<p>I have a theory about Thai society.</p> <p>Don’t worry.&nbsp; This happens every 30 or 40 years or so and eventually I get over it.</p> <p>The last Georgian Thai Social Theory (c 1980) explained why Thais are described in the guide books as an extremely polite people and yet drive like homicidal maniacs, prefer push-and-shove scrums to orderly queuing, and politically vacillate between anarchy and autocracy.&nbsp;</p> <p>(The pushing and shoving has since begun to fade with the introduction of new technology, i.e. queue tickets and yellow arrows on mass transit floors.)</p>