Friends from abroad often ask me for suggested readings re: Lee Kuan Yew. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I recommend starting by reading The Art Of Charlie Chan Hock Chye<\/a>, which isn’t directly about Lee Kuan Yew \u2013 but it’s a story set in Singapore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I’ve also recommended watching this video of talking about the 1980 SIA pilot’s strike<\/a>\u00a0[2:09].<\/p>\n\n\n\n I have a list of quotes<\/a> that caught my attention when I was reading Hard Truths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAll you have to do is to dissolve organizations and societies and banish and detain the key political workers in these societies. Then miraculously everything is tranquil on the surface. Then an intimidated press and the government-controlled radio together can regularly sing your praises, and slowly and steadily the people are made to forget the evil things that have already been done, or if these things are referred to again they\u2019re conveniently distorted and distorted with impunity, because there will be no opposition to contradict.\u201d \u2014 Lee Kuan Yew as an opposition PAP member speaking to David Marshall, Singapore Legislative Assembly, Debates, 4 October, 1956<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWell you know I get a lot of demonstrations in Singapore, my students are quite a rambunctious and spirited lot \u2013 and I think they OUGHT to be, otherwise I think there\u2019s very little future for Singapore. It\u2019s a young community and the young MUST be idealistic, the young MUST believe that the world should be more just, and there should be more moral rectitude in the behavior of their leaders.<\/strong> And they protest, often in more than just a peaceful manner, because the communist slip into my demonstrations, and you know \u2013 and windows get broken so often, and cars get overturned. At the end of the day I think decisions have got to be made by adults, not teenagers. But it\u2019s got got to be made in such a way that when the teenagers become adults, and they look back on these decisions, they would be proud of the generation that went before them.\u201d \u2013 LKY to American reporters in 1967 [source<\/a> \u2013 jump to 15m]<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Friends from abroad often ask me for suggested readings re: Lee Kuan Yew. I recommend starting by reading The Art Of Charlie Chan Hock Chye, which isn’t directly about Lee Kuan Yew \u2013 but it’s a story set in Singapore. I’ve also recommended watching this video of talking about the… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[813],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-sg"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5gxNz-lky","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14674,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions\/14674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}