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Happy Birthday, then, you old coot! Banzai!Quote:
Originally Posted by Calgary
Have you just learnt the acronym TEFL or is it just the limit of your intelligence?Quote:
Originally Posted by Butterfly
I have not seen a post on this thread from you that would make me think you were anything but a shit stirring turd burglar.
It is well known that someone with a view that is radically different from the norm must inject some sort of "spice" to his posts in order to get his point across. If they do not, then the initial posts will be "still born" and said person may as well write it on bog paper before wiping his arse.
It is quite a tribute to Calgary that people do read his posts (a large proportion of a majority of his posts at least) despite the fact the style can be OTT...They are certainly more entertaining than the inane contributions that you make.
I am a boring professional who has a dislike for people who think they can control others, or think they are immune from the law, because they have money...or think they have. However, I dislike those who remove such persons because they are unable to, and want to do the same, even more.
How I feel in this case however, is irrelevant. I would support the writings of Calgary and regard yours with the same contempt if I was fully in agreement with you and thought he was a bumbling idiot.
End of rant...
It does seem like things are coming to a head. There will need to be a coordinated effort by the Reds to shut down the military and the amartya if they try to move against the democratic pregrogative of the majority. Good luck to them - they'll need it.
I think he's known about the meaning of TEFL for as long as he's know about LB, K-Y and everything else associated with man made women. Rather like loosebowels his chosen role on this forum is that of a heckler and I think you've just given him more time than the rest of us togetherQuote:
Originally Posted by Troy
Rajprasong_News @Rajprasong_News #Thailand
Red Team plans a counter strategic move that will surprise and shake the Elite to the core.
Nitirat Group plans to present paper on the interference of Constitution Court tomorrow. Stay tuned!
so much for reconciliation and unity :mid:Quote:
Originally Posted by StrontiumDog
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Originally Posted by Troy
aren't you a righteous boring little prick, the only reason I am calling on Calgary and other turds like Mao is because they are liars, dishonest and plain stupid. The only right thing to do is to ridicule them because they have nothing meaningful or intelligent to say. I am just adapting to their level of debate.
Anyone that could possibly be sold on the tripe that Thaksin is feeding them will always live in hope i suppose.Quote:
Originally Posted by StrontiumDog
Damned by dysfunction | Bangkok Post: opinion
COMMENTARY
Damned by dysfunction
The Democrats and the People's Alliance for Democracy once again found common cause in their fear of amnesty for the bogeyman which might set up his return. They showed a mutual willingness to discard the democratic process and use thug-like intimidation and violence to achieve their goal of stopping the controversial reconciliation bill.
Their actions perpetuate the never-ending cycle of idiocy in Thai politics, where the two sides of the political divide differ only in the colours of their shirts and their exact purposes. But otherwise they are all the same: hypocritical in their words, shameless with their propaganda, destructive in their deeds and selfish in their motives.
Polarised politics, pulled apart by extreme partisanship, acted out by too-eager cronies and driven by popular personalities out of self-interest, all legitimised by self-righteousness. Both sides would claim their causes are just, as if that excuses deeds that are unjust.
The Thai political institution is dysfunctional. No matter whom we vote for, no matter what reform is introduced, it all comes to naught because the institution and the characters operating in it are not only incapable, but unwilling to change for the better.
I am reminded of a talk I had with His Holiness Phra Paisal, one of Thailand's most revered monks, regarding greed and materialism in the Buddhist institution and the near impossibility of reform. He told me of a corrupt abbot who enriched himself with donations, but it is impossible to remove him because worshippers in the district love and revere him so much. Meanwhile his peers defend him vigorously, despite his ill deeds.
To institute reform would be too upsetting and would implicate too many important people. It would expose too many failings. It would question the system that has been in place for decades or centuries. The Buddhist institution too is dysfunctional.
For all the talk through the years of education reforms, presently the Bodindecha School, one of the Kingdom's premier secondary schools, is embroiled in a ''tea money'' controversy. Rote learning still plagues the system, no matter how much lip service is given to the need for change. Learning just to pass multiple choice exams, tutorial schools that milk parents for money and a tradition more obsessed with form and ceremonies than critical thinking and creativity are all very much still the norm.
To institute reforms would be too upsetting; too many important people would lose face; too many skeletons would be exposed. It would question the only system that all the teachers and administrators know. It would turn a deep-rooted tradition upside down. If the institutions of government, religion and education are so dysfunctional _ and throw the media into the mix too _ what chance does the rest of society have?
The theme is one and the same: organisational behaviours and practices conforming to traditional routines that are rigid, outdated and impractical, but safe, easy and rewarding in their own way.
The players defend and uphold such routines because it is all they know _ the institutional pyramid, dysfunction from top to bottom.
But it's not just a Thai problem, is it?
Four years ago, US presidential candidate Barack Obama promised, ''Yes, we can change''. Four years hence, the US and the world has found out, ''Change? No we can't, not really''.
This isn't because President Obama hasn't tried his hardest to institute reforms. But what chance do a few individuals have against institutions deeply entrenched for decades or centuries in their routines and traditions, filled with people who from top to bottom are unrepentant and unyielding?
Presidents come and go, while institutions led by oil dealers, arms merchants, bankers and preachers shape policies and determine destinies.
In Greece, political parties outdid each other in spending and spoiling the masses with populist policies. Systematic corruption abounded until the country went bankrupt, but this isn't anything unique and exclusive to the Greeks. Other European countries are said to be heading down the same road, and Thailand is no stranger to spending and spoiling the populace for votes, as well as systematic corruption as a matter of time-honoured tradition.
One may argue that modern democracy isn't about human rights, freedom, justice or equality - it's about trading favours for votes. Hence, the democratic institution is itself dysfunctional, not just in Thailand.
Local, regional or global economic crises, one after another, every few years or so, basically boil down to borrowing money we don't need, spending money we don't have and hedging and speculating into the future in the hopes of making money on goods and services that do yet not.
But we spend this speculated future profit in the present because the credit mentality of modern capitalism dictates that value comes from spending money we don't have. It's greed, frankly, and it is dysfunctional.
The future then catches up with us and we are neck deep in non-performing loans and staring at the stark reality that bankers, brokers and fund managers are actually not oracles with the gift of foresight. Instead, their crystal balls are stamped ''Made in China'' on the bottom. So we have an economic crisis.
Yet bankers get lucrative bailout deals, because the capitalist economic system is so institutionalised in the global network that we fear entire economies would crumble if we did not prop up the very people who in fact collapse economies because of their greed and irresponsibility. Then we start the same cycle again, with laughable existential irony. One may argue that the capitalist institution itself is dysfunctional.
This past week, the World Economic Forum met in Bangkok on the theme ''Shaping the Region's Future through Connectivity''. It's a prelude to the oncoming Asean Economic Community (AEC) in 2015.
Luxury hotels, big limousines, expensive suits and cheery talk abounded. The opening ceremony was full of smiles and the closing ceremony echoed the sound of congratulatory applause for the grand success of the gathering.
But are institutions - local, regional and global - capable, or even willing to actually see through the reforms needed to be made to achieve the goals of the AEC? Human nature favours the joy of flowery words over critical self-examination.
One Dutch businessman I talked to at an expatriate event on Wednesday said he's very excited about the AEC. But he also lamented that he's found in dealing with the Thai government on this very issue that institutionally no one is prepared or even knows what they are doing. What's more, the media has never really tried to explain what the AEC actually entails. However, he said, everybody loves talking it up.
Will the institutions that run Thailand and the nations of the AEC be willing or capable of actually making it work? Time will tell. Looking at Thai institutions, which save for a very few seem quite dysfunctional across the board, the prospects are not encouraging.
Then again, it matters little, for no doubt when leaders meet again for more forums in the coming years congratulations will be exchanged and successes boasted of. All the while tragedies like the one in Greece will happen again and again the world over, as they have through the last century - and Thailand will still be its own worst enemy.
But because those at the top of the pyramid will reap the fruits of the system, and some in the middle might get a taste - while those at the bottom seek handouts and conform to survive - we will pretend that it is all a success story, from introduction to prologue.
The plot is stale, the theme is boring, but the tale deeply rooted, with characters unrepentant and unyielding. It's tradition. It's culture.
And so institutional dysfunction is perpetuated, with congratulations all around.
The Matrix isn't just a movie starring Keanu Reeves, and woe to the bearer of bad news. That's you, Morpheus. Watch out for Mr Smith.
Voranai Vanijaka
^ I think that voting should include a veto power, if people dont like any of the candidates, they should be able to vote for none of the above and then elections be carried out again with those candidates forced to step down.
It would shake up the system nicely, right now its the corporations that have the veto power as they have the money to bankroll political campaigns, its a subversion of democracy by money.
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Originally Posted by [B]Voranai Vanijaka[/B]
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Damned by dysfunction | Bangkok Post: opinion
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They showed a mutual willingness to discard the democratic process and use thug-like intimidation and violence to achieve their goal of stopping the controversial reconciliation bill.
First they expose their brethren anti-democratic impulses (above), but then cannot refrain from visiting the sins of their soul-mates on others (Below).
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Their actions perpetuate the never-ending cycle of idiocy in Thai politics, where the two sides of the political divide differ only in the colours of their shirts and their exact purposes.
There is not a never-ending cycle of idiocy in Thai Politics?....This is just singing their old mantra of "If we are not in control, this country is headed straight into the shitter".
The fact this writer does not recognize that the last election took care of the "idiocy in Thai politics" , or rather the idiocy of their coup, shows he is not a Democrat.
The rest of the article is immersed in negativity about the entire Political system......but where are the solutions? I guess I prefer reading about what we can do, as opposed to the opposite.
Throughout this opinion piece, is an underdraft of anti-democracy and anti-politician.
One can heap scorn on all of that, but to what purpose.................Thailand is full of influentials who are not sold on Electoral democracy. Not that elections solve everything, but I have yet to see any framework other than the result of electoral democracy, which would be better suited to make progress on all the things this writer dumps on.
If one pressures PADites and their soul-brothers, about what alternatives they have to those damnable politicians, they avoid an answer. But I have a suspicion about what it would be for these yellow-clad folks.
To heap overwhelming abuse on all things political as in this article, is probably a 'front' for advancing the alternatives PADites avoid talking about.
And at the end of our chat, as we were ducking into the rear seats of our respective Mercs, I with my bag full of Apple products and he with his young acolyte squirming to keep his ass in just the right position for fondling, I asked him why good people like us couldn't find it in themselves to simply opt out of this thoroughly corrupt system, the sangha and the propaganda press being major players in what we agreed was a foul game. He just shrugged and waved his free arm to take in my bag, our cars, and his little cutie, as if to say, "What... And give up all this?"Quote:
Originally Posted by StrontiumDog
Good commentery by Voranai Vanijaka. He sees the global perspective as well - US and Europe.