But, in regard to you, not Vongthip.

A perfectly splendid person she may be. I have never met her so I am no position to express an opinion. It is surely sad that being a wonderful human being is no guarantee against a person holding willfully uninformed views or possessing an obsequious and frankly stupid set of beliefs. There is enough information out there for any thinking person to determine that Thais have been treated like mushrooms for decades (by that I mean kept in the dark and fed a diet of bullshit), and to allow their belief systems to be guided by facts rather than propaganda.

To believe something just because you are told to believe it, and because it is more comfortable to believe it and conform than to it is to question and think for oneself, is frankly something that I would expect from 8-year-old children and not warm, caring, wonderful human beings.

I comment only on Vongthip’s beliefs as expressed, and hers, like all similar views, arise from a faith stance and a need to exist in some other dimension rather than arising from fact, but of course all people with reactionary beliefs express them as fact and not opinion. This is why the remarkably unintelligent Thai politicians can say (with apparent conviction) that ‘Thai people are offended’ when what they really mean is that they themselves are offended. Because they believe themselves to be important, they naturally assume that all Thais think as they do.

If all Thais did believe the same fictions though, then Thaksin would not have won landslide election victories, and people like Vongtip would not now be trying to do a King Canute.

I have already said sufficient on this topic, there will be no more save adding that I resent people who lack even the intelligence to notice that what they believe is what has been pumped into their unquestioning brains since they were born.

I resent them even more than I resent farangs who should know better but somehow think they will impress Thais (or perhaps a few “special” Thais) by declaring their own idiotic love for someone without bothering to investigate facts rather than fiction.
All from me on this one.

At this point I feel like I’m missing something, that I barged into the middle of a long war on Vongthip where what she says now is not important anymore and she is being crucified for some previous offenses.