<p>In a televised address on 17 June 2017, General Prayut Chan-o-cha released ‘50 <a href="https://prachatai.com/english/node/7215">thoughts</a>’. The junta leader took great pains to emphasize that the ‘thoughts’ were not questions, and made it clear, in fact, that he does not necessarily want answers — he apparently simply wants the people to hear and to approve the junta’s principles and logic.</p>