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Update: Disneyland With the Death Penalty, Revisited, 2012 http://www.wired.com/2012/04/opinion-jeyaretnam-disneyland-death-penalty/all/ http://www.wired.com/20

• kirsebaer 12y ago
  "We are mostly law abiding because we are afraid and repressed and we have no choice, not because we are inherently well behaved or “good.” We’re not Disneyland by a long shot but it is probably true to say that if George Orwell and Philip Dick had an illegitimate child of a theme park, then this would be it. "Gibson was a visionary in that he saw clear through the hype to the disturbing underbelly. It turns out our government doesn’t have the secret to prosperity, and progress and they are clearing failing in technological innovation and creativity. But others still believe in the hype and if the PAP’s model for pseudo democracy takes off then new democracies everywhere are in danger."
• jpatokal 12y ago
  Note that author Kenneth Jeyaretnam is the son of J.B. Jeyaretnam, a veteran opposition policitian who got royally screwed over by the Singaporean government, and the leader of a (small) opposition party himself, so take that with a grain of salt. Not that this invalidates his views, but he's certainly not a neutral observer like Gibson was. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._B._Jeyaretnam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._B._Jeyaretnam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Jeyaretnam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Jeyaretnam