{"id":193,"date":"2021-09-09T01:17:32","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T01:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thisrupt.co\/?p=193"},"modified":"2022-05-14T01:17:48","modified_gmt":"2022-05-14T01:17:48","slug":"fakeness-in-the-rice-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisrupt.co\/index.php\/2021\/09\/09\/fakeness-in-the-rice-field\/","title":{"rendered":"Fakeness in the rice field"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Call it elitist mentality.<br>Call it feudal mentality.<br>Call it a narcissistic obsession.<br>Call it by any other name; it\u2019s Thailand all the same.<br><br>The rigid social hierarchy expects the poo-noi (social inferior) to slobber at the feet of the poo-yai (social superior).<br><br>This backward belief system does not recognize the rights of the people. Rather, it applauds the fake generosity of the poo-yai who see the people as charity cases.<br><br>The mentality is this: Let the poo-noi eat leftover scraps in return for undying gratitude and loyalty. So we, the poo-yai, may continue to prance around this rice field in our Gucci shoes and sing off-key the delusional chorus line, \u201cwe are good people.\u201d<br><br>The mentality of Thailand\u2019s rulers isn\u2019t stuck in the 20th century.<br>Their mentality is stuck in the 12th century.<br><br>The video (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bVzMeVjL6TQ&amp;fbclid=IwAR06JuY7QeZYYhQtJ-oLNJeK8NGSRGCR3f926mN3V_xaesnGkaOeohYqD70\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bVzMeVjL6TQ<\/a>) shows an image of Education Minister Trinuch Thienthong, followed by the description of a project to assist each student\u2019s family with 2,000 baht.<br><br>Then comes a series of school children wai-ing and bowing heads ever-so politely, saying \u201ckhob khun ka\/krub\u201d in gentle voices, mini-hearts popping up on the screen.<br><br>Next, a uniformed student recited a script thanking the Education Minister, calling her the lofty title of \u201ctan.\u201d Finally, an image of the school principal pops up, decked out in full civil servant uniform, thanking the Education Minister.<br><br>So touching. So heartwarming. Doesn\u2019t it just bring tears to your eyes?<br><br>Don\u2019t you wish you could also give away taxpayers\u2019 money and take all the credits? With a PR team directing students to film themselves to thank you?<br><br>According to The Momentum, many district offices across the kingdom ordered students and schools to do exactly this.<br><br>There\u2019s nothing wrong with financial assistance. But there\u2019s everything wrong with forcing people\/children to slobber at the feet of the Education Minister.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Call it elitist mentality.Call it feudal mentality.Call it a narcissistic obsession.Call it by any other name; it\u2019s Thailand all the same. The rigid social hierarchy expects the poo-noi (social inferior) to slobber at the feet of the poo-yai (social superior). This backward belief system does not recognize the rights of the people. Rather, it applauds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[38,37,12,14,13],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thisurpt","tag-poo-noi","tag-poo-yai","tag-thailand","tag-thisrupt","tag-whatshappeninginthailand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisrupt.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisrupt.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisrupt.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisrupt.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisrupt.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thisrupt.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195,"href":"https:\/\/thisrupt.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions\/195"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisrupt.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisrupt.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisrupt.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisrupt.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}