"Getting used to the dark," what the "sharp month" series makes to think before Election Day.

Last Sunday, I opened Monomax, looking for a series that didn't think much of it before I found "Sharp Month," a political Y-series that runs at the end of 2025.

At first, the series attracted me strangely, because it wasn't often that we saw the Y series take the characters into the middle of a political field full of invisible power, benefits, and bargaining.

The more I looked at it, the more interesting it was not the attack, not the campaign, not the political game on the news page, but the gradual opening up that the people we call "good people" are actually more complex creatures than we like to believe.

We live in a society that has long been passionate about good people - political, entertainment, corporate, or even everyday - when problems arise, we often start with questions about who is good and who is bad, as if we could separate these two things, everything would be fixed.

But real life is never that simple.

In "sharp months," no one is clean, and no one is blackened. Ideological people have fears. Hard-looking people have weaknesses. People who talk about the public still have people who love and want to protect, just like real life, that every human has his own reasons, even sometimes that reason leads to decisions that others disagree with.

While watching, I liked a sentence about "being in the dark for so long that my eyes adapt and start to see in the middle before getting used to it."

At first I thought it was a political sentence, but at the end, I thought it was more a sentence about people.

Over the years, we have also been used to some dark things. We are used to choosing people from image, judging politicians from words, leaving all hope to one person and being disappointed before we start looking for a new replacement.

This cycle happens over and over again.

Surprisingly, every time an election approaches, we often ask "which candidate is a good person" rather than "which one of our chosen people is wrong?"

We want to know if he speaks well, but we rarely ask if he is transparent. We want to know if he has vision, but we rarely ask if he can admit mistakes. Even we want to know if he is reliable, but we rarely ask how much opportunity he gives the public to investigate.

And when society was talking about re-electing the governor of Bangkok, I felt that these questions were more important than trying to figure out who was the "best man."

Forgetting that by choosing the best person in our eyes, he is still human.

Humans with prejudices, personal preferences, close proximity have interests to decide, wrong days, and mistakes in power.

I didn't look at "The Month" and felt desperate for politics. On the contrary, I felt that this series was reminding us that politics should not be a matter of faith alone.

Democracy doesn't work because we get good people, but democracy only works if we don't let anyone hold power without being checked.

It should be time for political maturity to start by stopping asking who is a good person and asking if this person is ready to be examined, because the person we should be most careful about may not be the person we know is bad, but it may be the person we like so much that we don't want to question him at all.

And when that day comes, the most terrible darkness may not be the darkness of the powerful, but it is the darkness that occurs in the eyes of the people.

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