Day 2: Propanda and shit

The progress has been interesting. It would be very interesting in the direction that we are heading.

Day 2: 1 June 2007

• Reported 2-3000 people have been protesting against the junta. Some are Taksin supporters. Others are just against the military period. Although the protesters have been asked to move location by the polic and the military, it had been rather peaceful.
• According to ABAC poll, 91.7% of Bangkokians support the court ruling, and 98% of Bangkokians want things to progress in peace.

There wasn't much going on, and thankfully so that nothing had turned violent as of yet. However, the most pressing thing would be how the result of the ABAC poll got distributed. Of course, one can question the validity of the poll regarding the demographic distribution of the interviewers, but I would leave that out of the question for now.

The problem is this... The result of the poll, at least for Hutch mobile phone users, are distributed by Contact Hutch via SMS, despite the fact that the users did not subscribe to any SMS news service or any kind of notification service. I'm not sure how it is for the users of other mobile companies, but considering that Hutch is owned by CAT, it seems like the government / junta want as any people to know of this particular poll result. Amazing.

It seems like I am staring right into the middle of the government propaganda. Amazing.

Even more amazing is the fact that we don't know whether what we believe is what really believe or what we have been conditioned to believe by the news around us.

The one thing that is most troubling is this: "When the trees fall in the woods, and nobody is there to hear it, then does that tree really fell?"

How much of the world we know is the real truth and how much is the perceived truth?

Scary.