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Evan Urquhart

I don't typically share stories in the New York Times, by I felt there was something remarkable about this profile of the wealthy in Myanmar - an observation and implied critique of the wealthy in a foreign place that stands in for unwritten close reads of our own ruling class.

This Country Is Ravaged by War, but Its Rich Feel ‘Positive Vibes Only’ (Gift Article)The lifestyles of the wealthy in Myanmar — nightclubs, caviar and trips abroad — have been largely untouched by years of deadly conflict.www.nytimes.com
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Wren Walker

this profile shot of Myanmar feels like a dark cloud drifting towards our own horizon...🫣 def worth the share, Evan.

Cassandra of Troy

Why we know who Dr. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin was.

Lisan al-Gabi 🏜️🪱

I hear what you’re saying, I think I was left mostly grumpy that the close reads of our own ruling class remain unwritten, or unpublished. There is, after all, only so much time you can spend looking for edification overseas before the country you’ve turned away from taps you on the shoulder.

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Evan Urquhart

Very much a glass half full/half empty thing. I would rather read this story set in Texas or DC, but the power dynamics that allow it to only be written about Myanmar gave it a subtext that deepened it, for me. Whether the authors intended that subtext or not I couldn't say.

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Lisan al-Gabi 🏜️🪱

Completely agree. It’s a fascinating piece, whose writing and editorial process seems to mirror the themes it’s attempting to tease out in Myanmar. Really interesting read.

If you know you know

What strikes me about this is the hangover of the colonial country club. These are its inheritors. Same vibes.

Evan Urquhart

Reading this story, I feel I know the people who surround the Trump regime better. People who party to avoid their guilt and complicity. People who will destroy the society around them and immerse themselves in drugs and pleasure seeking to forget.

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Evan Urquhart

The wealthy rapper with close ties to the regime describing his need to travel with bodyguards by saying, "From the outside, people don’t realize that people like me are also oppressed." will stay with me.

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Aunt Aoife 🌸🏳️‍⚧️🦈

While visiting a friend in Thailand, I met a 17 year old refugee from Myanmar. She's working at an elephant sanctuary near Chiang Mai, gets two days off a month, and sends most of her income back to her family, parents, aunts and uncles, and 10 siblings, that are living in Myanmar jungles.

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Aunt Aoife 🌸🏳️‍⚧️🦈

She's also saving money for a passport so she can go to university outside Thailand. Getting a passport there is difficult for refugees, and requires money for bribes. Such a contrast from the "oppressed" people in the article.