Public disease

Ok this post is gonna be really political-science-geeky ahahaha. So I was just reading up about public goods, which I think you would know too if you've taken economics, and it was about how providing this good to anyone within the territory effectively means it's provided to everyone in the territory. This leads to the free-rider problem of no one wanting to provide 'dem, and so the government has to take up the responsibility.

In tandem with this, I think a concept of 'public responsibility' should be more strongly advocated. Maybe it already is, Idk, but I'm lazy to google right now lol. Public responsibility is something that the government has to instill, because it's not something which's effects a government can solely bring. For example, recycling. To a lot of us we wouldn't normally give two hoots about it since it's not like you throw a piece of paper into the trash  bin and then you see a tree being chopped down with your own eyes. That's why governments have campaigns, movements to hopefully instill these ideas of 'saving the world' in our minds, and 'public awareness' is the keyword nowadays, where knowledge and statistics of all our atrocities are used to guilt-trip us into changing. I mean, this is something we all probably already know at the back of our minds, but it doesn't actually seem to be really in practice, not in Singapore at least. We do recycle stuff and save electricity occasionally, but other things like being courteous and helpful, or donating money, necessities or even love to our local needy, etc., seem to still be lacking. Public responsibility should really be pushed for in many more areas other than for natural resources, after all, the society is what impacts the environment, and with our society still lacking here and there, how do we really save more of the environment we live in?

Going back to public goods, I think having a strong sense of public responsibility in a state would introduce two new dimensions to public goods, where 1) widespread benefits don't necessarily have to always be directly provided by the government, but would also be by the combined hands of the society, and 2) includes abstract goods like happiness and whatnot. You could say this is pretty idealistic, but what I'm proposing is a concept; a direction where I think we should head in. Well, we can't rely on the government to do everything for us, also, we should be doing much more for fellow people ourselves than for anything else. Then together, I'm sure we could better work out something for this environment which we're currently destroying.

Yep ........time to sleep xx

Wonderwall

Been hooked on Wonderwall by Oasis after today's karaoke session. Song lyrics have always called out to me for as long as I can remember. Like as long ago as, "It's us, it's us, it's us who build community," /inserts hand actions/ hahaha! I guess that's part of the reason why I really like languages, the way they help people express themselves and sometimes, they way they flow or rhyme, or just sound pleasant in a string.

I rarely express my emotions, and I think it's hard to know what I'm thinking. I guess it's a form of security for myself.. On the other hand, I read into words a lot to figure out what people are thinking. Recently though, I've been wondering if that's something I should change, because not everyone puts much thought in their words all the time, and reading too much into them would just give me inaccurate ideas. For myself, too, I realize the possible meanings I may be conveying through what I say sometimes only after I've said it. Everyone infers differently, perceives words differently, so I guess I should stop thinking so much about it. Damn this 'occupational' disease from taking Linguistics in JC, lol.

XV

Everything seems like a city of dreams,
I never know why,
But I still miss you

There she's standing in a field of lights
I close my eyes,
And I still miss you