THE POLITICAL ALERTNESS OF NEW GENERATION IN THAILAND

Abstract

The article about the political alertness of the new generation results from what the researcher wants to study documents in order to find the answer about the new generations’ interests in politics. If compared the past to the context of today internal society, the main structure that makes the new generations are more aware of politics results from the very fast information. This shows that the people within the country have the freedom to seek knowledge. This therefore makes the people become more citizenship and also makes the democracy in Thailand even stronger. But the culture of Thai society does not support Thailand democracy sufficiently because Thai society is too extremely attached to the tradition as well as the leading to the Siamese revolution called “early ripe, early rotten”. When compared to what happened in Thai society, these make Thai society cannot move on. Basically, Thailand have the former belief and Thai society highly contains the form of conservatism and nationalism. This causes the debate among many scholars about the contextual structure of Thailand in the past because the attainment of the democratic form of government with the King as Head of State and the repeated coups results in the vicious circle of politics in Thailand. However, there is good internet and technology nowadays which may not take the future of Thailand to the vicious circle anymore because Thai people increasingly have the political alertness due to the 13th coup led by General Prayut Chan-o-cha. Besides, the access to information has been leaped forwards differently from the past and the proletariat in Thailand can have technology to access the online information.