Welcome to my world...

Just read this quote from the Straits Times, Asia Section:

"We used to act as a watchdog for society but now we are merely lapdogs and circus dogs for the government"
Thai journalist Kavi Chonkittavorn, on the state of the media in his country

Hehe, someone in the Straits Times finally discovered a sense of humour and attempts to strike some mild dissent at the local governement. Well, Kavi, better start getting used to it. Just look at your Prime Minister, Thaksin with his recent faux pas with the whole bird flu. He was interviewed a few months ago and admitted to looking up to Malaysia's ex-Prime Minister, Mahatir and Singapore's Senior Minister, Lee Kuan Yew as strong models for himself on how to run a country. He expressed his admiration for the two statesmen for being able to bring about economic and political stability to their respective countries.

So, welcome to my world, Kavi, of non-dissent where the media has too many boundaries that they can't over step. My world where there are more arm-chair political critics (hurhur, like me) than people who are willing to go out on the streets to protest. My world where people have been socially engineered not to give a shit about anything else except for money and their own wealth accumulation. My world where the people have never been introspective to even note that they were socially engineered as economical tools for the very few social elite right at the top. My world which what Thailand would soon become if Thaksin's government would still be in power 30 years down the road.