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How to read about
the French revolution in this Thai blog
Some years ago,
a couple of readers had asked me to tell the story of the French revolution. I considered
their asking a challenge, and I accepted it because writing this topic at that time
was a test of social skill. I had friends (and foes) on both sides of political
spectrum at that moment.
However, I never
thought then, and I don’t think now, that the readers and I perceive the story
of the French revolution in the same perspective. Needless to say but say it
anyway, I’m not impartial in looking at the French revolution because during
all of my existential years I’ve learned to have my worldview. Let me
illustrate the point: to me Louis XVI is Mr.Hakka 1er, and
Marie-Antoinette is Madame la Grande Mademoiselle, as a Hakka woman, with
a character of the insipid red wine, she fits well the role of la
Austrichienne, a foreign woman parachuted to high power politics in France,
a country and culture she doesn’t belong. In parallel comparison, both of my
protagonists, she and her brother cannot even speak Thai properly. Both of them
were then, and are now, too weird and unaccomodatable for us whose power of
assimilation and empathy is self-evident and legendary. They were then, and are
now, up to our necks.
As for the
Austrian and foreign armies threatening France during the French revolution, by
analogy, they are well represented by a group of foreign journalists led by
Mr.Jonathan Head of the BBC – Bangkok, who rallied behind Louis XVI-Mr.Hakka
1er and Marie-Antoinette, Madame la Grande Mademoiselle, and their enormous
sweet smell bankroll, yummy yummy. For a some time, he had been appointed their
de facto Foreign Minister until dethroned by Mr.Daniel R. Russel, le pauvre.
All of them, Mr.Hakka 1er, Madame la
Grande Mademoiselle, and Mr.Jonathan Head of the BBC, knew how to shamelessly
take advantage to the maximum of our largesse and open-mindedness.
The bunch of
Anglo-American newsmen shoddily trained in archaic tout-à-fait depassé
journalism couldn’t be labelled as stupid, silly and insane, not because I am a
good pupil of the Economist Style Guide, the precept number two, and that I’ll never
breach it for whatever big cause – how pretentious; but because they smartly
and cleverly knew how to unabashfully expoit, in overdrive mode, our kind
nature. Cracher sur la soupe? Yes! Because they are forever needy and greedy.
Stupid, silly and insane? No! Because they are intelligent enough…or rather, clever.
The
revolutionaries are numerous, uncountable and mostly unaccountable.
Armed with this
clear perspective, I ran lengthy articles on the French revolution in this blog
and in my former blog, some of their links appear below, with la conscience tranquille,
très tranquille même. I hope this short modest note of clarification could
help a few readers of mine.
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