{"id":16519,"date":"2022-01-13T23:43:41","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T15:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/?p=16519"},"modified":"2022-01-13T23:43:41","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T15:43:41","slug":"good-governance-civilized-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/good-governance-civilized-citizens\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Governance. Civilized Citizens."},"content":{"rendered":"

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“Good governance key to helping Singapore reinvent and stay relevant in post-COVID-19 world: Ong Ye Kung” was the headline which caught my eye when I received the Straits Times (ST) evening update in my email inbox. I ask what good governance is and how good governance is achieved. The answer, to my mind, is that good governance and a civilized citizenry go hand in hand. The government is elected by the people. Ideally, that means that the best of the mass of civlized citizenry are chosen to lead the rest. People have a great tendency to expect goodies from their governments and blame those same governments when what emerges from time to time is not what people expected or think they expected. People need to remember that good government shapes the conditions conducive to developing civilized citizenry, and the more civilized the citizenry become, the better the government they will get. So, focus on being committed to developing civilized citizens, and good governance will follow. It is an iterative thing, of course, but the focus ought to be on the citizenry. Otherwise, as Victor Davis Hanson points out, dying citizenship, or the qualities of good, civilized citizenship, would mean a dying nation as well. Victor Davis Hanson has a great video on the topic embedded below:<\/span><\/p>\n