Thai safety centre to study road smashes, offer ways to cut toll

[Porkster]

It's funny reading all these posts. I don't mean the posts are funny. Actually, they are quite accurate in a lot of their suggestions and comments for improving things.

But the overall and outstanding issue that hangs over all of this like a specter is that, AGAIN, all the Thais do is talk about a problem. AGAIN, nothing gets done. AGAIN, they dodge the real issues of behavior and attitude in this society and culture, ...and that is where the real issues lie; their brains.

Every tool out there, that is needed to make this problem go away overnight, is readily available to everyone. These tools are not material, and moreover they are lodged in the brain of every Thai out there; conscientiousness, common sense, restraint, self-will, self-discipline, generosity, compassion, self-awareness, environmental awareness, problem-solving skills, caution, etc. etc. ad nausea...

Regrettably, every one of these tools is stifled, snuffed out, buried deep, avoided, ignored, quenched, quelled, etc. for the mere and simple reasons that they are undeveloped - attitude-wise and behavioral-wise - in these higher levels of consciousness, because of their culture and anything related to it utterly forbids it. We all know the reasons, routines, etc. We all read about it daily and we all experience it or are subjected to it daily.

The attitude and behavior here, singularly in each Thai, works against the system. Each seems to go into a feeding frenzy any time some good opportunity comes along. Each window of opportunity is wasted, and cannibalized to its bare bones. The resulting consequences are always half-baked, bare minimum, barely working, dysfunctional, undermanned, low-skilled, poor quality, second rate, etc.

Without being able to develop the natural instincts and intuitions which activate conscientiousness, common sense, restraint, self-will, self-discipline, generosity, compassion, self-awareness, environmental awareness, problem-solving skills, caution, etc. etc. ad nausea... then nothing will ever get done, and the subsequent "finished product" will always remain unfinished. Only their utterly mind-beggaring cockiness will see their unfinished work as a "HUB" of reality and success, and cause for some great celebration of this mediocrity that they continually churn out.

At a grass roots level, seeing people constantly pull out in front of others without so much as a glance just about says it all. Dumb. Stupid. Ignorant. Selfish. Arrogant. Impetuous. Compulsive. Impulsive, etc. All of these things are the first born characteristics of a human being that, if not weaned out of the characteristic by the good things mentioned above, will be the first behavior and first attitude that engages and affects what is seen as action.

I am suggesting that as long as this culture forbids the kind of behavioral adjustments and attitude changes that will unleash these higher levels of consciousness, then these problems and issues will always be nothing more than mimicry of those who do have these characteristics; ...but it will fall short and lie dormant at the point of action.

The material tools are in their hands, and they never use them. Unless they have someone prodding them and driving them with fear or crisis, they never act, and never see it through.

This is my general view and take on the situation, and even the exceptions are lacking. This is simply a more in-depth interpretation of what I call FACE, and it will be cause for years and years of regret and suffering as the world turns. All talk and no show. All talk and no working examples. They can't even manage the simple things, and all for the reasons I stated above...

Behavior and attitude.

So ubonjoe

You don't see this as a Thai bashing post then?

Probably because the intellect at TV office doesn't stretch that far...