re: "Philosophical Vacuum" (PostBag, August 4)
Dear editor,
Sadly, Michael Setter is spot on in "Philosophical Vacuum" (PostBag, August 4). It would greatly benefit Thai society were philosophy to be taught in Thai schools from primary on; that would, however, require not only that teachers start to practice the critical thinking entailed, but that Thai law be reformed to allow so untraditionally unThai a practice. Most sadly for Thais, such enlightenment is not about to happen this year or in the coming twenty: Thainess is the preferred ideology of the dictators, as has been the norm through history and across cultures for such practitioners of moral corruption.
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 August 6, 2018, under the title "Dictators love Thainess" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/1516490/narratives-of-denial
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