請聽一個新加坡人對李光耀的怨語：
“新加坡如今是一個令人傷心的地方。它變成了一間旅店。我們的家園讓一個人奪走了，他自認是我們的‘父輩’，實際上，確實是有一批人把他稱為父親。
這真是可憐可悲。
我希望李光耀盡快下臺。
我不再欽佩他，或者他說話的行態，或者他所說的話。
事實上，我肯定他是一個最大的絆腳石，妨礙著新加坡和新加坡人的發展潛能?！?/p>
以下是發表在2010-08-14新加坡文獻館題為《李光耀——確實是一個可悲景象》中英文對照全文：
14/08/10
作者/來源：Andrew Loh （30-7-2010）
http://theonlinecitizen.com
新加坡文獻館譯
我記得在上世紀的80年代，我會期待在電視上觀看國慶群眾大會。李光耀的演說讓我覺得他是一名優異的演說家，他的每一場演說都讓人精神振奮。我會粘在屏幕上細聽他的每一個字，即便非要上廁所也盡快趕回去看，為的是不要錯過他所說的每一個字。
要澄清的一點是，我從來都不仰慕他，我只是喜歡聽他的演說。
把時間拉回到2010年，我已經再也不能夠容忍，即使只是閱讀他的談話。
他在今時今日的談話都幾乎會令人覺得反感，膚淺，尤其是那不可一世的囂張氣焰。我已經記不起有多少回了，他使用貶意言詞羞辱新加坡人，這些字眼和比喻包括，狗，傭人，愚蠢，懶惰，無知等等。
他的一些支持者或許會嘗試作出解釋，說他只是為了要激勵或者敦促新加坡人要更有生產力，競爭力和辛勤工作。我的體會卻剛好相反，李光耀的選詞用字在在表現出傲慢和狂妄自大。在擁有著這一無往不克的政權和職權的格局下，他滋長了一個喪失功能的紊亂社會 – 這好比一個有如此個性的父輩會造成的局面。
這帶來了不應該發生的唯唯諾諾心態，即便他犯了錯誤，沒有一個人敢于指出他的過錯?；蛘弋斔l表了一種觀念說法，沒有人 – 媒體更不必提 – 有膽量去置問或者去挑戰他的論說。
這里邊就隱藏著新加坡的危機。
已經過了50年，我們還是被按壓在一個人的拇指之下，就像其他長期在位者一樣，他已經是活在自已的世界里。我們大家也都是活在他的世界里，毫無保留的接納了其內的所有缺點。
不是這么一回事，李先生，我不支持你的說法，認為一個人不必退休，他不應該停止工作。恰好相反，我相信，和你不一樣，人生并非只是為了喂養一頭經濟畜生，或者是作為你的一個經濟齒輪。
李光耀并非圣人，如果我們繼續過著并且信奉他說的那種生活，我們會很快發覺我們的人生毫無意義。我們的所作所為只是持續不斷與永無休止的追求所謂的‘一個光明的前程’- 一個烏托邦式的未來，一個遙不可及，也無法去到的目的地。
這是因為世間沒有這種未來。
這是那些政客們，如李光耀的工作，使我們去相信世間是有這么一種的未來。
快樂，滿足，稱心如意，是眼前之事，並非來自未來。沒有必要去追求什么‘美好的將來’因為那是無法觸摸到的。
這是不存在的。
當我們看到了這一點時，我們會滿足于當前處境。我們會明白人生是多樣化的。那就是，到了最后，只是一些很簡單的東西就會讓我們感受到快樂 – 家庭，朋友，幫助別人，以及和我們心愛的人在一起。
我們并不需要拿著‘經濟上的成功’去成就我們的心愿，或者去完成我們期待去做的事。
我滿足于我目前的處境 – 我并非一名大企業家，或者是一名高級公務員，或者是一名特優的學者，或者是一名收入百萬元者。
事實上，我在日常生活中經常面對經濟拮據的困境。
然而，我心安理得，我感覺到快樂。
喜悅的心情會油然而生，是當我見到我的母親時。是當我和我的姐妹們談話，感覺到她們的快樂時。是當我見到我的外甥和侄子們時?；蛘呤钱斘以诤臀业呐笥颜勌煺f地時。
我清楚的意識到我并非活在李光耀的那種不正常的失調家庭模式里。這種不正常是到了狂妄自大，個人自我中心，相互批斗，競爭程度到了我們可以若無其事的把外來勞工安頓在墳場居住，支付女傭那么微薄的工資，拒絕讓她們在每個月里享有一天的休息日，把年紀青青的孩子吊死，我們有著很高的自殺率，我們削減年長者的工資，只因為他們已經年老。
還有著其他的許多，和許多。
新加坡如今是一個令人傷心的地方。它變成了一間旅店。我們的家園讓一個人奪走了，他自認是我們的‘父輩’，實際上，確實是有一批人把他稱為父親。
這真是可憐可悲。
我希望李光耀盡快下臺。
我不再欽佩他，或者他說話的行態，或者他所說的話。
事實上，我肯定他是一個最大的絆腳石，妨礙著新加坡和新加坡人的發展潛能。
李光耀對我而言，他並非一名圣人。
實際上，他已經成為一個最大的笑柄，這是一個可悲老人的事跡，他為了滿足自尊心而幾乎每天的，去做出一些引人注目的言行。
這的確是一個可悲的景象。
現在，每當我看到他出現在電視上，我會把電視關掉，或者走開。
此人一無是處，除了炫耀自我。
后記：文章內容與遣詞用字以原文為本，譯文中的額外文字為的是使文章更為通暢易懂。
原文來源：http://theonlinecitizen.com/2010/07/lee-kuan-yew-a-sad-sight-indeed/
Lee Kuan Yew – a sad sight indeed
July 30, 2010
Andrew Loh
I remember in the ’80s when I would look forward to each National Day Rally on television. Lee Kuan Yew was gonna speak and I’d always found him to be a great orator, someone who enthralls me each time. I would be glued to the screen listening to every one of his words, even to the point where if I needed to use the toilet, I would run there and be back as soon as I can, so that I wouldn’t miss a word he says.
But to be clear, i was never a fan of his. I just loved listening to him speak.
Fast forward to 2010 and I can’t even bare to read what he says anymore.
Most of what he says nowadays is irritating, shallow and most significantly, condescending. I’ve lost count of the number of times he has put Singaporeans down with degrading remarks, using words and analogies including dogs, maids, daft, lazy, ignorant and more.
While some of his supporters may try and explain that he is just trying to inspire or urge Singaporeans to be more productive, competitive and hardworking, I feel it actually is the contrary. Lee Kuan Yew’s words are borne out of hubris and arrogance. And with such overwhelming power and authority, he is fast nursing a society which is fast becoming dysfunctional – just as any father with such attitudes would.
It breeds deference where there should not be, where even when he is wrong, no one dares speak up against him. Or when he makes a declaration, no one – least of all the media – dares question or challenge his claims.
This is where the danger lies for Singapore.
That after 50 years, we are still under the thumb of one man who, as with all who stays in power for so long, has become a world unto himself. And we live in this world of his, warts and all.
Nah, Mr Lee, I do not and will not subscribe to your view that one should not retire and that one should never stop working. Instead, I believe, unlike you, that there is more to life than just feeding the economy beast, or being a cog in your economic wheel.
Lee Kuan Yew is no sage and if we continue to live and believe as he does we will all soon find that our lives have become meaningless. That all we do is this relentless and endless pursuit of this thing called “a brighter future” – a utopian future which we never seem to be able to reach or arrive at.
This is because there is no such future.
It is the job of politicians like Lee Kuan Yew to make us believe that there is.
Happiness and satisfaction and contentment is now. It is not in the future. There is no need to be running after this “brighter future” because we will never reach it.
It does not exist.
When we are able to see this, we are content with the here and now. We realise that life is so much more. That at the end of the day, it is the simple things which makes us happy – family, friends, helping others, spending time with loved ones.
And we do not need “economic success” in order to be these or to do these things.
I am happy where I am – and I am no big-time businessman, or a top civil servant, or a great scholar, or am earning millions.
In fact, I am on the brink of being broke most of the time.
Yet, I am contented. I am happy.
I am most happy when I see my mom. When I speak to my sisters and see them happy. When I see my nieces and nephews. Or when I chit chat with my friends.
I am consciously aware of not being a part of this dysfunctional family of Lee Kuan Yew. Dysfunctional to the point where we become arrogant, self-centred, back-stabbing, competitive to the point where we feel it is right and proper to house our foreign workers in a cemetery, where we pay our maids such a pathetic salary, where we even reject their request for a single day off per month, where we hang young boys, where our suicide rates are so high, where we cut the pay of older workers for no other reason than that they are old.
And so on and so on.
Singapore is a sad place now. It has become a hotel. Our home hijacked by one man who sees himself as our “father”. Indeed some have called him so.
It is pathetic.
I hope Lee Kuan Yew would leave the stage soon.
I no longer admire him or the way he speaks or what he says.
In fact, I am convinced that he is the biggest stumbling block to Singapore and Singaporeans achieving their full potential.
Lee Kuan Yew to me is no sage.
Indeed, he has become something of a joke to me. A sad relic of an old man trying to feed his ego by claiming the limelight almost on a daily basis now.
It is a sad sight indeed.
And now, whenever he comes on the telly, I would turn the telly off or walk away.
The man is nothing but an ego trip.
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