Absolutely correct. If you cannot criticise your leaders, no matter how prestige they are, but can only offer praise then the society is fake with little honesty and integrity. People have to constatly lied and deluded themselves just to servive because daily life is full of duplicity.
Fully agreed with your comments. There were cases where local people were asked to preserve forest and somehow the forest was cut by "khon bor huk sard"