Prime Minister suggests that people read George Orwell’s “Animal Farm”

[DrTuner]

25 minutes ago, monkeycu said:

Let them watch the cartoon, reading is not high on their can do list

Lots of cute pigs and bo-oi-oing sounds and at the end Napoleon Prayuth is standing on a golden pedestal with a buddha-like aura around his head.

 

Yeah they'll mod it a bit.

[Bournville]

The "Thai version"?555 Or the Thai language version? Or both?

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[Phuketshrew]

The resemblance in the photo on the book cover is uncanny. I don't think he does irony.

[baboon]

1 hour ago, bluesofa said:

He has loads.

He's aware the the most handsome man on the planet as well as being an accomplished songwriter, loved by everyone.

Is that you, Steven....?

[Mavideol]

1 hour ago, Father Fintan Stack said:

I think he has been pranked here. 

 

He's never read it that is for sure. 

or maybe he read it but didn't understood the meaning 555

[Eligius]

Great!

Now we can push Orwell as much as we want with impunity - in schools, at universities, everywhere: Orwell now (unbelievably, staggeringly) has the blessing of the Great One. Who would have thought it: Orwell is not only now being permitted, but publicly pushed and encouraged by our wise Leader!

 

Nineteen Eighty-Four - get set for an energetic and vigorous, pan-Thailand re-launch!

 

 

 

 

Edited May 30, 2019 by Eligius

[kotsak]

2 hours ago, nikmar said:

maybe he s confusing it  with "The Three Little Pigs"

[Bert got kinky]

the Thai version of George Orwell’s book “Animal Farm”

 

Maybe the Thai version of Animal Farm is different.

It might have all the ‘unliked’ bits removed, much like the expurgated version of Olsen's Standard Book of British Birds. ????

 

[dcpo]

The threat of communism, incarnated in the form of billionaire business men Thanathorn and Thaksin.

[JimSaints]

Moron don't know what Animal Farm is about - read "1984" that's exactly like Thailand

[wwest5829]

2 hours ago, PatOngo said:

Interested people, all seven of them, said they'd already read it!

Assume you are not counting farang who were required to read it in high school? 555

[Orton Rd]

Snowball is the evil plotter and traitor, translated into Thai as Thaksin????

[Artisi]

2 hours ago, bluesofa said:

He has loads.

He's aware the the most handsome man on the planet as well as being an accomplished songwriter, loved by everyone.

and the next ordained leader of Thailand - a leader that can only be described as par excellence …. 

[Artisi]

2 hours ago, nikmar said:

maybe he s confusing it  with "The Three Little Pigs"

even that would be a challenge, except for the huffing and puffing - that he understands 

 

[soalbundy]

how very brave of him, if not a little counter productive for his government, but of course nobody will read it.

[ocddave]

I'd give anything for him to expand on what he learned from the book, and how the current Thai situation and characters relate to those in the book. Only then will the Elite learn how scary this individual is, and what will happen if they hand him a dictatorship.

[Bert got kinky]

7 minutes ago, soalbundy said:

how very brave of him, if not a little counter productive for his government, but of course nobody will read it.

 

but of course nobody will read it.

 

Maybe that's the reason for the plug.

If a book is banned people will wonder why and want to read it to find out.

By recommending the book no one will bother reading it. 

[worgeordie]

The great General will see himself as Napoleon,read it ?

only if its Manga style.

regards worgeordie

[Krataiboy]

"By the end of the book," according to a reviewer, "the farm is very much as it was when the book began, only with pigs in charge instead of humans".

 

Read it? We live it.

 

 

[soalbundy]

Just now, Krataiboy said:

"By the end of the book," according to a reviewer, "the farm is very much as it was when the book began, only with pigs in charge instead of humans".

 

Read it? We live it.

 

 

Unfortunately that's the way life is, "I'd rather be a hammer than a nail"

[bluesofa]

2 hours ago, Justgrazing said:

Given the variation in standards of translation in Thailand hope its a bit better than the tran's job done on where ( or not ) to take a pony .. 

 

Or, to quote Stan Laurel in the 1930 Laurel & Hardy film Brats: “You can take a horse to water, but a pencil must be lead."

 

Edited May 30, 2019 by bluesofa
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[klauskunkel]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

Prime Minister suggests that people read George Orwell’s “Animal Farm”

What a devious move using reverse psychology

[bluesofa]

1 hour ago, baboon said:

3 hours ago, bluesofa said:

He has loads.

He's aware the the most handsome man on the planet as well as being an accomplished songwriter, loved by everyone.

Is that you, Steven....?

Ha ha! Nah, he doesn't do sarcasm as well as wot I do.

[bluesofa]

Would anyone have a link to this news article in the Thai press?

 

[champers]

It is an anti-communist book, anti-red in other words. You, or he, may equate that to being anti-Thaksin and all those allied to him such as that highly subversive FFP lot. I think that may be the message he is trying to convey ... or maybe not. ????

[Eligius]

1 hour ago, champers said:

It is an anti-communist book, anti-red in other words. You, or he, may equate that to being anti-Thaksin and all those allied to him such as that highly subversive FFP lot. I think that may be the message he is trying to convey ... or maybe not. ????

Orwell was against fascism, control-freakery, political hypocrisy, authoritarianism, and dictatorship - whether from the Left or the Right.

To the end of his life, however, he remained self-confessedly a DEMOCRATIC socialist (note the word, 'democratic').

 

I am sure he would have a lot to say about present-day Thailand (actually, there is no need for him to say it - as the Powers That Be in Thailand are enacting it all before our very eyes in exemplary fashion) ...

 

 

 

Edited May 30, 2019 by Eligius

[buanmeerugsaa]

4 hours ago, bluesofa said:

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That’s delusion, not self awareness. 

[genset]

2 hours ago, soalbundy said:

how very brave of him, if not a little counter productive for his government, but of course nobody will read it.

Ditto...

...Animal Farm themes center on the risks of government overreach, totalitarianism and repressive regimentation of all persons and behaviors within society...

 

Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it...

 

[khunPer]

The book is a political satire, I wonder who comrade Napoleon is supposed remind one of...????

[GarryP]

4 minutes ago, khunPer said:

The book is a political satire, I wonder who comrade Napoleon is supposed remind one of...????

Could Pravith be Squealer? Not sure about Snowball.