《兒子說想跟我聊聊北韓》
連著好幾晚,躺在我右側的女兒吵著我唸《My Weird School》這套故事書給她聽;兒子則吵著要跟我聊「北韓」話題。
我實在分身乏術,心想如果他跟我談的是德國納粹種族主義(Nazis )(Holocaust),我還可以推薦他先閱讀幾本青少年讀物如《The Diary of Anne Frank》《The Boy in the Striped Pajamas》《Number the Stars 》暫且打發。
怎奈關於「北韓」,我唯獨想到的作品竟只有那部瘋迷主婦圈的韓劇《愛的迫降》。家庭主婦不知北韓人間疾苦,滿腦子想到的只有玄彬與孫藝珍在於北韓那段令人揪心的浪漫戀情👩❤️👨。
等女兒入睡後,我走進兒子的房間,他正拿著Kindle閱讀,
『來吧!我們來聊聊北韓!』我鑽進他被窩。
他先跟我分享了幾部關於北韓的Youtube短片,直呼這國家的存在太不可思議,令他困惑。
其實我更困惑,這議題是如此龐大高深。要先了解人類社會的演進,要牽扯到封建走向資本主義的革命歷程,再進階到社會主義,共產主義。再談點馬克思主義及柏拉圖哲學裡的理想國及烏托邦。
其實我知道的也都只是雞皮蒜毛,隨便胡湊瞎掰,想證明媽媽也是有讀過萬卷書。
兒子聽得一頭霧水一臉茫然,他很難理解我話中的意思,因為我百分之八十都是用中文亂掰。
但要用英文去談馬克思主義,天哪!我甚連這單字都不知道怎麼拼?
只不過是想跟兒子聊個天,竟得先孤身深夜裡寒窗苦讀,除了重頭搞清楚人類社會歷史的來龍去脈外,還得查詢所有重要英文單字。
這母職怎麼會高深莫測到我無法招架😔。
為了加強兒子的深刻思考,我只先在紙上列出的幾個重點單字及問題,再請兒子自己Google找出答案,並與我討論。
🤓這一年來,我跟兒子之間若有難以溝通的問題,不論情感上、想法上、知識上,我都會列出問句,請他紙上答覆。他很喜歡用這樣的方式與我交換想法。
🥺好想念那段親子時光,只需手裡捧著隨便一本繪本,開嗓亂唸,便能把他們逗得笑呵呵,哄得傻楞楞啊!
若您的孩子恰巧對於這主題有興趣的,也可以參考。
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Definition:
Feudalism→ Capitalism → Socialism / Communism / Marxism (Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels)
封建主義→資本主義→社會主義/共產主義/馬克思主義(卡爾.馬克思及弗里德里希·恩格斯)
The Republic by Plato (柏拉圖之理想國)
- What countries have been socialist? (那些國家曾經是社會主義?)
- What countries still have socialism? (現在仍存在社會主義的國家為何?)
- What are the characteristics of a socialism?(社會主義國家主要特色有哪些?)
- Why does Socialism fail ?(為什麼社會主義失敗?)
- We once read the book《The Giver》together. Is there anything that resembles Socialism in this book?(我們曾一起閱讀過《The Giver》這本書,書裏頭有那些類似社會主義的地方?)
- What are the characteristics of capitalism?(資本主義的主要特色為何?)
- Could you tell me the pros and cons of capitalism?(你能告訴我資本主義的優缺點嗎?)
- Do you think American capitalism is good for the 2020s? (你認為資本主義對美國未來的近十年是正向的嗎?)
- How can capitalism be improved?(資本主義該如何改善?)
- Are Nordic countries socialist or capitalist?(北歐五國是社會主義還是資本主義?)
- Could you share me more about North Korea in detail?(你可以更詳盡再分享多些你對於北韓的看法嗎?)
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My thoughts on what's happening in the gaming community:
With everything that's happening in the gaming scene, what concerns me the most is the fact that gamer are questioning other gamers if they are really "gamers". This is good and bad for me personally. Good, because people now feel that being called a gamer is kind of a priveldge and a title one must carry with credibility. Bad, this is because we gamers ourselves are creating an elitist mentality in which we don't want to recognize people we think aren't gamers.
What the hell started all this? There are numerous reasons why this is happening but let me give you five reasons why I think this behavior in our gaming society nowadays.
1. The rise of mobile gaming
Mobile games since its inception has always been called casual games. No gamer before ever treated their cellphone as a gaming device because we had better toys called the playstation, xbox and of course the personal computer.
Up until the rise of mobile esports titles such as mobile legends, AOV and the transfer of Hearthstone to Mobile, competitive games were non-existent in this platform thus stigma of casual gaming in mobile phones remain to this day. I think those games changed this platform and some gamers who are used to playing other platforms that I mentioned above haven't fully accepted the idea of mobile gamers being part of the gaming community.
On the other side, the mobile gamers have the same mentality as when they see people who suck at mobile games even though they came from pc or console, they'll easily tag someone as a pretender. I see this a lot. The truth is, not all gamers can be good in multiple platforms thus judging someones' skill in one game for me is really unfair as he/she might be good in a pc game but that doesn't mean that that will translate to console and mobile and vice versa.
In the end I think what's creating this is the competitive drive of gamers to be categorized as the upper echelon of the gaming society. I don't think this is a bad thing because we are wired to be like this. All games have ladders, rankings, points and other measures to see if where you are in the gaming pyramid. I think what's happening here is a result of that mentality and that mindset translating into the gaming society.
2. The facebook gaming wave
In the days of twitch, gamers were streaming in front of other gamers while in this era of facebook gaming. Streaming games has turned into a trend but this content is not just in front of gamers but it's in everyone's newsfeed. I think that has contributed to all the toxicity as it is an effect of a culture shock from the people who are not used to seeing people gaming in their feeds.
I really believe that this will pass. I've been in facebook long enough to know that wild reactions always exist when things change. It's just a simple reality that we must accept. Not everyne can cope to change as easy as others and not everyone is open to change like others. What i'm saying here is that all these streams in fb is a huge change, in my eyes it's for the better as people now see that gaming is cool, mainstream and it's happening. You can't stop it, no one can, that's what i saw from day one and i don't really get it why people are so surprised that gaming has turned into an industry.
3. There is no one true definition of what is a gamer?
No academic study has been conducted yet of what a gamer is and the layers of its society. I think gaming has become so big that we have to recognize that there are numerous types of gamers already. Before these were the type of gamers.
1. PC gamer
2. Console gamer
Now, there are so many gaming categories i personally don't even know how to count. On top of my head:
1. Pro-gamer
2. Game streamer
3. Casual gamer
4. Mobile gamer
5. Pc gamer
6. Console gamer
7. MMO gamer
And many many more..
At one point the gaming society has to understand that even inside the "niche" that is gaming, the whole gaming community is still diverse. It's composed of different type of people who have different gaming behaviors.
My point? That this whole mess is because we are lost in translation of what a gamer actually is. This is the reason why we hear the accusations like "di ka naman gamer" a lot because in the middle of all this, we forgot what a gamer is.
4. Sando streams
You have to accept the fact that when Bianca Yao started calling her group sando gang and continously wore sando on stream.
Streamers realized this... It works.. because of that the whole streaming community were brought to three school of thoughts.
1. I'll apply what she's doing
2. I will not recognize its effectivity and say something bad about it because i might lose viewership if beauty becomes the currency so i'll make it a point that people should think skill should be the only currency.
3. I don't care
Whatever your position is on this matter, or if i may have missed some school of thought. The competition for viewership has created this stigma that when you're pretty you're just using your beauty for the views. All this skill being the currency for streamer credibility has came from nowhere but the people who are skilled.
Simplehan ko at tagalugin ko. May nagtanong pano mo po ba masasabing magaling kang streamer??
Sabi ng maganda: "Pagmaganda ka"
Sabi ng magaling: "Pagmagaling ka"
Sabi ng entertaining: "Pagentertaining ka"
All of them are right it's just that people tend to want their currency to be the currency to define what a successful streamer is because they want to discredit their competition and that's capitalism. Sa mundo na to obviously kaya magaling ang nagiging currency ng streaming kasi yung mga magagaling d makakuha ng views and they feel like hindi dapat yanun yung nangyayari kaya sinasabi nila "bakit kayo nanonood sa maganda lang". So in effect nagiging ganito yung society. Don't get me wrong, i personally am neutral about this i'm just trying to explain the roots of this behavior.
5. Gaming is big and it has officially entered mainstream
Despite lahat ng drama kaya nangyayari lahat ng to kasi malaki na tayo. Congrats sating lahat. We got here. Now it's time to fix ourselves. Kung tinapos mo to comment Fix and your thoughts on what i wrote.
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Thaksin Shinawatra in Private Discussion
World Policy Institute Global Leader Briefing Series Thinking Points
World Policy Institute, 9th March 2016, New York
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Excellencies, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I must thank you World Policy Institute for providing me an opportunity to share my thought on the challenges that revolve around the economic, regional and global implications of how Thailand will make its way through a period of transition and change.
We all know that no society in the twenty-first century can sustain any form of “progress” in the well-being of its people without at least two basic foundations:
The first one is political stability. The second one is the ability to create economic activities that allow growth and readiness to shift its creativities to sustain wealth.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Let me tell you the tale of the two cities, which is not written by Charles Dickens. It is the tale of parallel progress of Washington D.C. and Beijing. Each has its own history, pain and loathing. As the years go by, the two cities have been seen as rivals which offers competing models for growth and prosperity.
One is Free Market-Capitalism with the so-called “Open Democracy” as the foundation of its economic model. The other one is State-Led Capitalism with the central control system by one party.
Both of the models have proven to be successful in a very dramatic way from the past to the present. Admitting that the Chinese model was fitting to the change of attitude among the leadership of the country at that time, in parallel with the change of economic model in the West, in which the definition of “free trade” benefits China’s shifting position from a close market to a semi-open market.
But we must admit also that both models are now having to adjust itself to the new reality; the reality of dramatic change in speed and character of technology for industrial production; the change from “a country-based product” to “network of global design, global sourcing,and global production for just one product”. This extraordinary change upends the “normal” internal economic adjustment of the country and made it very difficult to find a simple economic adjustment.
We must recognize that advancement in the wealth management technique and technology also upend the normal linkage between capital and changes in production. However, we probably agree, that one common threat for survival in this present so-called “New Normal” is either you have the ability and willingness to change or you don’t. Thailand, like the other countries, cannot get away from this New Normal in the international context.
Ladies and Gentleman,
There is a tale of a poor English teacher in China who soared to the list of the world’s wealthiest people. He neither built a big factory nor invested in any production facility. But, people paid for his service simply to reach the network of supply and demand on a grand scale. I believe, he must feel thank you to the internet.
Ladies and Gentleman,
Amid the global economic slowdown, the pattern of trade has significantly changed. Due to the development of information technology infrastructure and increasing number of population who is able to access to the internet, e-commerce has become a new engine that sustains growth for both developed and developing economies. According to UNCTAD’s report last year, the value of global business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce in 2013 exceeded $15 trillion USD. While global business-to-consumer (B2C) e-commerce still accounted for an estimated $1.2 trillion USD, this segment has grown at a rapid pace; especially in the Asia and Oceania region where B2C segment is expected to surge from 20 to 37 percent between 2013 to 2018. Due to the incremental growth of cross-border e-commerce trade, international postal deliveries of small packets and parcels have risen by 48 percent between 2011 to 2014 globally.
For both Asia and the West, I believe these numbers provide us with clues for the new growth opportunities where “access to networks” is the key: meaning, the networks of consumers and factors of production across geographical boundaries. Unlike the economy of twentieth century when “access to centers” is the rules of the game, today, businessmen who do not have big factories and are not the owners of multinational corporations, can manage to reach and satisfy the needs of their customers worldwide through networks of production and distribution with an assist of the new communication technology. Today’s economy is increasingly decentralized. Consumption and production are more and more dispersed. We could imagine that an American producers can sell their products online directly to consumers in the western part of China without having to spend business hours in Beijing or Shanghai. Vice versa, a Chinese producer can bypass New York to offer their products to customers in New England and Mid-Atlantic states. The network economy has provided the people, both in small and large businesses, with the ability to produce and access to consumers at lower costs. We, as a global community, must put special emphasis on how each country can invest and share risk with the people to create growth collectively.
Ladies and Gentleman,
Another tale is about the rebirth of a road that nobody cares since the Portuguese discovered a possible sea route from Europe to Asia. The Portuguese did offer an alternative trade route with substantial margins for the goods carried. Although you might lose half of the cargoes on the way, you still did not lose your shirt. Since the demand for spices were overwhelming, the merchant marines heavily charge everybody.
Ladies and Gentleman,
The heavy-load transport through the sea has been with us till now, and the land routes from Asia to Europe have been neglected. If the world’s economy is thriving like the good old days, probably, not so many people would be interested in finding an alternative in life. But, since the situation goes awry, I believe, any country should consider all possibilities.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Today, there are two major initiatives that, I think, have great potential to accelerate growth and leverage “quality of growth” that brought into being by the emergence of network economy. One is the China-led “One Belt, One Road” (OBOR) plan to develop transport and logistics connectivity encompassed some 60 countries, which include about 50 percent of the world’s GDP. And, the other is the US-led Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) between 12 Pacific Rim countries, which account for more than 40 percent of the world’s GDP. I have not seen these two initiatives as antagonistic, but rather a kind of two parallel processes that, at a certain point, will create mutual economic benefits for Asia and the West.
We must overcome the stereotype that perceive China and the US as merely the two opposing political superpowers. In reality, the economic development during the past decade has shown us how far these two major economies are interdependent. China is the largest foreign holder of US government securities with $1.24 trillion USD worth. With the total trade volume of $521 billion USD in 2014, the US is China’s biggest trade partner. Total US foreign direct investment (FDI) in China stood at $65.77 billion USD at the end of 2014, while the Chinese FDI in the US is estimated to have reach $11.9 billion USD.
Given this interdependence in mind, I believe Southeast Asia- the region that sits in between the two great initiatives of the two major economies- must put special emphasis on how to enhance the mutual economic benefits with its counterparts. For Southeast Asia in the twenty-first century, the geopolitics should be about how to reinforce the networks of wealth creation for the people that stretch across national and regional borders.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Let me tell you the last tale about a Thai restaurant. No matter how many times the master chef tries to teach his protege, the young man keeps making mistakes in mixing the ingredients. Customers are kept waiting, hungry and mad. Once the customers are served, half of them get diarrhea afterward. The moral of this tale is one must make the written recipe right.
Ladies and gentlemen,
While some people may underline the unique characteristics of Thailand in terms of its history and developmental path, the country itself cannot avoid to come to terms with the global challenges of the twenty-first century. For half a century, the Thai economy has incrementally integrated into global economy. Values of Thailand’s exports per GDP and FDI in the country have shown us clearly how far the growth of Thai economy has been interwoven with the fate of global economy.
Against this context, we shall consider Thailand’s draft constitution with a very simple question: will the latest draft constitution “enable” the country to grow and become stronger in the present world? Or, will the latest draft constitution provide Thailand with a sufficient institutional infrastructure for investment, production, cooperation, and businesses?
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Due to the framework set out by the latest draft constitution, it is difficult to foresee a government that is responsive to the people and the challenges of the twenty-first century. According to the new draft, the 200-seat upper house, or Senate, will be appointed by the so-called “experts”. The Senate will also have greater powers to block legislation. Regarding the Constitutional Court, its scope of jurisdiction will be expanded. The Court will have the power to examine cases based on petitions filed directly by individuals, without the requirement that an actual dispute being brought by political organs or other courts.
If we consider the doctrine of separation of powers as the foundation for growth and stability, the critical issue that we shall examine is whether the judicial power will trespass the provinces of legislature/ and executive or not? For a government to be able to manage the economy against the global slowdown, I do hope that there will be no over-enforcement of the judicial power. Experiences of several countries show us that, if unchecked, judicial review can be inappropriately used as “delaying tactic”; thus, in turn, become an impediment to economic policy implementation.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I believe that the foundation for the country to create growth and prosperity is to build trust in the global community. The constitution shall protect the rule of law and provide at least a minimum level of freedom of speech that facilitates economic cooperation between the people and the global community. Trade and investment cannot flourish if there is no certain degree of confidence provided by the rule of law. Against the transition and change, Thailand must reevaluate its strength and weakness. The country shall find a sensible way to regain its political stability and economic dynamism. I have only proposed the way of how should we think of the phenomena that is the world today.
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