Comments on: The sufficiency panacea

By: antipadshist

antipadshist — Thu, 28 May 2009 16:50:37 +0000

here is this ISOC ad :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pVfaQ8fZno

also :

http://mosothai.com
http://mosothai.com/main.php

By: Nudi Samsao

Nudi Samsao — Thu, 28 May 2009 05:20:47 +0000

One of the really big problems for Thailand: no genuine respect for common people among groups in power. Common people are simply to be manipulated-a kind of pawn-to serve the cause of some influential group. At a gathering, they usually sit back and acquiesced to self-serving oratory pounded out by those messiahs who, upon enough repetitions of their prophecies, mistake their own fallacies for truths.

By: antipadshist

antipadshist — Wed, 27 May 2009 11:35:12 +0000

currently on most (or all) Thai TV channels they play some sort of advertisement about “unity / reconciliation” and against the “colors”: people arguing and then fiighting. the narrator compares them to bacteria or virus, a desease (people start coughing etc.). then in the end narrator sasy that if things go on like this – our country will be destroyed… (this ad is produced by ko-ro-o-mo-no – army ?)

to me it looks like blunt propaganda aimed to dissuade whatever political dissent. propaganda doesn’t allow the difference in opinions or discussions – it tries to create an athmosphere with unanimous acceptance of the main ideology.

however during the PAD’s rallies last year and back in 2006 there were no such ads – I guess it was alright for “yellows” to stir up social unrest ? nobody voiced their dislike, but rather many officials were expressing support to PAD and condemned aby attempts by gov. to stop PAD’s action.

By: Nudi Samsao

Nudi Samsao — Wed, 27 May 2009 02:27:29 +0000

Bravo, Jack Russell!

By: Jack Russell

Jack Russell — Tue, 26 May 2009 03:50:11 +0000

Uncritical respect has bred nothing but inertia. Thailand has being going nowhere for years. There are now countries with lower labor costs. It has long been convenient to keep the electorate stupid. But when you then need critical thinking abilities, where are you then going to find them? People like Thaksin, Sonthi and Chumlong are still doing their utmost to keep the electorate stupid.

By: khon ngai ngai

khon ngai ngai — Tue, 26 May 2009 02:11:12 +0000

If I use the discussions on sufficiency economy in New Mandala as reference for my class (at great difficulty for my Thai students) as an alternative development model of Thailand, will I be charged with lese majeste? Some of the comments are not “respectful” of the royal institution.

By: ATM

ATM — Mon, 25 May 2009 23:52:46 +0000

Sufficiency Economy?
Easy to say when you have banked 35 billion USD.

By: David Brown

David Brown — Mon, 25 May 2009 23:29:55 +0000

keep the people
awe struck (of the King) and
under control (by the soldiers and blue shirted Interior Ministry)

and report on your neighbours ( aka Burma and Stalin)

Thailand Land of Snarls