They Don't Have Very Good Writers At The Nation

[mongoose11]

So I might be stating the obvious but the following extract comes from the Nation today:

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Amid discord, let us together rediscover note of harmony

By The Nation

Published on May 21, 2010

Everything looks irreparable _ the gutted CentralWorld, what was left of Siam Theatre, the charred skeletons of Centre One, among others.

The lives lost can't be got back. The country's image lies in ruins. And just when we thought the unbelievable feelings of hatred couldn't spread any futher, they have deepened and threatened to keep on deepening.

Many fires are still smouldering and to some it's not practical to talk about rebuilding now. The "war" is not over, even far from it, they say. The blazes around the City of Angels may be dying, but fresh flames of anger have been ignited in the hearts of people on both sides and they look almost certain to rage for a long time.

The scenes were compared to the aftermath of 9/11. The pictures may appear strikingly similar, but there is one huge difference. The gigantic rubbles of the World Trade Centre united Americans, but here people looking at the smoking corpse of CentralWorld are torn apart by how they feel. The rich and the poor hugged before the WTC's massive graveyard and shed collective tears for those who died, but here very few people weep for torched CentralWorld and the slain red shirts at the same time.

How can we begin reconstruction? How do we go from here? Reconciliation was already hard even when CentralWorld still stood and the red-shirt protesters were still singing and dancing at Rajprasong. Who could possibly re-unite Thais under these trying circumstances? With everyone more or less responsible for breaking the glass, who should fix it?

Maybe it's too much ideology, which has infested us and led us astray. Maybe solutions lie in the basic instincts of the firemen trying to control the CentralWorld inferno and journalists or ordinary onlookers attempting to save lives of people hit by bullets, no matter who they were.

There must be something good about us for we have lived together this long as a nation.

Whatever that something is, we must rediscover and resuscitate it. It's normal for the head and heart to go separate ways sometimes but when the body is down sprawling, there's no choice but for both entities to tell it to get up.

Now is it just me or does that read pretty badly ?

It reads like something I'd put together lol with a few spelling mistakes and grammatical errors thrown in for good measure.

Plus how are the pictures of the collapsed Central World strikingly similar to The World Trade Center collapse? - that's going a bit too far.

[mongoose11]

Maybe it's too much ideology,

And too much ideology?

To much of "what" ideology?

I'll let it go.