Pink Man performance by Sompong Thawee

Q: What did they die for?
A: So we can go shopping.

How shocking when, last year, more than a million voters elected Samak Sundaravej their new governor of Bangkok. I was flabbergasted. Was not this the same Samak who back in October 1976 went on radio to urge that brute force be used against pro-democracy protesters, in the events that culminated in the most horrifying massacre in Bangkok history?

I asked myself: Has everyone forgotten? Does 'October 6' mean nothing to us now? Do we even care? Have we learned nothing from history? Because of this, I don't think it would be too much for me to hold that 'Pink Man' stands for present day Thailand. While out shopping, the man in the obscene pink satin suit with a matching obscene pink shopping cart
- a soulless man without a conscience to trouble him - amuses himself by joining the ogling crowd in news photographs of unimaginable cruelty from the May Massacre and events of 14 and 6 October. My, he's really getting his rocks off. How he enjoys himself.