{"id":44357,"date":"2015-05-31T20:56:05","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T02:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=44357"},"modified":"2015-05-31T08:36:12","modified_gmt":"2015-05-31T15:36:12","slug":"vices-of-open-economy-courtesy-unp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/05\/31\/vices-of-open-economy-courtesy-unp\/","title":{"rendered":"VICES OF OPEN ECONOMY COURTESY UNP"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Cecil Atukorale<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

Sri Lanka today is not the country that was known to the world, some 30 years ago. In the past this island was known to the world as the Land of Dhamma. But today with the open economy, things have turned topsy-turvy. Hardly, a day passes without something being said in our media about gruesome murder or rape.<\/p>\n

Today corruptions and vices of all sorts are endemic in the country much to the dismay of civic conscious decent citizens.<\/p>\n

Open Economy is not all about export, import & free trade: – neither about road development and building construction: for it has derived almost\u00a0 all its social objectives from\u00a0 Hugh Hefner\u2019s (http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hugh_Hefner<\/a>)PLAYBOY Philosophy : Competition , Consumerism , Drug trafficking , Sexism, Sex liberation and the likes of which are not visible to our open eye of flesh. We need an eye of wisdom to see things in its correct perspective. When this country got the open economy under the J.R.Jayawardena regime, we got the system in its entirety with all its inherent vices, which are not suited to a Buddhist country like Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n

Today the country is endemic in all sorts of vices: Casino, Porn films, rapes, gruesome Murder & Prostitution.<\/p>\n

Open Economy does not promote public morality: for it is committed to the needs of the rich that exploit the poor people. In open economy woman is deemed to be a super product for sale in the sex trade. Rich can survive well only if the poorer majority are made unintelligent fools. One needs knowledge in order to fight for ones rights and for the rights of others. Public ignorance of politics is a joy for them. This is indeed, one of Playboy\u2019s purposes. But its overall program is a tool fashioned to pervert society with its dirty animal philosophy to lead people away from values that can be only described as bestial to distract them from struggle and activity and turn them into near animals moved by two instincts : Hunger & sexual abuse.<\/p>\n

Under the guise of promoting tourism we have being promoting sexism and liquor. During the J.R Jayawardena regime the UNP government had taken steps to distort the content of school textbooks as well for some obscure reason.<\/p>\n

In 1986, at the annual literary festival held at Matara, J.R.Jayawardena himself raised the question as to whether literature would help anyone to make a decent fair living. He humiliated the value of Literature.<\/p>\n

During that period even the school Buddhist textbooks were distorted to suit the needs of the business class. Buddhist religion was equated with other religions. Accordingly we were told all religions were alike . This was the message the school text books conveyed to the learner.<\/p>\n

Thus, Eat, Drink & Make Merry became the guiding philosophy of the life of the younger generation.<\/p>\n

Now the present UNP leaders are shedding crocodile tears about the present messy state of the country\u2019s education and also they are lamenting about the current indiscipline prevailing in the society<\/p>\n

All this happened because we did not have educated learned elected representatives to launch a struggle against this disastrous economic development program of UNP government<\/p>\n

The lesson we have to learn from all that is to be very cautious when we cast our vote at future elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Cecil Atukorale Sri Lanka today is not the country that was known to the world, some 30 years ago. In the past this island was known to the world as the Land of Dhamma. But today with the open economy, things have turned topsy-turvy. Hardly, a day passes without something being said in our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}