Opinion pieces and commentary on Thailand's current affairs, in English, from Thai PBS World contributors.
Next week, the 5,000 crew members of the USS Abraham Lincoln and two associated ships will come ashore in Laem Chabang.
One of the stranger side effects of modern image culture is that we're starting to doubt the extraordinary. When we see an incredible landscape, a stunning face, or a photo of an animal doing something unlikely, our first thought isn't just how remarkable it is, but whether it's even real. More often than not, we're asking: Is this AI? There's a little sadness in this shift.
A common dilemma in the arts is realising that an admired artist was, by many standards, a terrible person. This isn’t unusual; it’s often a harsh reality: they may have abused power, exploited others, or been violent, manipulative, cruel, predatory, or indifferent to harm.
One of the most common reactions to contemporary art is also the one people are least willing to admit publicly: confusion. Perhaps outrage, maybe revelation, but the shy uncertainty about what exactly they are looking at, and, admittingly, the fear that they are somehow failing the experience by not immediately understanding, is slowly taking over.
