re: "Tolerating populism for democracy" (BP, Opinion, October 13, 2023)
Dear editor,
Professor Thitinan Pongsudhirak brilliantly exposes the demon besetting Thailand's politics these several decades: that 99 is Thailand's 666.
That legally mandated possession by supernatural sacredness explains much of why Thailand is what it is when its people should long have been enjoying the economic success and global stature of South Korea or Taiwan. Maintaining the numerological perfections of 99ish myth has cost the Thai people much. Unless exorcized, its insatiable demand for yet more obeisance, and US dollars by the billion, will continue to inflict its manifestly traditional harms.
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 17, 2023, under the title "Hocus pocus" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/2665611/praise-for-milk
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