Thai Politics
I try not to get involved but everyone keeps talking about this stuff.
What makes it worse is that I'm clueless. I don't know what to think. I don't know why there was a coup exactly. I don't know the history of Thailand enough to "get" the way things are done here. To put it simply my answer to every political question regarding Thailand is "I dunno".
Why do people want my opinion anyways? I am not Thai, and therefore I can't vote. Like some farang who just wants to fight is a good source on anything. Nobody asks for my credentials, and if they did a B.S. in Psychology and a general interest in obscure crazy topics is nothing to brag about.
I hear buzzwords like corruption, democracy, and so on to the point they lose their meaning and just become fading emotional tones. Drifting off slowly until they mean exactly what their being used for, nothing. Leaving me only with the taste of cynicism and apathy in their departure.
Mud is thrown in every direction, every political party is supported by the King (or is it vice versa?), and to top everything off, the same ideas trade sides as if they were baseball cards.
You know, this wouldn't bug me if it wasn't so similar to... American politics.
In a way I'm kind of glad that I don't yet understand enough of the Thai language to hear the political speak in it's native tongue. I can just follow the lead of the Thais around me and I'm just fine. I may have stood and clapped for completely opposing sides depending on where I was but I didn't, and still don't, know who is who.
5 comments:
politics are confusing no matter where you go I think. I dislike them all, alas they seem kind of necessary.
Silly humans anyway.
Politics often goes with money in Thailand: most votes are influenced by gifts or by generous amounts of baths distributed during party meetings...
That was well written by the way, striking prose :)
Just curious cause you haven't posted about it in a bit. Hows training and stuff? How's life?
Training is going well, we just got back from Koh Chang again doing some more promotion of the resort during the rainy season. We didn't have much notice this time around so we forgot the camera.
sounds nice. You didn't have much notice last time either did you?
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