Never before has there been such an explicit recognition by those in power that our society is divided. Politically, the results of the GE and the PE reveals what author Ms Catherine Lim, in 1994, termed "the great affective divide" between those in government and those being governed, which could result in "a serious bifurcation at the emotive level, resulting in all kinds of anomalies and incongruities."
One of these could be "a schizoid society where head is divorced from heart, where there is a double agenda and double book-keeping with people agreeing with the Government in public but saying something else in private." Full story
