Singapore. The eighth wonder of the world

Singapore is not just an attractive -exotional point on the world map, where the damn one wants to get in order to stare at the bizarry of the ancient past and a complete “departure” on the day after tomorrow. In fact, Singapore is the result of a persistent desire to live better than others, to achieve success only with your own hands and head ... And all this is in the absence of my inconspicuous natural wealth and everything else that turns dozens of states on our planet into burned dependents and rotting parasites. Therefore, getting acquainted with how Singapore in just a few decades of independent existence turned from a rotten provincial swamp with mosquitoes, crocodiles and tigers-ceremonies into a modern miracle-city that has no analogues on our planet in terms of comfort, think about your own life: About how to change it and what to do for this. After all, it may turn out that this same “Singapore path” is not so utopia, if you do not go at a random, blindly trying to copy it, but pragmatically follow the instructions of the sage-philosopher of the past Lao Tzu and the active creator of the present and future Lee Kuan Yu.

Why the book is worth reading

Tourists walking with open mouths along Singapore, traditionally admire this miracle city on the very edge of the continental Asia. And often they are deceived, not seeing a lot, which is hidden from the eyes of outsiders. The writer and journalist Yuri Sigov knows Singapore from the inside. He says what this city-state has been since the beginning of the 1960s. - That is, from the moment of independence from the UK, it reveals amazing paradoxes of thinking and the way of life of its inhabitants.
The reader learns what Singapore dream is and why it is unprofitable to steal, why in Singapore there are so few creative and talented people, but so many rich and successful business, trade and banking. Why there is no corruption, but also democracy.
The author warns against the idea of ​​copying Singapore experience, which can only be considered as one of the options for arranging life on our planet is a very comfortable, worthy, desired, but not subject to reproduction