efficient. safe. protected. controlled. a utopian city-state run like a multinational company. welcome to singapore incorporated. this beautiful world felt the cool rain on my shoulder found something good in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder shchlt ah la la la la sha la la la singapore. one could be forgiven for thinking it s a giant, ultramodern shopping mall. an interconnected, fully wired, air-conditioned nanny state, where everything is beautiful and nothing hurts. and those things are kind of true, especially if you read the papers or the carefully monitored internet. you look around the litterless streets where everything seems to work just fine, just fine. and you think, or you could be forgiven for thinking, gee, maybe a one-party system is just what we need. you look at all the social problems and ethnic strife, street crime, drugs that singapore has managed to avoid, and you could think, is this the life we want? it ain t my sy
the asians did not invent them. it shouldn t work. it hasn t really worked like this anywhere else, and yet it works. i think that my objection or my discomfort with the lack of democratic freedoms is that i think we can allow a lot more of that without hurting singapore s prosperity and stability one ounce. right. what would we lose if we had a freer press? what would we lose if we had more democratic or opposition representation? and we ll make for not just a more livelier debate, we ll make for a better debate. we may well arrive at the conclusion that the current dispensation, the current order represents the best possible society for singapore, but let s have that debate. i mean, it s a horrifying thought. it s possible that the human mind, that the average citizen cannot deal with that much diversity, that we need these curbs and restrictions on our freedoms.
do you think that the singaporean success story is a rebuke to american and western values in some respect? donald: no, no. anthony: i mean, is free speech overrated? donald: i don t think we succeeded because the absence of free speech. anthony: it s a fact, though. donald: the values of free trade, the values of a liberal global order, these are western ideas. i mean, singapore did not invent them. the asian did not. anthony: i mean, look, it shouldn t work. it hasn t really worked like this anywhere else. and yet, it works. donald: i think my objection or my discomfort with the lack of democratic freedoms is that i think we cannot allow a lot more without hurting singapore s prosperity, it s stability, one ounce. what will we lose if we had a free uprise? what would we lose if we had more democratic opposition
do you think that the singaporean success story is a rebuke to american and western values in some respect? donald: no, no. anthony: i mean, is free speech overrated? donald: i don t think we succeeded because the absence of free speech. anthony: it s a fact, though. donald: the values of free trade, the values of a liberal global order, these are western ideas. i mean, singapore did not invent them. the asian did not. anthony: i mean, look, it shouldn t work. it hasn t really worked like this anywhere else. and yet, it works. donald: i think my objection or my discomfort with the lack of democratic freedoms is that i think we cannot allow a lot more without hurting singapore s prosperity, it s stability, one ounce. what will we lose if we had a free uprise? what would we lose if we had more democratic opposition representation? it would make for not only a livelier debate, it would make for a better debate.
accept curbs on their freedom and civil liberties. do you think that the singaporean success story is a rebuke to american and western values in some respect? donald: no, no. anthony: i mean, is free speech overrated? donald: i don t think we succeeded because the absence of free speech. anthony: it s a fact, though. donald: the values of free trade, the values of a liberal global order, these are western ideas. i mean, singapore did not invent them. the asian did not. anthony: i mean, look, it shouldn t work. it hasn t really worked like this anywhere else. and yet, it works. donald: i think my objection or my discomfort with the lack of democratic freedoms is that i think we cannot allow a lot more without hurting singapore s prosperity, its stability, one ounce. what will we lose if we had a free uprise? what would we lose if we had more democratic opposition representation? it would make