New Year in Singapore

To lead a society, the MM says in his precise Victorian English, “one must understand human nature. I have always thought that humanity was animal-like. The Confucian theory was man could be improved, but I’m not sure he can be. He can be trained, he can be disciplined.”

In other words:
Singapore as a Skinner-cage of a behavioristic-pavloviistic controlled animal-like population…