Category: Politics

• Labels: Useful Heuristics or Dangerous Stereotypes?

  

  They say love blinds and power corrupts. Well, I’m starting to think morality is pretty good at both. When I was depressed in early 2013, I began attending weekly CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) sessions in the hope that it would make me better. During one of these sessions, the therapist (counsellor? psychiatrist? I never quite…

  valsaksornchai

  March 9, 2014

  Curiosities, Economics, Life, Mind, Politics, Psychology, Thailand

  Americans, awareness, brain, CBT, cognition, Depression, doctors, Education, ignorant American, label, labelling, labels, moral, morality, philosophy, Politics, Psychology, stereotype, stereotypes, stereotyping, super computers, Thailand, world

• On Democracy

  Fictional Lincoln on democracy: All we’ve done is show the world that democracy isn’t chaos. That there is a great, invisible strength in a people’s union. Say we’ve shown that a people can endure awful sacrifice and yet cohere. Mightn’t that save at least the idea of democracy to aspire to? Eventually to become worthy…

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  December 25, 2013

  Bangkok, Photography, Politics, Thailand

  Bangkok, democracy, Democracy Monument, elections, flags, Protests, reform, Thai flag, Thailand, ThaiUprising

• Hyeonseo Lee: My Escape from North Korea (TED)

  

  When I was young, I thought my country was the best on the planet.

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  December 21, 2013

  Life, Personalities, Politics, Talks

  China, escape, Hyeonseo Lee, Korean peninsula, North Korea, North Koreans, Politics, South Korea, TED, Thailand

• Not Another Post on Politics: Events v.s. Facts

  War does not determine who is right – only who is left. The above quote, often attributed to Bertrand Russell, keeps ringing in my head. I first saw it this morning on a friend’s Facebook page (that’s where everything seems to be these days). And I couldn’t get it out of my head. I’m not…

  valsaksornchai

  December 1, 2013

  Bangkok, Curiosities, Economics, Life, Mind, Politics, Thailand

  Bangkok, Bertrand Russell, conflict, events, Facebook, facts, government, Immanuel Kant, political, Politics, proof, Protests, reason, red shirts, Suthep Thaugsuban, Thailand, Thaksin Shinawatra, Thought, yellow shirts, Yingluck Shinawatra

• A plea to Thais out there…

  It’s your right to hate, but I think it’s your duty – as a citizen of our constitutional monarchy – not to incite hatred among others. I don’t want to be rude. But all these posts and status updates about how the ‘other’ side is disseminating lies and should therefore be condemned and opposed at…

  valsaksornchai

  December 1, 2013

  Life, Politics, Reason, Thailand

  Bangkok, constitutional monarchy, Democrat Party, Pheu Thai, Politics, Suthep Thaugsuban, Thailand, Yingluck Shinawatra