{"id":57380,"date":"2016-08-05T15:42:31","date_gmt":"2016-08-05T22:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=57380"},"modified":"2016-08-05T15:42:31","modified_gmt":"2016-08-05T22:42:31","slug":"just-an-injection-to-wake-up-the-sleeping-majority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/08\/05\/just-an-injection-to-wake-up-the-sleeping-majority\/","title":{"rendered":"Just an injection to wake up the sleeping majority"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sithum Rajakaruna<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

A devil dance for those who are proudly\u00a0wearing the colonoscopic cologne of colonialists.<\/p>\n

*Warning : highly hazardous to the whiskey soaked\u00a0heart of\u00a0kalu suddas*<\/p>\n

Its high\u00a0time to care about whats ours, before the rest of the world defecate\u00a0on us.<\/p>\n

And, No, I’m not going to discuss about the old\u00a0issue regarding the National anthem or deliberate depletion of the\u00a0strength of our national security.\u00a0Because I’ve expected the stench as soon as I heard the fart\u00a0on the 8th of January 2015.<\/p>\n

I’m not surprised at all, I’m surprised that you are.<\/p>\n

Is\u00a0patriotism the religion of the common retrograde?<\/p>\n

First lets take a step back.<\/p>\n

Ask yourself.,<\/p>\n

Would you allow someone to pop in your house out of nowhere and start dictating terms? Change your surname, force you to worship his god, and sleep with your wife?<\/p>\n

That\u2019s exactly what ‘they’\u00a0did. and its sad to learn that there are still some \u0db4\u0ddc\u0db1\u0dca\u0db1\u0dba\u0ddd \u2018s who don\u2019t see any fault in this.<\/p>\n

Actually In a perfect world, Patriotism is nothing but an illusion. Because we are all earthlings who share the same air, water & food.<\/p>\n

Besides-the most prominent characteristic of pop\u00a0patriotism- is that it had always seem to have been a Soul satisfying label for the spiritually feeble and morally empty folks, usually stereotyped as the red necks in the west or baiyyas in Sri lanka. These are individuals who are incapable of forming their own opinion, and thus, falling in line with rest of the sheep, continue to obey the shepherd with no idea of the real meaning or value\u00a0of patriotism or self-identity. For them, patriotism and politics provide great outlets to stand out by regurgitating what they’ve heard or read somewhere else.<\/p>\n

But, unfortunately, this is not a perfect world.<\/p>\n

And whatever said and done, we are, and we will forever be separated based on our evolving ideologies.<\/p>\n

Lets view patriotism in a different light, in the current context.<\/p>\n

Even though owning a gun can be viewed as being morally backward, If everyone was owning a gun, and the legal system had gone haywire (Like in the wild west, 19th century America) would you not consider purchasing a weapon? if not for your own good, but merely for the safety of your beloved ones? You’d have to be a coward and a fool not to. Because we have to realize that, once the pond get polluted so does the fish.<\/p>\n

Now the pond is really polluted friends. And Sri lankan tunas (\u0d9a\u0dd9\u0dbd\u0dc0\u0dbd\u0dca\u0dbd\u0dcf, \u0d9a\u0ddc\u0dc4\u0ddc\u0db8\u0da7\u0dad\u0dca \u0daf\u0dd0\u0db1\u0dca \u0dc3\u0dd1\u0dc4\u0dd9\u0db1 \u0daf\u0dd4\u0dbb\u0da7 \u0d9a\u0dd9\u0dbd\u0dc0\u0dd9\u0dbd\u0dcf \u0d89\u0dc0\u0dbb\u0dba\u0dd2 ) sadly, have a lot to lose compared to American sharks and British eels.<\/p>\n

Think about it, we are the only country, with a written record of history spanning for over 2,500 years. And also, we have to keep in mind that, if it weren’t for Sinhala-Buddhist kings, who built reservoirs (4th century before christ) when the English were sleeping in tree houses, defended this country from foreign forces with sincere sacrifices, we would’ve long lost our values so unique and so dear to us, the fundamental essence of who we are and the building blocks of our identity.<\/p>\n

So what? you may ask.<\/p>\n

The imperialists conquered us, because they ran out of spices to make the ginger bread man(True story), raped us for 130 years. Converted Innocent sinhala buddhists to white mans religion, providing them with incentives such as missionary school education, estates, acceptance to higher social circles etc. They destroyed our ancient temples and replaced them with churches. (not their fault, they were merely following the old testament , allow me to quote the holy bible- Exodus 34:13 ”…But rather, you are to tear down their altars and smash their sacred pillars and cut down their Asherim”)<\/p>\n

And still, we’ve managed to safeguard our identity. Because, our heroes of the yesteryears had pure patriotism, which was not a replacement for wisdom, virtues or personal integrity, but rather, a result of these positive qualities acting in harmony.Because, they, had a spine, a backbone, which flexed before none. Because, they were true sinhala buddhists, who showed their middle finger to colonialists and their holy book.<\/p>\n

All the other identities have homes, our poor Sinhala identity is like an orphan ignored by everyone.<\/p>\n

Right now, Its not about being patriotic or not, its about figuring out whether you are a vertebrate(\u0db4\u0dd8\u0dc2\u0dca\u0da8\u0dc0\u0d82\u0dc1\u0dd3 \u0dc3\u0dad\u0dca\u0dad\u0dca\u0dc0) or an invertebrate(\u0d85\u0db4\u0dd8\u0dc2\u0dca\u0da8\u0dc0\u0d82\u0dc1\u0dd3 \u0dc3\u0dad\u0dca\u0dad\u0dca\u0dc0)<\/p>\n

The rest of the world, are proud of their identity, they are willing to fight for it. Also They are even willing to die for it.<\/p>\n

And in a world where everybody \u00a0else is plotting to spread their empire, if \u00a0we cant at least have an ounce of pride in our identity, we will be slaves chained by the neck in ‘Western progressive thinking’ or a lost civilization of buddhists that used to exist in indonesia, malaysia, bangladesh, india , afghanistan, iraq, iran etc.<\/p>\n

Whats the number one priority of a Japanese man? Dignity<\/p>\n

Whats the number one priority of a Muslim national? Religion<\/p>\n

Whats the number one priority of a Modern day Sinhalaya?\u00a0 Money<\/p>\n

Wake up<\/p>\n

Ancient Sinhala Buddhist<\/p>\n

Sithum Rajakaruna<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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