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In his speech to the graduating cohort at Singapore Management University, veteran diplomat Bilahari Kausikan contended that we live in a very uncertain and unpredictable world, a situation facilitated in no small measure by the surge in creation and reliance on technology. Social media in particular helps little to alleviate this circumstance, as it possibly obscures truth - if it ever exists - by allowing people, "if (they) so choose, (to) happily inhabit worlds of our own creation where the only voices we ever hear are those that we already agree with." This does not mean that all hope is lost however. He urged the soon-to-be graduating audience to "face uncertainty with a stoic and pragmatic scepticism rather than with false optimism"; to "console (themselves) with the thought that if anything is possible, then too nothing is impossible". To be a fox, rather than a hedgehog. Read his full speech here: breakfastnetwork.sg/?p=7174
Posted on: Sat, 17 Aug 2013 08:03:52 +0000

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