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By: Reg Varney

Reg Varney — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:54:36 +0000

And I understand that they let once princesses choose jewelery and leave without having to pay for it.

By: thaicrisis

thaicrisis — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:24:31 +0000

-> Srithanonchai

For sure Siam Paragon practises, dutyfully,the Sufficiency Economy.

The best proof : they show inside the commercial center a Porsche car, but not a Ferrari (or it might be the contrary, sorry I’m not an expert).

Anyway, that tells a lot.

We could add for that matter that Siam Paragon is the Mount Olympus of… the bad taste.

But that would be dutyfully too greek.

PS : 1000 THB for this book ? Sorry, that’s wayyyyy too expensive.

By: Srithanonchai

Srithanonchai — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:25:10 +0000

Since Siam Paragon is on royal land, it must certainly comply with the sufficiency economy model. That’s for sure. I had a look at the book a few weeks ago and was miffed that the editors claimed that there were “interviews” in the book, when it contained only brief platitudinal statements. Doesn’t the sufficiency economy model prescribe that people should not lie? At least, this would be a good start.

By: Nicholas Farrelly

Nicholas Farrelly — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:03:13 +0000

ThaiCrisis,

I picked up a copy in Bangkok last week, at the Asia Books at Siam Paragon (the pinnacle of “sufficiency”, no?).

It was going for something like 1000 baht for a very glossy, hard-cover version.

Happy hunting,

Nicholas

By: ThaiCrisis

ThaiCrisis — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:37:39 +0000

Could you give us a link or an address where this “volume” can be found (if it’s style okay to buy such… thing under the Sufficiency Economy Principle) ?

I mean : I would like to go deeper, further into the “platitude” concept (I am myself a kind of a scientist stuying thai “platitude”).

I believe this book can really help me !!!