re: "Not a class thing" (PostBag, July 9)
Dear editor,
Vint Chavala should look to the democracies of New Zealand and the Scandinavian countries, which are all doing nicely. And if he truly thinks that there is nothing more to human life than economics, technology and state education, more accurately known as propaganda, he has a sadly impoverished view of what it is to be a human person.
Those things are certainly important, but once a full stomach is provided, most people think that other things matter a lot, like being respected as individuals with hopes, plans, self-awareness and the like: even Chinese aspire to such. It is respect for these aspects of being a person that make democracy the best of all forms of government, however imperfect, fragile and dependent on constant vigilance.
Thailand has failed for decades because its army generals plotting unearned political careers abhor those good morals that found democracy. The collateral damage of the repeated coups has not only stunted Thailand's political growth, but has retarded economic growth, prevented effective education, and nurtured the pervasive corruption and violence that are the goals and examples set by coups.
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 10, 2019, under the title "Army stunts nation" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/1709775/pms-moves-a-concern
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