I am back to reading Foucault again after a brief respite of reading daily fiction of Straits Times, Streats and Today.

He talked about how progress in certain fields of knowledge tends to take place in discontinuous, sudden bursts, contradicting the usual idea that improvements should take place in a calm continuous manner. The rapidity and the extent of the development of the knowlegde are signs of changes in the rules governing what constitutes scientific knowledge, deciding what is scientifically acceptable. It is not an external imposition of authority on scientific knowlegde, but the entire system of what constitutes their internal validity has underwent a "global modification'.

Our state tends to operate in a similar way, where sudden changes take place and the supporting infrastructure of education, administration, taxation and legislation springs up overnight.

It is not a wonder then when the government announced possible of implementation of a 5% GST, and that studies are being done in look into the impact, the people have no doubts that the studies will be show supporting evidence for the proposition increase will be implemented, with or without their consent.