The ' Flat or Round' Amorphism

What is the shape of the world? 

The old believes about the 'flat' world had been recapped with the new innovative explanation by the scientific progression especially for the technology on travelling and exploring the world. The concept of round or spherical Earth emerged confronting with the old concept of traditional believes especially for the Thai society during the early nineteen century. King Mongkut (or Rama IV) spent his life to establish new ways of reliable knowledge on the geography and astronomy including the prediction of astrology. He wanted to set up the pattern of education in order to induce more accuracy and correction mostly on the tangible thoughtful process rather than the old fable. One of his dominant attempt as the big experiment in this region is the 1868 Wako observation in which the British and France also joined that chance. Along with later new curriculum  during 1890s offered the guideline of geography learning for the new Siamese generations, as from the Phumisat Sayam (Geography of Siam) of W.G. Johnson, or Van Dyke's Phumanithet. Anyhow, Thai society did not accept totally believes from Western dominance especially in the religious perspective, we tried to inspire the new Buddhist sect and find the own standpoint, even though the Traiphum cosmology would be dismissed later on. 

" The globe is so huge; the human is so small; yet curiosity extends beyond the globe." 

After we discovered that the World is round, like an orange shape, it comes up with the new focusing on boundary line and demarcation in which many mathematical approaches or geometry was used obviously in order to encoded the space and symbolize the world with many colors or materials. The new map also sprang up simultaneously with the new narration of the world in more scientific preventing the unreal imagination or fantastic world predominated by the sacred approach and religious aspect rather than empirical methods. "Boundary Lines" are becoming the one important element of map making or cartography. The spherical world is describing with many non-living materials. The living organisms especially human beings are defined and classified by the location or space where they lived. Prathet or a nation is also interpreted in this new narration of modern geography arising with this new geographical conception of the Earth.This line slightly and gradually increased own significance as the measurement of state legitimacy and jurisdiction over citizen. The sense of national patriot or collective sensation have emerged within that area or patria(home-village) in Iberian word. According to Benedict Anderson's Long-Distance Nationality described many interesting points about ideas of the nationality. One of the important ideas is from Lord Acton quoted that;

"Nationality arose from exile"

The exile would make people more adhere in nationalistic or collective emotions with their land of origin that nourishing them. However, this idea had been challenged by the late capitalist period with more progressive technologies and transportation including the far reached communication. The nationality can diversified by passport or citizen card, but we cannot exhibited the internal explanation inside people's mind. The nationality is not accumulated only the encoded space, it can happen in overseas or other regions, Moreover, it doesn't only originated by insiders but the outsiders with the 'externally oriented' practices or perceptions will explain the nationality of such state in the eyesight of other states as well. Such as in the Olympic Games and World Cup tournament in which the sense of nation-statehood is very strong and having more psychological solidarity. When we talked about the internal integration leading to the national identity is better to look thoroughly on which kind of factors fostering the promulgation of nationality. One of dominant factors is through the institution of nation like school which educated the same pattern of education to the students, in this case slightly similar to the King Rama IV and Rama V of Siam that tried to develop the educational based system to stem the ways of people living or thought. The Israeli- Palestinian conflict can be seen as the one controversial chaos from the deep rooted believed via education and introduction by next-to-next generations. From the documentary file of Avi Mograbi, 'Avenge But One of My Two Eyes', can reflect many real-time situations about long chronic controversies among two ethnic groups. In the Jewish mighty tale, Samson has seen as the great hero who can kill many thousands of Philistines (or Palestinian in nowadays) in which this mythology encouraged people in many generations to brave against the old enemy. And the "Line" also has tightly entrenched; the aggressive perspective is still existing out there. The demarcation, not even physically on geographical area by fences or barriers, but the psychological dissatisfaction tended towards more drastically divided of the 'We-feeling' versus 'Them-feeling'. Even though, the late capitalism or post-colonial era has affected many transformation of human societies until nowadays but the flows of commodity or well technological staffs are lessening in many parts of the world especially in developing countries that always dominated by the superior one. Or the 'Third World' that tried to form the Nonaligned Movement or third bloc with homogenizing narratives of resistance to domination by the core countries in the world capitalist system. The superior try to suppress the inferior one, as the territory and the line is getting blurred due to the one invention of mass media which the news, telephone, and social networks can enable many attentions from civil society or people on the Earth to see. Many scenes will more expose and the 'external' outsiders will play their roles increasingly expanding their curiosity over that covered scene; more try to hide it, more appeal other attentions. Especially in the era of globalization and information flows very fast and vastly.

   "People's identities as citizens of a nation are multiply refracted by their inventive appropriation of goods, images, and ideas distributed by multinational corporations."