Jakrapob - Early Thai History

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Well, however we have started of as a country in Patronage system.

Most of you who read about Thailand and it's brief history, because we decided to count our history 700 years ago and disregard the 300 years before that because it involved the Southern complexity.

That's why the history was chosen to start 700 years ago in Sukothai period where Sukothai was the capital city of what would become Thailand. In Sukothai at least in one the reigns of the Sukothai long history, we were led to know and believe that one of the Kings during Sukothai period, King Ramkamheang at the time to be more precisely.

Great brother oh I'm sorry Great Father Ramkamheang at the time because the idea of God like monarch hasn't arrived in this land yet during the Sukothai period. So he was or they were observed and regarded as the Great Fathers who could be benevolent to their people and gave the people what the people needed at the time.

One of the noted examples was that Great Father Ramkamheang or King Ramkamheang just to be short proposed to have a bell hung in front of his palace and anybody with specific problems could come and ring that bell and he or his people would come out and handle the problems.

That was one of the first lessons the Thai students learnt about Thai political regime that you have someone to depend upon.

When you have a problem turn to someone who can help you, so before we know it, we are led into the Patronage system because we asked about dependency before our own capability to do things.

These are the very basic concept that makes Thai people different from many peoples around the world.

So we started of like that, during the Sukothai period we had Kings that did things like that.

So people had duty to be loyal, people had duty to have faith in the system bestowed on them because that was the working system at that time and there was no competing system.

In other words, there was not there was no better idea on how a kingdom could be run so that it was the best system at the time.

Later on in Ayuthaya period, that was the capital city of a land for 400 and some years, the God like idea of monarch had been introduced with the Khmer civilization's influence. The idea of a King as a Demi-God as a representative from the Hindu Gods and the Gods beyond these Hindu Gods had arrived in our land at that time.

So the Patronage system of helping people or being dependable for people had been changed into the state of protection.

If you have loyalty to the King, unquestionable loyalty to the King, you would be protected, in order to show this protection more clearly, people who do otherwise must be punished.

So the very system in Ayuthaya period shows or showed that there was an evolution of the system, some people might call it regressive, some people would call it progressive. Whatever it might be in your opinion, it was a combination between the benevolence of the Great Fathers model and the Great Leaders model. In other words, the Kings of Ayuthaya were powerful and the concept of power were realized at the time that if people in power could be benevolent, you could benefit from that power as well. In other words Ayuthaya period taught Thai people to live with power, how to live with it. How to survived in it, and how not to be destroyed by it. But Ayuthaya period also triggered the new relationships in a land, the master slave relationship, the noble and commoners relationship. That was Ayuthaya.

Then came Rattanakosin period, I would eh bypass the 12 years of Thonburi period. In Rattanakosin period, in which we are now.

The Chakri Dynasty was the starter of this so called Rattanakorin Rattanakosin period.

What it it is? It's a combination of Ayuthaya and the new skills of what I would like to call knowledge management.

In other words, the glory of the chief father is combined with the power of Ayuthaya period and the Demi-God stature of the monarchs has been added during Rattanakosin period with the so-called knowledge management.

Knowledge is power at that time, it was perceived so. That's why King Mongkut spoke English in his court and he introduced science and probably technologies, inventions, foreign goods that were completely unknown to Thai people at that time. As one of the sources of his powers King Mongkut was seen not as a benevolent King, not as the best of the chief Father King but as the Father of science and technology. He's still regarded that way.

So in other words, the system in Thailand has been to the point that leaders and rulers have been finding the best way possible at that time to convince people that they are dependable. The sources of their being dependable varies over time, like I described to you.

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[Jakapob]

ที่ผ่านมาเร็วๆ นี้ โจนาธาน และ จักรภพ เป็น'เครื่องมือ'ทักษิณจริงหรือ­ไม่?

[Jakapob]

La police a déclaré hier que Jakrapob Penkair, ministre attaché au bureau du Premier ministre, faisait l'objet d'une enquête et pourrait être inculpé pour avoir insulté la famille royale lors d'une allocution au Club des Correspondants Etrangers (FCCT), au mois d'août dernier. La plainte pour lèse-majesté aurait été déposée par un officier de police avec vidéo du débat à l'appui, selon l'un de ses collègues.

[Jakapob]

The Thai Journalists Association, the Thai Broadcast Journalists Association, and the National Press Council of Thailand have warned PM's Office Minister Jakrapob Penkair to stop meddling with the mass media

[perkydesign]

Norway, Denmark & Sweden have royal family too. The election is to pick someone to work & make peace for our country. We didn't vote for them to establish their own power & steal public treasure. I was one of the poor too & I never complain the different between class in the society. Education changes people life & value. The value of human isn't count from the money but we count from the goodness. Thai politician just earn all benefit for themselves & why did you blame it on the royal family?

[toonandton]

อีดอก

[chuck0049]

@acientmon

Oh, thank to Thai that dumb khmer at Dang-rek mountain many buses then allowed to steped on landmine way back home to lie for 3 rd country many khmer dies and suffering, like here thai claimed allow khmer stay on their land but UN paid billion$ rent it. if you want to find out write it to UN commissioner ask for it.

[abdeenn3]

WHAT AN IDIOT THIS JERK IS!

[thaiusaful]

ถ้าช่วยกัน กด Flag คับ จะช่วยลบ VDO ได้คับ ตรงรูป ธง ช่วยบอกต่อด้วยคับ ไม่ต้อง กด dislike ไม่มีประโยชน์

[laovientiane]

ในประเทศสากลที่เจริญแล้ว และมีประชาธิปไตยสมบูรณ์ ไม่เคยมีนายกหรือกษัตริย์ตัวใหน­ออกโทรทัศน์โฆษณาว่าได้แจกทุนเด­็กเรียนหนังสือหรือ แจกถุงยังชีพ ..เค้ามีกฏหมายความั่นคงของสังค­มเป็นหลัก เด็กทุกคนได้รับทุนทุกคนตามกฏหม­าย..ไม่ใช่เงินจากนายกหรือกษัตร­ิย์ แต่เป็นเงินภาษีของประชาชน.มีใค­รลํ้าเลิศให้เทิดทูน

ประเทศไทยมีทรัพยากรที่ดีที่สุด­ในโลกประเทศหนึ่ง คือทรัพยากรมนุษย์ ที่โดนภูมิพลทําลายมานานหลายสิบ­ปี การทําให้ปชชทุกขเวทนาอดหยากคือ­นโยบายของกษัตริย์ เพื่อผลการโฆษณาชวนเชื่อแล้วขโม­ยสมบัติประชาชนนั่นเอง

[cheddyrod]

@LaLa9264 You wrote, ‘this guy need to learn more english’. The third person singular of the verb to need is needs, not need.

[KhmerSerey1]

Is jakrapop still alive ?? where is he these day ?? what have they done to him ??

[IHyRaXI]

i dont havea problem with thai either... as long as they dont talk bad or take preah vihear.... also i know the current thai goverment is run b the military... abshit and thai king work with the military ..... so thai people cant do much to stop it

[kang1996]

taking more land? obviously u dunno what's happening. the 3 provinces down south are trying to be independent and we lost the pra vihear temple to cambodia so we're taking more land are we? look i have nothing against cambodia or laos or any other neighbouring countries, it's just i can't stand people giving shit about my country, u probably feel the same

[IHyRaXI]

dumb ladyboy shut yer stupid mouth