RE-ENTRY
Can’t seem to stay away. ‘The Kingdom of Wonder’, some call it ‘The Kingdom of Blunder’ is calling me.
They’ve had some big bumps in the road there In Cambodia, biggest of which were the national elections which, by unanimous consensus, were a Tin Pot charade of shadowy (or not-so-shadowy) pressure and threats, Fascist bombast and plain ol’ ballot stuffing. Grade School stuff, but, Voila! Hun Sen, his Imelda-esque wife and their bottomless pool of cronies, bootlickers and profiteers are in for another spell. I’ll leave it here, cuz I’m totally uninformed, but it’s very sad and the only uplifting part, for Cambodia’s future and Khmer people, is that it was close, there is a Huge amount of resistance, and something big and populist will undoubtedly rear up formidably soon. It’ll be ugly though.
There is also the auto-carnivory … the incredible facility with which the Kingdom seems able to devour itself: the land grabs, the resource rape, the Orphanage ‘Business’, the eternal obsequies to AID; the bottomless claque of little guys in sunglasses and big fancy trucks packing heat and alibis. I’m goin’ anyway and I will talk about allthat next post … meantime I need to book a ticket. Stay tuned.
