Newspaper Article by Edward Choy

June 27, 2005
The sky won't fall down even if we don't care
By Edward Choy

WE'VE heard it all before: Young people in Singapore just don't care. But
how bad is this thing called apathy, really? I don't care. Not a bit. Not at
all, in fact.

Nope, the sky's still there. Whether we care about politics, or the
economic situation, or the state of the arts, or the incidence of HIV infection
- life goes on.

You go to school, you work, you go out, you go home, you watch TV, you
sleep. You pay your bills, you pay your loans, you pay your taxes, you check
your CPF account and wonder if you'll ever have the $2.3 million you need to
retire.

For men, our enlightening experience of 2 1/2 years in green makes us
believe we know how our country really works. That knowledge serves us well
through the rest of our lives on our little patch of green in the South China
Sea. So well, in fact, we pooh-pooh any suggestion from the other half of the
population that may run contrary to our 'insider knowledge'.

That said, if you think we're pathetic (as opposed to just apathetic),
take a look at the folks on the opposite side of the planet. They're so sick of
the War on Terror, they would rather sit and watch people waiting for a verdict
on a man whose skin colour is best described as 'peroxide'.

Let's face it, most of us are sick of all the nonsense that's supposed
to constitute the real world today. If I want to let my brains rot while I stew
in my favourite chair before banal and ultimately worthless images, there's
nothing anyone can really do about it.

Even if I did care - I'm really not sure anyone would give a
hoot.

The writer is a postgraduate theatre studies student at the
National University of Singapore.

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