In search of a new 'magic eye'

Published: 28 Feb 2013 at 09.54
Online news: Opinion

"Magic Eye", back in the 1980s everyone knew how to sing the song: "ah-ah yaa ting ka-ya" or "no-no don’t throw the trash". We sang it and we lived it. Have trash in your hand? Better throw it in the bin, not on the street. Magic Eye is watching!

A Magic Eye poster (File Photo)

Magic Eye was a social campaign to clean up Bangkok created by Khunying Chodchoi Soponpanich in 1984. Everyone knew the Magic Eye logo and poster, they were everywhere. We loved the song. We loved the campaign. We bought the vision.

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isanfarang
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Discussion 27 : 01 Mar 2013 at 04.0027
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Thailand has been morally bankrupt for a very long time.The laws have been framed to entrench the positions of the elites,to benefit the super rich,to prevent the prosecution of political,military,police and business offenders or at best slow them down for many years.The law also imposes ludicrous fines on offenders that would amount to their lunch bill.Just look at the continued adulation of Thaksin and the murky arrest of Kamnan Poh.If you have money and power in Thailand it doesn't matter if you are a drug dealer or murderer they still line up for your birthday party.After 20 years of coming to Thailand it's only getting worse.
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Discussion 26 : 01 Mar 2013 at 02.1326
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Brilliant opinion piece. We should be proud of our city and country and work hard to make it a better place! However, a couple of things:

1. MLK quote should read "...a genuine leader is not a searcher FOR consensus, but a molder of consensus".
2. I believe the quote "If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader" is at best apocryphal. The quote can't be definitively attributed to John Quincy Adams.
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Discussion 25 : 28 Feb 2013 at 23.4225
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Sadly this problem is not unique to Bangkok or indeed Thailand . Where ever you look in the world , such leaders are in very short supply .
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Discussion 24 : 28 Feb 2013 at 22.2824
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In Switzerland - you know the place where democracy was born, were everybody is happy, where milk and honey are abundant (at least for the bankers) - there was some anecdote about the head of an advertising agency who seemingly said: "Give me enough money and I make a sac of potatoes member of the Swiss Federal Council"
As only big money can bring a candidate to power don't expect the candidate being more ...
Visions for better can only grew where people are in contact with reality, with the reality of the common people.
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Discussion 23 : 28 Feb 2013 at 22.1523
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'Who can be the leader to mold a consensus, to inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more? Who can be the moral conscience of a society, the builder of character?'

Not Thaksin that's for sure. He exemplifies all that is dragging Thailand down : unbridled greed, corruption as a norm, lying with every word and a feudal lust for 1 party power.
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Discussion 22 : 28 Feb 2013 at 21.4222
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It is a matter of choice, and why do you choose so? We know that one fundamental problem was the 'disappearance' of the left in Thailand, something Mr. Voranai seems unwilling to touch, even with a ten foot pole. We need names to be named and investigative journalism, and yes, many of those journalists will 'disappear', so will leaders and politicians of the new breed. But that is the price to pay...
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Discussion 21 : 28 Feb 2013 at 19.1721
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..............................AND?..............................A monkey already knows this.
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Discussion 20 : 28 Feb 2013 at 18.5520
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This country will never have true politicians who care...most importantly, about the people. The poor, the lower middle class...they are all expendable....the construction workers, the farmers, the poor....NOBODY cares one hoot for them! Why else can 20 people ride in the back of a pick-up truck? Politicians only care about what they can get out of their position in the government....nothing else...disgusting Thailand.
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Discussion 19 : 28 Feb 2013 at 18.1919
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Disc 1 and 12. You really don't expect Voranai to run for any political office, do you? He's a 'commentator'. He preaches from on high, and does it really well, but nothing more.
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Discussion 18 : 28 Feb 2013 at 18.1118
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it'a called: A social mediocrity pact, so don't stand up! you will make us all look bad! (lose face). The worse thing is that when this pact goes to an extreme ( I think this already happened in Thailand) a society goes from mediocre to pathetic. mai pen lai
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