Wednesday, April 09, 2008

the.world.

we've got some bad intolerance shit going on in this world today.
to some people, if you're Muslim, you're a terrorist.
if you're a guy and you listen to westlife, you're gay.
if you're gay, you're morally unsound
or somebody touched your pee-pee when you were young.

here in singapore, intolerance is pretty bad.
we've got so many people criticizing one another,
it's like all that racial harmony made space for other sorts of intolerance.
it's ugly, it's endless - like a tennis game between the Williams sisters.

singaporeans have hit out against NKF and its donors,
having to somehow squeeze in a fucking lucky draw in its donation cards
so that donation collectors have more incentive to collect more cash.
according to these critics, the main drive for collectors to go around getting cash
is no longer helping the less fortunate, but to help themselves to a Mercedes Benz.

outside singapore, it's worse.
after 911, Islamic intolerance has been rising.
at the same time, Western intolerance in the Arab World became a more popular concept,
allowing extremists to gain sympathy and support.
it's bad, and it doesn't seem to be getting any better.

and maybe that's all there is to tolerance.
the ability to come up with just a pinch worth of positivity.
yeah, that little positivity,
and the world can light up with smiles instead of bombs, for once.