3 Keys to Nations’ Success - Introduction

3 Keys to Nations' Success - Introduction
2010 03 10
solvere.blogspot.com
Solvere Lim Swee Keng

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Introduction

To succeed is everyone’s desire, even though success means different things to different people at different occasion.
But for sure, history tells us success will not come by, come by just through any change, reform, freedom, election even revolution.

Post World-War II, many new nations formed, only few industrialized, among them even fewer succeeded with clear recipe like Singapore.

Many nations studied Singapore story of success.
Lee Kuan Yew, one of the founders, pointed two important points for success – Pride and Hardship.

Today, the world is facing more deadly crisis than the Great Depression.
2009 Mar 11 “… most virulent since the 1930s” Greenspan ex-US Federal Reserve Chairman.
2009 Jul 26 “… more virulent than the great depression” Bernanke, US Fed Reserve Chairman
2010 Feb 23 “… the greatest financial crisis globally ever” Greenspan

After nations pumping in unprecedented Trillions Dollars, there is no creation of significant employment, there is no clear sign of recovery – Singapore included.

Pride and Hardship are necessary, but inadequate.
We need added wisdom, for sure.

Civilization progresses through endless inventions.
Invention is not limited to sciences, technology.
Every progressive step needs invention, spanning from Statues in Law to dynamic Social order.

Simplification is the first requirement for an invention.

Principles behind International Patent Law crystallized wisdom from centuries of scientific research, technological innovation - putting Simplification first ahead of others.
Simplification is the first and most important requirement for an invention, any invention, all inventions.
This is an unambiguous demonstration of its paramount importance.

Examining today crisis, this crisis was partially created by bankers.
They made simple, direct, quantifiable assets into complex, derived instruments with more than six decimals point accuracy - yet that are in fact impossible to be quantified.

This pointed clearly that the west has failed in the very anchor that governed all their thoughts - logic and reasoning.
They also eliminated the golden rules of discipline and accountability, efficiency and transparency.

The west has abandoned the very key for their success in the name of creativity.
They even abandoned function and purpose for the sake of profits, so that profits can be easily manipulated.
Human wit manipulated these beyond way to verify, means to ascertain, even by the best experts, all the Nobel Laureates.

Within few centuries of disciplined research, the west surpassed all others in organization, sciences, technology.
Yet the west abandoned discipline, ignored its preeminence, even failed to recognize it after disasters turn virulent.

It is a sad moment for the west.
This prolong crisis pronouncedly reminding the west they cannot preach freedom freely without real facts, sound logic, strong reasoning.
Even with these they still have to support with verifiable real facts, consistent and verifiable real facts.

Simplification improves efficiency, reliability.
Simplification also makes every wrong move surfaces, becomes transparent, naked earlier - disaster can be detected, mitigated before becoming virulent.

Cognizing NOT the criticality of Simplification, preaching of free market is baseless.

On Sep 2, 2009 at LKY at LKY School’s forum, expressed concerne on the immense costs of regulation – so immense that the world may only be able to afford regulation after economy recovers.

How could we heal a sick without arresting the cause, an important cause, the root cause?
It therefore demonstrated clearly this is the very important key Singapore yet to cognize!

How could the world go on, when freedom of market is for players to freely exaggerate, fabricate, manipulate at the expense of effective, efficient, expedient transaction between real supply and demand?

Therefore we need to regulate, we can regulate, we must regulate immediately and effectively by removing complication artificially introduced by the witty unwise fools.
We must simplify, make direct, make measurable of all tradable.

The purpose of this writing is not to praise or condemn any political systems.
It is to highlight, deliberate, emphasize the importance of Simplification.

With simpler solutions, everything is made more efficient, resources more nations can have timely access to, all nations therefore have more chances to succeed – which is the purpose of this writing.

This long introduction detailed how big is the error, where is the error, how error was made, how error till today is not yet properly understood.
This is based not on high ideals of socialists, nor motivation of capitalists.
It is built on the foundation of improved understanding of human nature that shaped history, that determined our future.
With these, we can go to fruitful, detailed discussion of the three keys - Pride, Hardships, Simplifications.

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