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The junta’s great lost opportunity

The junta’s great lost opportunity

Re: “How the junta misused culture to boost ‘Thai-ism’”, Opinion, May 26.

The tone of this article is one of unfulfilled possibilities, and I couldn’t agree more.
That said, the government effort was doomed from the start. When one (Prayut or Prawit) believes that he and his cronies have all the answers and that all others were the cause of the problems, then they were/are simply unable to build a coalition that would lead Thailand into the future. And they didn’t.
My best guess is that this was a reflection of their military background, where once you achieve a certain rank, everyone fawns all over you and obeys all your commands. It seems like Prayut expected that to continue as he took the prime minister’s chair. However, being PM of a civilian nation is not the same as being a senior general. Do they even realise that now? I simply don’t know.
One merely needs to look at the slogan of the coup – “Returning happiness to the people”. Focusing on the word “returning”, it gives the idea of looking back to a greater time. Rarely is the past ever viewed correctly, and rarely is looking backward a way to meet the future
The coup was predicated on “returning” to a better time. But no one successfully walks in to the future while facing backwards.
The remaining question is how long will this failed experiment continue?
Samui Bodoh

The tone of this article is the anachronism that Prayut presents. It’s a tragic story wrapped up in irony and dissolution, but proffered as the nation’s saviour. When you peel back the layers, there’s not a single thing that offers up any hope for the country’s future – the sorry saga of the education system being the prime example. 
The big question that is rising above this sad situation is when, not if, the people take to the streets in a dynamic force and the tanks start rolling again. Last week’s events are a portent of things to come.
Dexlowe
Thai Visa

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