In search of a new 'magic eye'

Published: 28 Feb 2013 at 09.54
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"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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jimbly
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Discussion 57 : 04 Mar 2013 at 03.0457
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Democracy doesn't unite; it divides. The trick is to get enough votes from"us" to defeat "them". The USA is a prime, but not the only, example of this. Nothing the Democrats suggest is right to the Republicans and visa versa. The primary weapon in garnering votes in the "democratic" world, is fear. all the havering about leadership looks wonderful on paper but has nothing much to do with practical politics.
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Discussion 56 : 04 Mar 2013 at 00.3556
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Khun spiceman #36, Switzerland has 7 members in the Swiss Federal Council. One of them is elected to be president for one year and as such just has some more official duties but not more power.
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Discussion 55 : 03 Mar 2013 at 13.1155
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Spiceman. Thanks for the history lesson but I wasn't referring to the USA as a 'Democratic Republic'. More N. Korea and that ilk.
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Discussion 54 : 03 Mar 2013 at 11.5954
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Khun Mutley #52, it is not a "Democratic Republic," but rather a "Constitutional Representative Republic." You might see that there is not a word "Democratic" anywhere in there. Here is a moment in history behind the founding of the US, upon walking out from the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787, a women asked Benjamin Franklin "What have you given us, Dr. Franklin?" "A Republic," he replied, "If you can keep it." Anyway, the next President of the US might be another African American named Dr. Benjamin Carson, who is neither a Democrat nor a Republican. If there is ever a man who can save this Republic, it might be him!
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Discussion 53 : 03 Mar 2013 at 11.4653
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In certain US states, Kansas for one, schools are given a stretch of road to keep clean which instills in the children some civic pride. Wouldn't work here of course since all the kids would be run over on day one. Shame but true.
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Discussion 52 : 03 Mar 2013 at 11.3252
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Democracy. Government by the people for the people. Well, that's what it's supposed to be. Doesn't work does it. As for counties which begin with the words 'Democratic Republic of'. One immediately knows it isn't. Cynical? You bet. Feel sorry for the USA these days spiceman. All those 'wetbacks' will ensure they never get another republican president.
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Discussion 51 : 03 Mar 2013 at 04.4651
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Felixqui #47, on paper you can fantasize a theory to be anything you want but in reality it is entirely a different story because of human hearts, you know, selfish, greedy, and wicked beyond measure. The American Founding Fathers did their best to keep those evil human tendencies in check, in favor of individual liberty, freedom, and responsibility, when they created the US Constitution more than 230 some years ago, which they called it the Great American Experiment. If they wanted Democracy, why didn't they just adopt an already existing system of Parliamentary Democracy but deciding to create a brand new system of "Divided Govt" instead?
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Discussion 50 : 03 Mar 2013 at 02.4050
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Democracy doesn't work. Socrates touted the benevolent dictator and was forced to kill himself. I tend to agree. South Korea is the perfect example.
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Discussion 49 : 03 Mar 2013 at 02.3649
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It takes a village to make a place liveable. The "elite" of Thailand get away with murder, literally, while the middle-class preppies march around eating on foot and discarding their waste in whatever way that suits them.

I see so much trash, everyday on my walk to and from work, that I wonder were it all comes from. I see so many people eating food on foot. A disgusting sight to me, I don't know about you.

It is unfortunate, but I really feel that Thailand is very base.
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Discussion 48 : 03 Mar 2013 at 02.3048
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Yes, there is a lot of trash everywhere I look. A little village pride would go a long way toward cleaning the place up, but all I see is people eating their food while walking and tossing all their waste. In a nutshell, Thailand is really not a very civilzed place.

If you don't like what I've written, go out and pick up some trash and prove me wrong.
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