On media licensing and Marx
To offer another perspective, below is a full version of what was sent to Today paper as a letter on the media licensing regimen. It includes points that were probably too sensitive to be raised when the edited version of the letter was released: The unhappiness arising from the latest announcements by MDA on licensing issues...
What is meritocratic individualism?
In many instances, there is still confusion as to what meritocracy is and what it entails. The passage below helps place this idea in the capitalist context to which it belongs. The ideology of meritocracy is always about ‘I-me-mine’ and hardly ever about ‘you-we-ours’. It is the kind of blinkered perspective and way...
The xenophobia of bureaucrats (aka NParks)
Apparently there is a potential spanner in the works for organizers of the upcoming May Day protest in Hong Lim Park: Foreigners are not allowed to take part or someone is going to have to answer for it. That is, of course, unless the police give a permit to allow said foreigners to be participants at such events. But the...
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