{"id":68058,"date":"2017-07-21T11:40:59","date_gmt":"2017-07-21T18:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=68058"},"modified":"2017-07-21T11:40:59","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T18:40:59","slug":"our-society-has-become-uncivilised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/07\/21\/our-society-has-become-uncivilised\/","title":{"rendered":"OUR SOCIETY HAS BECOME UNCIVILISED ??"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

That day I was being driven in my car on the back seat trying to do some work using my laptop and noted that a road in Colombo 15 from Tholatanga getting congested due to a trench being dug by a contractor ( by the way it is going on for months and no sign of completion ).A thee wheeler driver did a sudden U turn just before the blocked road and almost hit my car .He started abusing by driver in filth demanding that car should move to the left \u00a0where there was drain .I opened the back window and told \u00a0him that he should not have done the gangerous \u00a0U turn .He looked at me and started firing same filthy words telling me to F \u2013offf !<\/p>\n

Another incident where I had to call Governor Northern Province to get his opinion about some transport vessels being built and the council was only asking the Japanese own Dockyard to build it .I wanted to talk to the Governor and inform that other local companies should also be given a chance to tender,He was so rude ,did not even want to listen start firing questions like What do you want ? in a very aggressive manner\u00a0 and cut off<\/p>\n

I stopped my car near a mango seller and asked him the prices . I knew that price quoted are \u00a0exorbitant ( may be due to the fact that I came by car ) ,When I confronted him about overpriced fruit he fired at me and said \u00a0 mahattayo ,onaa\u00a0 natinam yanna !\u201d<\/p>\n

( sir if you do want it just bugger off <\/p>\n

Well . another incident near Galle face .I was crossing the yellow line ( now \u00a0it has become white)\u00a0 meant for pedestrians\u00a0 and I also noted that \u00a0pedestrians were crossing from other side of the road .A ( immaculately dressed and wearing sunglasse) policeman was standing in the middle of the crossing and permitted all the people to cross to both directions .I private bus coming fast ( he could see from far that pedestrians are crossing and the police was standing in the middle) and yet did not stop .I braved myself ( with no fear of reprisals) asked the cop why did not you stop the bus? His rude answer was so what ?\u201d I just walked away .<\/p>\n

In another event a frequent beggar with no hands ( looks like he lost them when he was making hand bombs ) was pestering money from me and I refused ,He hit the car door with his stump of the \u00a0hand and uttered filth and left .<\/p>\n

I wrote about a Banglaseshi Monk who\u00a0 taked \u00a0about how uncivilised our society has become and yet our people go to temple and recite chanting with Metta .Karuna .Upeksha .We are becoming a nation of animals and Darwin,s theory may be working backwards ?<\/p>\n

Mahnayake theros trying to run the country ?<\/p>\n

They should jointly get the country back to Dharmasoka times ?<\/p>\n

Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr Sarath Obeysekera That day I was being driven in my car on the back seat trying to do some work using my laptop and noted that a road in Colombo 15 from Tholatanga getting congested due to a trench being dug by a contractor ( by the way it is going on for months […]<\/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-68058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68058","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=68058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}