What do you do when the world is looking at you?
I kinda like this advertisement because unlike other advertisements, its not so trick orientated or flashy movements. instead it comes as a very prophetic, very "everything that has a beginning has an end" kinda story. I admit, i'm a sucker for theatrics like these, its something i have a penchant for and i don't see it changing anytime soon.
"What do you do when the world is looking at you? You make the look the other way."
I dunno it just strikes me as a very deep kind of statement for some random reason. Almost like it describes more than just a feint and a pass or as some like to call it the "no-look pass". It also describes the rationale behind the moves that people make sometimes, especially high profile ones.
War has often been said to be a 'scapegoat' for Presidents who are in trouble big time within their country. IIRC (if i remember correctly), 2 of the last wars initiated by the Presidents of USA were all done during a time of political unrest or when they were coming under fire at home. So what do you do? Make them look the other way round. War has this amazing effect of bringing the nationalistic pride within you and unites people with this same innate quality of most people. Most, because i acknowledge that not everyone can do it, oh well.
On a more down-to-earth level I guess there are still a few ways of utilising this logic other than to use it as an msn nick (=p). I think it pretty much illustrates human's natural instinct to push the blame away from themselves, rather than take in the blame and own up to the responsibility that it brings about.
I had the privilege of interviewing a rather educated and well informed person thanks to Pre-U Sem. We were supposed to interview him with regards to this huge overlying topic called Global City. We questioned him on Singapore's ability to become a global city, what's hindering our progress and what can be done.
He was refreshingly candid about it and even gave us answers that we did not expect him to give for obvious reasons for his protection. Which is also part of the reason as to why his name has not been revealed as of yet.
One of the reasons he cited for what can go wrong was our knack for screwing up our relations with our neighbouring countries. We seem to have this inability to communicate with our neighbours our lack of empathy when we deal with our neighbours. No doubt, they act ridiculousy too but nevertheless we should have dealt with some of the issues in a more amicable manner. I don't wanna pull out any examples for fear of trouble but its something like that. Like what they he said, We can't just saw ourselves out of the map and put us into like Europe or something. We're screwed if one day they decide to just kick us in the ass and pull out all stops on the usage of their airspace or something like that. Our economy would be screwed and its goodbye singapore. GG, as dota players like to call it.
Yeap that's all the food for thought I could think of today. time to return for the life of a JC student. no life. Gosh the irony is killing me -.-"
and i just absolutely hate it when you do the things you do. its not your fault, more of mine. but i just can't help it. its kidna depressing in a way, and also a fucked up feeling, but i guess its something i'll have to learn to look beyond. . .
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