The caption to this blog reads “Blog from Thailand - about Thailand, the rest of the world and some of the things in it. “. By this I don’t mean that I will occupy web space to join the sullen voices condemning Thai political life with nothing but smugness.
The internet provides a great way to voice opinions, particularly in countries such as Thailand where public participation and debates are as scarce as pork loin in Saudi Arabia. Instead of wasting time and resources on posting emotional outbursts those people would never dare to utter publicly. Instead, egos should be taken back a wee bit and substituted with constructive criticism. ‘Constructive’ does not imply hate speech, disrespect and feasting on one self’s -perceived eloquence and wittiness, which are in fact little more than insults wrapped in pseudo-Americanisms. It bores the crap out of people, to use this jargon, with an imbalanced, single-sided mindset and misses the chance to comment in constructively on the subject matter.
Conversely, there is little need to provide another elongated hymn on the beauty of Thailand, the friendliness of its inhabitants or the outstanding qualities of its cuisine etc etc blablabla. Experience suggests the following: Every country has places of supreme beauty and utter ugliness. Period. The same applies for the former Kingdom of Siam. This, of course, should by no means imply that Thailand sucks. Au contraire! It is a lovely place – but certainly not in the washed-out terms in which it is commonly described. Sadly, there are no nice peoples per se: Assholes of the world, unite!
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