re: "20-year National Strategy comes into effect" (BP, October 13)
Dear editor,
On reading the wondrous promises of The first National Strategy, which is intended to lock Thailand up until 2037, one is not only reminded of the equally wondrous promises that Stalin's and Mao's national development plans made for the Soviet Union and China; one wonders also how collecting luxury watches from dead best friends is an example of sustainable sufficiency economics. While ever more are needed, the supply of dying best mates to collect them from is not obviously renewable; unless, of course, a new crop of such willing contributors comes with each new coup or extension thereof, thereby ensuring the desired sustainability providing a sufficient number of luxury pieces for flapping wrists.
Meanwhile, the rude reality of historical evidence, with such exemplary failures as China under Mao and the Soviet Union under Stalin and his successors, shows a strong correlation between democratic liberties and healthy national development, which is not surprising since, unless people are free to experiment with new ways and critically question old habits, customs and dogmas, mistakes cannot be corrected, wrongs cannot be righted, corruption cannot be eradicated, nor new circumstances adapted to. The coupists' straitjacket is a recipe for stultification and retarded growth. But they have certainly paid themselves sufficiently well to make it up.
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 October 16, 2018, under the title "The coupist straitjacket" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/1558626/support-young-mums
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