tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424364424049242300.post4817517344430845890..comments2023-06-21T18:53:11.897+10:00Comments on Pykk: to come to please usUmbagollahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14556344092820711893noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424364424049242300.post-44287659374612209922010-05-26T08:29:37.294+10:002010-05-26T08:29:37.294+10:00I lived far away from Bangkok, so the city-fightin...I lived far away from Bangkok, so the city-fighting doesn't feel so personal -- there's been no time when I've looked at any of the photographs and thought, "I remember that road," or, "Oh no, not the Siam Theatre," (torched by protesters: an old cinema) but I wish there was some magic wand that would heal Thai politics (and everything that feeds into it, the poverty in some places, the neglect, the insistent presence of the military), because it goes from bad to moderately bad to worse to awful and then veers back up again. When I was there, it was understood that <i>all</i> politicians were corrupt. You went into office to make as much money as you could before someone caught you and threw you out, whereupon you were replaced by someone else who went on to do the same thing. Of course people are angry. Anyone would be angry. But there doesn't seem to be a solution.Umbagollahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14556344092820711893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424364424049242300.post-8106658566631012642010-05-25T17:58:09.493+10:002010-05-25T17:58:09.493+10:00What's happened in Thailand is tragic...I gues...What's happened in Thailand is tragic...I guess it feels kind of personal to you, when you've lived there?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com