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Where history begins anew
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 04/01/2016
» When does history begin? We are at the start of 2016, when it's still not too late to say Happy New Year, and our perception of time and space has hit a refresh button. The year, new and old, is a necessary illusion that gives us a sense of order in this disorderly universe. What has happened has become "history", but history is not always in the past, not always dictated by the BC, AD, the Buddhist BE or the Islamic AH.
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Remembering Roger Ebert
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 09/04/2013
» Last Wednesday Roger Ebert announced on his blog that he'd take a "leave of presence", meaning generally that he'd be writing less, due to the reappearance of cancer in his body. On Thursday, I saw a wire service report about that and put it in this section for the Friday paper. Little did I know. Little did we all know.
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An online cacophony
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 08/05/2013
» In the ante-Facebook, pre-Twitter, afore-social network era, how did you hurl insults at your enemies? Let me paraphrase, how did you publicise your hatred of someone, the hatred so unforgiving to that person's soul and maybe to your own? In other words, how did you call him/her names in public for the full humiliating effect _ the humiliation of that person and maybe, again, that boomerangs to hit you?
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Learning from Laos
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 11/12/2012
» I was in Luang Prabang last weekend _ for a film festival, of all things. A giant screen was put up in the main square near the Handicraft Market, and for five nights people _ mostly local, with a fair sprinkling of tourists _ turned up in the hundreds to watch movies under the black night. Luang Prabang, with its functional archaeology of ancient, glorious buildings, has no cinemas. That's even better, we could say, for the effort to boost the appetite for moving images and the idea of movies as a collective experience.
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Learning from the glorious US election circus
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 12/09/2012
» Naturally, I can't vote either for Barack Obama or Mitt Romney. I have no stakes, at least not a direct, constitutional one, in the upcoming US presidential election. I don't play stocks (that's the verb right, "to play"?) so the number of new jobs created in the US that gets reported sometimes with panic and sometimes with relief has nothing to do with my financial well-being. I never lived in the US _ the longest stretch I spent in that country was a seven-day work trip. In short, American politics and especially American elections shouldn't have concerned me.
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Encouraging bibliophilia, by any device
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 11/07/2012
» The jokes, mostly mean, have already been rampant. Bangkok is designated by Unesco as the World Book Capital for next year. The chorus has already sung: REALLY? But as professional purveyors of text, we're gladdened, emboldened, optimistic, dancing half-naked, the dream of selling more copies of this glorious newspaper and perhaps a bigger bonus already swimming in our head. The smell of success is sweetest when it's mixed with ink, or maybe, e-ink.
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Triumph and the Trojan Horse
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 22/05/2012
» Snap-happy revellers never learn the lesson. Photographic records of sin aren't supposed to be worse than sin itself, but sometimes they are close. The latest incident, quickly dubbed the army scandal, involved a photo showing a group of soldiers in an act that looks like an orgy with a woman. A gang rape, some charged. Mutual consent, others defended. Punishment, however, has been rightly promised by the Army Chief against the participants. To observers, the moral and philosophical debates entail: is such punishment is meted out against the orgy, or against taking pictures of the orgy and posting them online?
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Silence, please!
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 28/03/2012
» Silence has now joined the Bengal tiger on the list of endangered species.
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