Re: "Majority believe election, new govt will improve economy: poll" (BP, 2018, July 1)
Dear editor,
Polls like those regularly reported from NIDA and Suan Dusit are interesting because they might indeed represent what Thais think, which is often not what is in fact the case. Still, it's useful to know what the public thinks, albeit only on officially permitted topics.
The truly important issues to Thai society, according to common assertion, are strictly off limits to informed opinion, being protected by censorship that enforces ignorance not only of the topics themselves but of what Thai people truly think about those topics of national importance. None may know what is thought lest what?
Felix Qui
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The above letter to the editor is the text as submitted by Felix Qui to the Bangkok Post.
The text as edited was published in PostBag on July 3, 2018, under the title "What do Thais think?" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/1496570/barges-bursting
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