A Video Insight into the Monstrous Depths of Corruption in Asia

[Poet]

As a European living in Thailand, I spend a lot of time thinking about how much potential is squandered by the ubiquitous corruption in Asian cultures. Many Westerners make the mistake of thinking it is something that can be addressed directly by "crack-downs" on bent officials, that you can remove a layer of grime and undercover a modern society, but the roots of this problem run so much deeper that I have serious doubts about whether it can ever be overcome.

Readers of this forum will be well-aware that the self-replicating life-blood of twisted societal structures - such as abusive policing, permanent wars, parasitic politicians, ignorant populaces - is child abuse, in its many forms ranging from early exposure to aggression to years of educational incarceration. When we intellectualize this fact, however, it is all too easy to lose touch with the visceral reality of this situation for hundreds of millions of children.

Today, a highly disturbing video is blowing up on Thai social media. It shows a father "educating" his four-year-old son. It was secretly filmed using a smartphone by the man's wife, the child's mother, herself the victim of years of violence, because she could think of no other way to save him - towards the end, we hear her desperately pleading "Stop, you'll kill him".

Her release of the video onto Facebook quite probably saved the child's life and the widespread attention meant that he was not able to simply pay the normal bribe of a few dollars that usually resolves such matters, the police had to actually arrest him. Tragically, however, the seeds of damage have almost certainly now been passed along to his son.

As a reminder of the sheer brutality which parents are capable of inflicting upon their own children, and of the importance of fighting this evil, I would like to share the video here. This is a link to YouTube. Please be aware that this is extremely upsetting, think about whether you really need this reminder, but for me it was an important insight into a primal instinct that flows beneath life here, resulting in an apathetic acceptance of corruption in daily life, the eradication of intellectual curiosity in children and the resigned acceptance of shoddy standards in everything.

https://youtu.be/UmpWWEcO7HU
 

[hannahbanana]

I didn't watch the video because I think it would be too upsetting for me right now, but I just want to say how much I hate the use of phrases such as "educating" when you're abusing, or things like "trust me, this hurts me more than it hurts you." As a complete avoidance of the truth of what you're doing. Not to mention a blatant defense mechanism, which will probably plant itself into the child's mind...seriously, just call it for what it is. So much frustration!

[Alan C.]

YT removed the video.

 

That was horrific, and the look of terror on the child's face when his dad was strangling him was quite unsettling. That man deserves to have his ass beat.

 

Thank goodness that electronics are becoming more prolific so that these types of incidents can be exposed.