Wednesday, May 04, 2005

Linkages & Fragments

Singapore is full of fragments.
Built a private housing, throw a high fence around it.
Built a country club with golf course, throw a high fence around it.
Built a casino, throw in some policies to deter Singapore entering it.
Built anything in Singapore, you need barriers to deter people from entering it.
Even churches are not spared.
Why do you need fence if the crime rate is low?
Why do you need fence when vandalism is punished with a cane?
Is it because we need to differentiate ourselves from others?
So much for unity and intergration.
The In-between space, mere inconvenience. Something we can do without.
The In-between space, uncared for, undesirable, under utilized.
We hate the In-between space because of the weather. We do not want to walk under the sun, nor the rain.
The In-between space is thus filled with roads, transportation elements. Teleportation devices. To make such devices bearable, we have television onboard. We have personal audio systems or communication devices to occupied our time in the teleportation devices.
Are we aware of the surroundings? The environment we are traveling through do not matter. They can be fighting a war outside, but we are isolated, inside the teleportation device, with our own programs. We do not care. We just want to reach our destination. We look forward to the destination. The process is a hindrance.
An element we do not appreciate and can do without it.

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