I'm reading a book at the moment called: Negation, text worlds, and discourse: the pragmatics of fiction. The author, Laura Hidalgo Downing uses the novel Catch-22 as a backdrop for her study. I came across this paragraph which seemed to be so very indicative of Thailand in the here and now:
'Group headquarters were alarmed, for there was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to. Colonel Cathcart sent Colonel Korn to stop it, and Colonel Korn succeeded with a rule governing the asking of questions. Colonel Korn's rule was a stroke of genius, Colonel Korn explained in his report to Colonel Cathcart. Under Colonel Korn's rule, the only people permitted to ask questions were those who never did. Soon the only people attending were those who never asked questions, and the sessions were discontinued altogether, since Clevinger, the corporl and Colonel Korn agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.' (Catch-22:49)
Any thoughts?