Aung San Suu Kyi - Sunny Narang

29 March 2017 at 22:43 ·
(via Sunny Narang)

After one year in power, Aung San Suu Kyi has gone all but missing from the public ear. Her voice, long known for inspiring her people, is heard in only a handful of public appearances or daily private meetings with officials and foreign dignitaries, while there is nearly no interaction with the media.

When she does occasionally address a public audience, she repeats abstract concepts such as "national reconciliation," "rule of law" and "peace." But what is even more noticeable in her speeches is a commanding and pedagogical rhetorical style underpinned by a puritanical political ideology.

The latter shows a world view that values individual fulfillment of ta-wun (duties or responsibilities) rather than exercise of akwin-ahyeh (rights or entitlements).

But her view of what constitutes her personal responsibilities as national leader is no longer one of articulating an actionable plan for modernization, but rather one that she defined more than 25 years ago in her book, Freedom from Fear -- to spur a "revolution of the spirit." She increasingly sees her role as using her voice, formal positions and iconic status to achieve a transformative remolding to a moral-based national political economy, starting with each person's mindset.

She has been increasingly clear in recent speeches that she does not consider it proper for citizens to expect or ask the government for help in solving the personal, community or regional problems that dominated the 2015 election campaign. Instead, individuals should muster "courage" and "self-confidence" to take personal responsibility for their own and the nation's solutions.

She espouses a socially conservative ideology of radical self-sufficiency and laissez-faire relations between the state and society, although this only forms part of the complex psyche of an internationally recognized national leader who led a long-running opposition to repressive military rule.

2 Comments

Sunny Narang Actually no politician has the ability to be a statesman now.

They are all crappy marketing guys.

When actually the historical phase is to cool all down. Get some grace beauty spirit back.

We have over exposed over consumed over sexualised over politicised every thing.

The response is coming.