "anti-social" behaviour during the past 36 years and more! -- as well as my publicly witnessed "weirdness" and "bizarreness" -- is itself an indication of the plight and predicament I was put in (and still am in now) -- as a result of having my intellectual faculties, especially, undermined and tampered with by the ubiquitous surveillance authorities in Singapore, since the year 1972!



So, I have to conclude (and this is my main concern now -- yes, my priority!): We still need heroes and heroines -- but they must include those men and women who, in this era of postmodernism, globalization, biopolitics and governmental mass surveillance, nevertheless still believe in the values, principles and insights provided by those heroic and unique authors in the Western intellectual and humanistic traditions.



Unless there are enough women and men who share and hold such traditional, timeless and classic modernist and even pre-modernist attitudes and ideas, there will be no place for oppositionists and individualists like me, not even to hide myself -- let alone earn a living as a professional writer! Yes, perhaps then, I should go up to the high mountains and live out the rest of my life as a recluse!

The Fearless and Ingenious Individualistic Oppositionist in A Surveillance Society

We Don't Have To Fear

Surveillance Officers:

Truth Is On Our Side


I can readily reveal ALL the facts and particulars about myself, my past and my life so far! When you have no privacy left, as we all are under electronic surveillance by the authorities, you have nothing to hide! I, for one, have absolutely nothing to hide! That's why I'm not afraid of these greedy, inept, rich and powerful censors, monitors, spies and controllers working in the faceless, nameless, unidentified and unknown surveillance groups, departments or teams that owe their allegiance and authority -- and rich salaries, of course! -- to the autocratic and authoritarian PAP Government of Singapore! Their agents, double agents, moles and spies are ubiquitous. But they don't have a public voice -- collectively or individually (except under disguises and in anonymity)!


Will these surveillance officers still tempt my fierce and merciless responses if they know EVERYTHING about my identity -- yes, about the person known as "me"? I am prepared to put my life on the line! Take it, if you can, Big Brother!


So here they are -- these attributes, facts, particulars and personal information that form my personal profile -- on yours truly and humbly, as a male heterosexual consumer, masculine citizen, manly worker, and brave human being, which, considered together as a whole personality and character, can be easily identified as the blogging individualistic oppositionist called David Chua Chuan Seah:

1. Shopping preferences: stationeries, books, magazines, groceries,
2. Health condition: in perfect health
3. Marital status: Single
4. Financial situation: Getting poorer and poorer
5. Date of birth: 30th July 1953
6. Sex/gender: male
7. Age: 55
8. Monthly/annual income: S$600.00 per month
9. Race /ethnicity: Chinese
10. Residential address: Block 264, Yishun Street 22, #10-145, Singapore 760264
11. Physical characteristics: 1.73 metres (height); 67 kilogram (weight); still good-looking
12. Family size: Bachelor (lives alone)
13. Siblings: 7 others (4 brothers; 3 sisters)
14. Handphone number: 82654077
15. Utilities consumption: electricity (S$100.oo per month); water (S$16.00 per month)
16. Magazine/newspaper preferences: Serious, quality opinion-pieces or commentaries
17. Occupation: Writer
18. Level of education: Pre-university 2 (Science)
19. Response to "money-making" opportunities: Any terms and conditions that require more discussions?
20. Constituency/ electoral district: Nee Soon East
21. Size (& type/brand) of clothes worn: XXL T-shirts (any comfortable type/brand); long pants measuring 38 inches at the waist (any comfortable and smart-looking type/brand)
22. Habits: All good ones
23. Arrest records: Twice jailed for stealing books; once for molest; and once for stealing foods
24. Lifestyle preferences: Modernist, casual, independent, multi-varied and multi-faceted
25. Hobbies: None
26. Religious affiliation: None
27. Homeownership: Owner of purchased 3-room HDB flat
28. Characteristics of residence: Not important (seriously!)
29. Mode of transport: Mass Rapid Transit and Buses
30. Type of car/vehicle owned: None
31. Characteristics of car/vehicle owned: Not applicable
32. Response to direct mail/email solicitations: None
33. Monetary contributions to political parties: None
34. Monetary contributions to religious and charitable groups: None
35. Membership in book, VCD, DVD and CD clubs: None
36. Mail/email order purchases and type: None
37. Product ownership: Electronic/electrical (refridgerator, portable CD player-cum-radio, electric fan, water-heaters; vacuum cleaner, electric rice-cooker, hair-dryer and electric kettle)
38. Pet ownership & type: None
39. Interests: Reading; writing; thinking; drumming; listening to music; meeting and chatting with girls and women (and fucking them, if they're willing)
40. Book preferences: Philosophy, History, Humanistic Psychology, Literature, Politics, & Popular Culture
41. Music/song preferences: Songs from the late Sixties (especially those by The Beatles, Neil Young and Bob Dylan) and Seventies
42. Membership of upper-class, elitist social circles/groups: None
43. Sexual preferences: Penetrative heterosexual intercourse (preferably adopting man-above and male-dominant penetrative sexual intercourse positions)
44. Political views and beliefs: libertarianism and liberalism
45. NRIC No.: S0028486F
46. Name/nickname/alias: Chua Chuan Seah/David/Nikos
47. Language/dialect understood: Mandarin and English/Hokkien and Cantonese
48. Email address: chua.chuanseah4@gmail.com; cschua57@yahoo.com.sg
49. Website address: http://afighterandalovertoo.blogspot.com/; http://thenon-romanticloverandwriter.blogspot.com/ ; http://trainofmypresence.blogspot.com/; http://wholecity.blogspot.com/
50. Employment history: Serious full-time writer of quality essays/articles and sometimes not-so-serious part-time and temporary worker (1976 -- 2008)
51. National service records: Completed two-and-a-half years (1971 -- 1974) in the SAF; reservist rank: Senior Corporal (civil defence)
52. Countries visited: Taiwan, Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand
53. Countries I intend to visit: England, U.S., Switzerland, Sweden, South Korea, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Holland, Japan, Italy, China, Germany, France, Canada and Australia

PERSONAL NOTES ON THE LOCATION

OF THE HEADQUARTERS OF

MILITARY SECURITY DEPARTMENT (MSD)

IN MINDEF

AND ON OTHER RELATED PARTICULARS :

(1) LOCATION OF MILITARY SECURITY

DEPARTMENT (MSD) :

MINISTRY OF DEFENCE,

GOMBAK BASE,

MINDEF BUILDING,

GOMBAK DRIVE,

SINGAPORE.

TEL. NO.: 67683128

WEBSITE : www.mindef.gov.sg

(2) WITH MY UNINTENDED MINIMAL EXPOSURE OF THEIR IDENTITIES, THE NAMES (AND THEIR OFFICIAL POSITIONS) OF THE FOLLOWING GOVERNMENT OFFICERS AND SUBORDINATE PERSONNEL, WHO WERE KNOWN TO ME AS MY FELLOW COLLEAGUES WHEN I WAS EMPLOYED AT MILITARY SECURITY DEPARTMENT (BETWEEN DECEMBER 1975 AND OCTOBER 1976) ARE TRUE, CORRECT, ACCURATE AND APPLICABLE ONLY WITH REFERENCE TO THAT PARTICULAR PERIOD OF TIME. CURRENTLY, I HAVE NO ACCESS WHATSOEVER TO, OR CLEAR KNOWLEDGE OF, THE ACTUAL OR CURRENT STATUS OR POSITIONS OF THESE (FORMER?) MSD OFFICERS AND PERSONNEL -- IN TERMS OF ACCURACY, CORRECTNESS AND ACCOUNTABILITY.

The ABOVE-MENTIONED names are some of the ubiquitous "Voices" that belong to those "able" and "good" men and women whose "work" daily consists of bombarding me (and "disruptive", "unruly", "insubordinate" and "ill-disciplined" people like us) with their irritating, "loving" and intrusive remarks, comments and chatterings from their base at their TOP SECRET remote and far-away long-distance location at Bukit Gombak in Bukit Timah, Singapore -- exercising their continuous so-called "self-defence routine" of propagating PAP ideology and of ensuring and perpetuating the PAP's hold onto power over us, the poor, helpless, and unfortunate victimised citizens (even though we have, in the past, NEVER given them our unreserved consent or permission to be put under such close minute-by-minute, day-by-day and life-long electronic long-distance "authoritative" group surveillance) :

DAVID KOH TEE HIAN (BRIGADIER- GENERAL) -- THE CURRENT DIRECTOR, MSD;

1. Phyllis Balakrishnan -- CLERICAL OFFICER (1976);
2. Melinda Chew -- CLERICAL OFFICER (1976);
3. Nancy Lim -- PERSONAL ASSISTANT TO DEPUTY HEAD (1976);
4. Ms Lum -- CLERK (1976);
5. Ms Oh -- CLERK (1976);
6. Ms Catherine -- CLERK (1976);
7. Ms Irene Fong -- HEAD, MSD REGISTRY (1976);
8. David Ong -- INVESTIGATION OFFICER (1976);
9. Lta. Ang -- INVESTIGATION OFFICER (1976);
10. (Name Yet To Be Recalled) -- HEAD, VETTING SECTION (1976);
11. S. Arumugam -- DEPUTY HEAD, MSD (1976);
12. Mr Wang Ah Shih -- HEAD, MSD (1976);
13. CAPTAIN (1976) Tan Hong Huat -- RETIRED COLONEL AND CURRENT DIRECTOR OF TOP SECRET PROJECT THAT TARGETTED ME AS A VICTIM OF IMPLANTATION;
14. Mr Lee -- INVESTIGATION OFFICER (1976).

MY DEPARTING COMMENT:

I'm going to be -- yes, I'll continue to be -- a confident and resourceful (and long-haired) liberated, liberal and libertarian writer-intellectual. And that's fine by me!

These cunning and manipulative surveillance officers, pretending to "help" me, finally (after 36 years of victimization and manipulation by them?), achieve my much-desired success as a writer of published (i.e. printed) books (of collected essays) -- and also as a lover of the females among them in the TOP SECRET control room, are now working on -- well, they keep trying to learn -- how to finally turn me into an absolutely isolated, controlled and brainwashed subject -- as opposed to my current status as an unrepentant critic of the PAP Government (and especially, of LKY)!

Their "productive" efforts, time spent and resources used will all be in vain! I am sure of that!

My Recent Times And Experiences With Various Asian Beauties -- As An Oppositionist and Critic of the Surveillance Authorities

My Overdue "Sexual" Contacts

(Countless!), Social Relations

(Countless!) and Penetrative Sexual

Intercourse Sessions --

With Good (!) Women and Girls

( From 28th June 2008

To 29th October 2008) :

1. 28.6.08 (Sat.) -- With "Fei Fei" (young, cheerful & lovely); satisfaction: 100% !;
2. 20.7.08 (Sun.) -- With "Yeh" (attractive); satisfaction: 80% !;
3. 30.7.08 (Wed.) -- With "Fung Fung" (mischievous but loving); satisfaction: 50% !;
4. 13.9.08 (Sat.) -- With "Yan" (25, cheerful, pretty, Indonesian); satisfaction: 90% !;
5. 19.9.08 (Fri.) -- With "Huey Bin" (young, cheerful & beautiful); satisfaction: 90% !;
6. 20.9.08 (Sat.) -- With "Jenny" (mercenary but totally obliging); satisfaction: 70% !;
7. 21.9.08 (Sun.) -- With "Xiao Fung" (simply, adorably lovely); satisfaction: 100% !!!;
8. 27.9.08 (Sat.) -- With "Xiao Chang" (loving & lovely); satisfaction: 100% !;
9. 29.9.08 (Mon.) -- With "Linda" (pretty); 90% !;
10. 1.10.08 (Wed.) -- With "Hantu" (pretty, sexy and, yes!, money-minded!); satisfaction: 55% !;
11. 19.10.08 (Sun.) -- With "Xuan Xuan" (22, attractive, charming, loving, irrepressible, responsive, interested, sexy, amiable, companionable, considerate, sociable, friendly, genial,helpful, kind, obliging and solicitous; terrific!); satisfaction: 100% !;
12. 22.10.08 (Wed.) -- With "Xuan Xuan" (again! -- still charming, loving, irrepressible and passionate; lots of foreplay; wonderful!); satisfaction: 100% !;
13. 29.10.08 (Wed.) -- With "Xuan Xuan" (yes, once again! -- my darling lover, new-found girlfriend, honey and babe! I love her with all my heart, soul, mind and body! My major success in my love, sex and social life after 36 years of being under governmental surveillance and manipulation! Rock on, Sweetie!); satisfaction: 160% !!!!!!!

COMMENTARY:

The PAP bastards think I can't stop THEM from undermining and spoiling my love, sex and social life -- probably due to the fact that I can't see them in person! But really, I don't give them a fucking recognition or acknowledgement!

So I don't bother about these surveillance officers. I know the PAP's TOP SECRET! Openly and publicly! It is: Domination Over Its Subjects! I just do what I please! All it takes is for someone I trust to enhance my life -- sexually and hence intellectually. Yes, this is how I live my life on my own terms and conditions -- as a reluctant "implantee", an "agent", a critic, a writer, a "schizophrenic", a "pervert", a lover, a "molester", a "prisoner", a blogger and a socio-political commentator and essayist. And I just need the perfect accompaniment -- a nice, pretty girl whom I love with all my heart, soul, mind, and body -- for such a multi-various life. And do you know who that lucky girl might be? Well, she is my latest girlfriend and lover, Kelly. I, an individualist, feel lucky to have met Kelly. Say good luck to me -- for I am under surveillance by the authorities and my rights as a man, writer, citizen and human being are being infringed upon and cruelly violated by these ubiquitous authorities. I, too, am an ordinary human being after all: I need conveniences, accessibilities, accommodation, advantages, amenities, appliances, appropriateness, availability, benefits, chances, comfort, ease, enjoyment, facilities, fitness, handiness, help, leisure, opportuneness, opportunities, satisfaction, services, serviceability, suitability, timeliness, uses, usefulness and utilities!

Nowadays, I'm in greater control of my life and personal being and my career as a writer is in ascendancy! (Yes! Yes!)

I'm loving, responsible, liberated, natural, versatile, provocative, sensual, quiet, commanding, attentive, modern, notable, intriguing, ingenious, captivating, deep, mysterious, daring, confident, friendly (except to the MSD/PAP officers), honest, wild (sometimes!), resourceful, cultivated, well-read, high-brow (most of the time), low-brow (sometimes), handsome (still!), individualistic, sexy, manly, notorious, sincere, bold, assertive, independent, sharp-minded, intelligent, thoughtful, intuitive, forceful, self-educated (mostly) and, yes, FREE (determinedly, insistently, persistently and potently!). I am the star in my own blogs -- for I write not as a team of group-thinking composite bloggers but only (and only) as myself, an independent authorial voice (of reason and compassion).

I'm getting poorer and poorer in my finances; but I'm becoming richer and richer in my mind. I'm more powerful now as a writer, citizen-leader and critic. The PAP bastards can torture me in any way they want. But as long as I am alive, I will always be an oppositionist (in this post-modernist, globalized world), a writer and critic who loves women and girls (especially when they are pretty and shapely)!

If there is only one idea of freedom, and only one, then the PAP will win! But the PAP has not won, not yet! If it has, then it would not repeat this word "freedom" over and over, again and again! It wants to, with such repetition, change not only people's minds but also their very BRAINS!

If the PAP has succeeded in getting its own version or idea of "freedom" into the BRAIN of every Singapore citizen, then it could simply have taken freedom -- as it has defined it -- for granted! Did it? Does the PAP still? Even today?

QUOTES FOR THE TIMES:

Deprivation and impotence sanctify the "mindless", the most humble!

-- George Steiner, ERRATA: AN EXAMINED LIFE (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1997)

Untold personal destitution, ridicule, isolation, obscurity, not to speak of persecution on ideological-political grounds, has attended on the production of great art, literature or philosophic investigation....the evidences of suffering and solitude remain overwhelming. In the midst of the inhumanity and indifference of history; a handful of men and women have been creatively possessed by the compelling splendour of the "useless"! This constitutes the eminent dignity, the "princeliness" of our "brutal" kind.

-- George Steiner, ibid

None are more enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

-- Goethe

But who will guard the guardians themselves?

-- Juvenal (c. 60 -- 130 AD)

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

-- Edmund Burke (1729 -- 1797)

Five Facts On Modernism

There and Then

1. Modernism adopted adversarial stance toeards the postmodern world by making powerful critical statements about postmodern society;
2. Modernism achieved genuine quality--as in avant-garde literature--by aiming for the highest order (of purity and autonomy) in writing and self=expression;
3. Modernist literature opposed capitalism;
4. The so-called "death of the author" in literature was regarded by modernism as excessively anti-historical and asocial;
5. The proper understanding of a text is impossible without knowing something about the "who, where, and when" of it.

Bizarre Odyssey: My Life As A Man Controlled By The Network's Core Group of Power-Players

Which Side Am I On?

(You Know Which Side!)


The only possible redemption for me from this gruesome and still unconcluded chapter of my life seems to be escaping the boredom--at whatever cost--in this authoritarian and autocratic, yes, totalitarian society (in which nothing is left to chance and nothing is what it seems).

To survive within and against this system--the nameless and faceless but all-present authorities--which are allied to an insidious, chilling and mysterious organisation of sometimes silent and sometimes vocal but usually always listening voices (but which is not an exclusive association, for its membership is also open to those who can "hear" and "speak"!).

The Network! It is everything! The company, the goal, the structure--none of that counts! The important thing is always the way the company ("exotic" indeed!) relates to the system, which uses the most draconian and invasive secret police in the world!

My rebellion and strategy for survival is a calculated carefulness (as opposed to one of calculated carelessness).

For instance, I remain reticent--with, still, the same aim of defying logic and of bewildering people.

I make these stooges believe that I control secret links to which they have no access.

Out of the sheer boredom of a hopeless situation, I embark on the dangerous and futile quest of clearing up my boring/messy life--since 1972!

I am hungry for any truth that might/may survive a struggle with the authorities.

The complicity that the PAP regime imposed, directly and indirectly, on all its subjects!

Duplicity became the disease of the entire country, both at the Party apparatus level and at the level of the masses (who used duplicity for their survival)!

Emotional compromises? Complicity with (or resistance to) the authorities?

Once they are said, lies take their revenge. Lies come true. They become reality. And that's the ultimate truth!

(Reality is not the ultimate truth! A "mad" society--without principles!)

The MADHOUSE has not only corrupted its language but also the innermost psyches of its subjects. The rot is deep. There are few foundations left upon which to rebuild.