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whybother, on 2012-05-07 09:35:21, said:
Thai at Heart, on 2012-05-07 09:27:56, said:
The funny thing is, everyone has been running around forever saying that either the amataya don't exist or have ceased to relevant, or (absolutely mistakenly), that the Sinhawatras are part of the elite. It is pretty obvious that a lot of important people like the situation the way it is, and don't like anyone shaking the apple cart one bit.
Seems as though things have calmed down a bit, but the reality is that nothing stays the same forever, and the only thing inevitable is change of some sort. Whether it comes out to the absolute agreement of all involved is very unlikely, but a "negotiated" change is better than coups, massive civil protest and potentially civil war.
What I am pretty sure about is that all sides have a vested interest that goes way beyond "protecting" the country and I abhor this idea that the ideas of some are completely selfless and that all others are selfish.
Seems as though things have calmed down a bit, but the reality is that nothing stays the same forever, and the only thing inevitable is change of some sort. Whether it comes out to the absolute agreement of all involved is very unlikely, but a "negotiated" change is better than coups, massive civil protest and potentially civil war.
What I am pretty sure about is that all sides have a vested interest that goes way beyond "protecting" the country and I abhor this idea that the ideas of some are completely selfless and that all others are selfish.
I generally agree with what you're saying, except that the people that are complaining about the "elite" the most are not really doing much to change anything. Education is the key, and Thaksin did very little to improve it, and PTP are going backwards with it. They're not interested in educating people because they have the support of a lot of the poor. The more they are educated, the more that they ask questions. Questions are the last thing that this government wants.
http://www.atimes.co...a/LB26Ae01.html
Improving education is a non stop priority, and changes today will take 20 years to feed through the system.
I saw my son's "social' test, for 11 year olds and there genuinely was a multiple answer question "What should you do if you meet a pooyai on the street?", one of the answers to which was 'give an appropriate "wai"". All rather sad really. I don't presume that this part of the curriculum was cooked up in the last 9 months, and we have all heard about the questions in the Uni entrance exam.
It is precisely the untouchable technocrats within the system who are perpetuating some kind of social engineering on society who need to be shaken up and accept that harking back to some golden age is a nonsense. Thainess has become a noose around the neck of every student in the country. Every country has some kind of issues with its education system, but whilst other countries in the region are continuing apace to produce world class engineers, mathematicians, or scientists, Thailand is wasting its school time to make sure that people know the order of society and wai each other according to their position.
It is precisely this fear of change, or rebelliousness or freedom of thought that will continue to hold back the creativity and inspiration of Thailand's youth who are the future of the country. Of course I don't want anarchy, but building inspiration among young minds by definition needs so acceptance that the youth of today will inevitably see the world differently from the middle aged. The world waits for no one.
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