Link to images of Bhuta's installation https://www.blindbild.com/singapur-singapore-biennale-2016-an-atlas-of-mirrors-januar-2017/singapore-biennale-bhuta/ https://www.artsy.net/artwork/hemali-bhuta-growing

Link with Atienza's installation https://www.cobosocial.com/dossiers/10-discoveries-singapore-art-week-2017/

Links on how Singapore's governmental policies led to a boom in wealth and business.

https://asiatimes.com/2021/07/why-singapore-is-rich-and-will-remain-rich/

https://www.npr.org/2015/03/29/395811510/how-singapore-became-one-of-the-richest-places-on-earth

This kind of condemnation (declared perversion that requires intervention) reminds me of Melissa Febos thoughts on the origin of the word "slut" in her essay "The Mirror Test" from her book, Girlhood. She writes, "Before it carried any sexual connotation, the word 'slut' was a term for a slovenly woman, a poor housekeeper...Just think of all the things a woman could do rather than clean. Which is to say, think of all the pastimes that might make her a slut: reading; talking; listening; thinking; masturbating; eating; observing the sky...In the twentieth century its meaning solidifies as an immoral woman...It is a brilliant linguistic trajectory. Make the bad housekeeper a woman of poor morals. Make her maid service to men a moral duty, and every other act becomes a potentially immoral one...Make sex a moral duty, too, but pleasure in it a crime. This way you can punish her for anything. You can make her humanity monstrous. Now you can do anything you want to her."

Would the author consider the film Crazy Rich Asians as a part of this push by Singapore into becoming a global player in contemporary art and media markets and fantasies?

The fantasy of the white savior complex.

This line and the paragraph above reminds me of the idea that our happiness-obsessed culture is a type of control. We are instructed to pursue happiness and if we don't achieve it all the time, it is a personal failure. It is never questioned that there could be institutional or societal reasons for unhappiness or that there are grave injustices or unsustainable practices preventing happiness that demand radical change.

Your "perversion" is what the total education cannot ever eradicate ("the except for"), so in a way your perversion is out of their control. But your perversion is also the total education's justification to enter and influence all areas of your life. Total Education is entirely dependent on the perversions in us defined by Total Education. These perversions adapt and change over time to fit Total Education's current needs, and to ensure they always exist.

When the institution has determined your thinking, all thinking is done on the clock. You are always being influenced by the institution.

A positive feedback loop.

The individual is often thought of as an independent entity when in reality individuals are porous, absorbing and influencing one another's beliefs. I think individuals are often scapegoated for crimes so that institutions do not have to take responsibility for creating a toxic environment conducive to prejudice and power imbalances.