Comments on: Anthaiclockwise http://absolutelybangkok.com/anthaiclockwise/ Welcome to Bangkok Thailand, Airport, Politics, Food, Nightlife and Thai Culture of the Big Mango! Wed, 20 Jul 2011 22:43:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: krid http://absolutelybangkok.com/anthaiclockwise/#comment-3410 krid Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:49:49 +0000 http://absolutelybangkok.com/?p=3941#comment-3410 Excellent post. Thai anxieties are simmering and are about to boil over, namely globalization + immigration, global economic meltdown and "the biggest issue of them all," which might come to pass this year. The fundamental problem remains that there is no tradition of civilized exchange of ideas in Thailand, no tolerant and open discourse with "the enemy" is ever possible, everything immediately becomes a matter of life and death, be it Rohingyas, civilian activists, business competitors or wrong-colored shirts. This is rooted in the whole rotten patronage system instilled by rote in the atrocious education system. We might be in for dark times in Thailand and many might be better advised to pack their belongings and leave for now. With Abhisit showing himself to be a spineless sycophant that he is, it might be decades before Thailand can continue its democratic development started in the nineties. Excellent post. Thai anxieties are simmering and are about to boil over, namely globalization + immigration, global economic meltdown and “the biggest issue of them all,” which might come to pass this year.

The fundamental problem remains that there is no tradition of civilized exchange of ideas in Thailand, no tolerant and open discourse with “the enemy” is ever possible, everything immediately becomes a matter of life and death, be it Rohingyas, civilian activists, business competitors or wrong-colored shirts. This is rooted in the whole rotten patronage system instilled by rote in the atrocious education system. We might be in for dark times in Thailand and many might be better advised to pack their belongings and leave for now. With Abhisit showing himself to be a spineless sycophant that he is, it might be decades before Thailand can continue its democratic development started in the nineties.

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