Don't let life kick you in the balls
During the past couple of weeks, the furore in local blogosphere was about an elitist babe hurling uncaring remarks at a 35-year “loser”. One of my buddies who read my blog posts frequently, was not sure of the going-ons. He was asking me, put something in your blog, something that could describe the entire issue in one post so that he could breeze through….here it is. My version…
It all started with Mr Derek Wee, a 35-year old regular guy who wrote in his blog….regular topics like the influx of foreign talent, about older workers – the fortysomething & above, about having kids, and other real-time issues…he led a cry for the Government to hear us, people from the lower rungs, the working class and to understand our problems. I can’t say he was the Voice or our regular working class hero. But, he did strike a chord among many of us. I was the first few to congratulate him for the article, which incidentally, echoes my thoughts too.
Not long after, an elitist babe wrote on her blog (it has since been shut down), launching a fierce broadside at our darling. It was outright brazenly bigotry at its very best. It sure was strong words, mama. Her tough talking led to strong responses. She ranted and got out-ranted. Her father, a MP from some GRC came out and apologises twice.
His apologises came out like that, “if you cut through the insensitivity of the language, her basic point is reasonable” and her dad mitigated further, with “some people cannot take the brutal truth and that sort of language, so she sought to learn from it”. Okay lah. Apologises or damage control, it comes across quite like the same.
I reckon the brutal truth is that what Derek Wee, wrote in his blog, are the absolute brutal truth. So, many bloggers might have felt that a caste system actually exists here...the uncaring elites (Brahmins) and the working class, the Derek Wees (Dalits).
My advice for any young elitist who thinks of those whining peasants who could not measure up in the workforce, think again. Have you stepped into the working world yet? If only you could get off your cocoon of privileged smugness, please. My final plea to those young, spoilt brats…stay humble. No matter what you are, top scholars, elitists, the noveau riche, the immortables or the infallibles, please be humble. It pays to be so.
Barring a few exceptions, i dare say, most elites may never resonate with the working class or the lower crass. I am sure, it's as sure as life, death and taxes. Enough said and ranted... let's move on.
It all started with Mr Derek Wee, a 35-year old regular guy who wrote in his blog….regular topics like the influx of foreign talent, about older workers – the fortysomething & above, about having kids, and other real-time issues…he led a cry for the Government to hear us, people from the lower rungs, the working class and to understand our problems. I can’t say he was the Voice or our regular working class hero. But, he did strike a chord among many of us. I was the first few to congratulate him for the article, which incidentally, echoes my thoughts too.
Not long after, an elitist babe wrote on her blog (it has since been shut down), launching a fierce broadside at our darling. It was outright brazenly bigotry at its very best. It sure was strong words, mama. Her tough talking led to strong responses. She ranted and got out-ranted. Her father, a MP from some GRC came out and apologises twice.
His apologises came out like that, “if you cut through the insensitivity of the language, her basic point is reasonable” and her dad mitigated further, with “some people cannot take the brutal truth and that sort of language, so she sought to learn from it”. Okay lah. Apologises or damage control, it comes across quite like the same.
I reckon the brutal truth is that what Derek Wee, wrote in his blog, are the absolute brutal truth. So, many bloggers might have felt that a caste system actually exists here...the uncaring elites (Brahmins) and the working class, the Derek Wees (Dalits).
My advice for any young elitist who thinks of those whining peasants who could not measure up in the workforce, think again. Have you stepped into the working world yet? If only you could get off your cocoon of privileged smugness, please. My final plea to those young, spoilt brats…stay humble. No matter what you are, top scholars, elitists, the noveau riche, the immortables or the infallibles, please be humble. It pays to be so.
Barring a few exceptions, i dare say, most elites may never resonate with the working class or the lower crass. I am sure, it's as sure as life, death and taxes. Enough said and ranted... let's move on.
posted by The Quiet Stone at 12:26 AM
2 Comments:
Very good.Humble is the best word to finish it. The elite girl seem very proud.If she doesn't learn, then one day when she is forty, her husband will dump her for a young girl.Maybe she will learn the hard way.Pride before destruction. I found her to be full of herself and crap.
Though I had never read her post, I can sorta imagined what kind of crude comments she had on Derek's post.
A teenager born in a well-to-do if not above average family with no commitments (everything paid for)does not know the pressure we have trying to make ends meet. She can be patriotic NOW but when she gets older, she'll probably understands our pain & frustration. Though she's young, age is not an excuse to be so "outspoken". If she's my daughter, younger sister or niece, I thik I'll most lily slap her for being such a ignorant brat.
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