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Slavoj Zizek We know Slavoj Zizek, a great provocateur who always take matters further to the point where experience and common sense defeats his own critiques. That's honorable of him but is a problem (for me) with his actual work: his thought retains a kind of secular-puritanical animus toward individuality and self-gratification,... 

Some people make conclusions based on prejudices and wrong facts. It is better to make conclusions after getting the facts and understanding them. After that, you can make your conclusions. This can apply to making investment decisions or in predicting the results of an election. It also applies to making decisions on every... 

Ageing population and increasing cost of medical care are not reasons to increase premiums. They are excuses. When CPF Board, in consultation with MOH, first calculated how much premium to collect, it had to base it on a set of assumptions. It would have included the demography of the population, number of claims, average bill...