Beware Split Brain Politicians

Beware Split Brain Politicians

Medically split brain syndrome can be described as below;

Split-brain or callosal syndrome is a type of disconnection syndrome when the corpus callosum connecting the two hemispheres of the brain is severed to some degree.

After the right and left brain are separated, each hemisphere will have its own separate perception, concepts, and impulses to act.

But my description here is the split brain personalities.

They have lost the subtle associative power of the two hemispheres, not necessarily anatomically but at at a perceptual level.

I give a description of the Yorkshire Ripper (not a typical case).

He was a benevolent Church going guy with no external expression of abnormalities.

It took 25 or more (disappearances) young women including prostitutes to be slain for the police to corner him.

It was five pound bill that cornered him to the final victim, if my memory serves me correct.

But there are many more of these guy / girls in the short human history.

These people cannot meditate and balance their brain in daily activities.

They go into trance states spontaneously and discover pseudo illumination and revelations as their own discoveries and preach them as gospel truths, the most dangerous variety.

Then there are world leaders with iron fists with split brain syndrome.

Slavery for them is gift of the god.

Then there are political parties with similar tendency with no alternative views entertained.

Then there are racists and religious fanatics with 

split brain.

My current description is the TV/Media type who have discovered this is the best medium to propagate split brain syndrome politically and want to become the next president of Ceylon.

I won’t name them.

It is the voter who has to judge them and vote in or out.

They are very subtle and extremely religious on face level (Yorkshire Ripper Type) and we know very little of their inner composure.

They are puritan and very eloquent politically.

I am blessed, judging them in five to ten minutes of confrontation is chicken feed.

Few probing question from me would verify their veracity.

I wouldn’t have survived the medical sphere without that talent.

Unfortunately our media guys do not have that probing sense.

They subvert to the propaganda value and plant two diverse ideas as one.

Split brain fellows can do that and try to convince the audience.

Beware!

When they come to power they become tyrants in 100 days.

We are at Crossroads Politically and Beware of the Political Suckers

We are at Crossroads Politically and Beware of the Political Suckers

My comments (no requests) below are for valid for both Ceylonese abroad and those currently living in Ceylon.

I will keep totally silent once the election is declared and let the officials conduct it fairly and expecting the voters who were hoodwinked for over 70 years exercise their voting rights judiciously, without failing.

Majority of our voters are mature and I bow my head to them and the outcome.

Recent developments are dicey and I wish none of my friends contributes the hard earned money to the campaign in any way.

It has already started and you will be getting emails and requests direct and from third parties for contributions (from the crusaders and jokers).

Ignore them and not a penny of your money should be wasted.

Some of them having collected the money may not even contest or the particular party representing makes no breakdown of the incoming and outgoing expenses.

It never happened and will never happen (until a new constitution is formulated to mandate the requirement).

The current constitution has all the loopholes and fixing them are difficult.

We had a prolong campaign to formulate new proposals and the team that did a very good job handed over the draft proposals to the parliament and all the parties got together and shelved it, until now.

There is no trust on the current members of the parliament and the candidates who are coming forward, thick and thin.

There are lot of jokers presenting themselves and some are coming from abroad and there is not a single national figure to rescue and change the course.

All of them promised to change the constitution from 1990s and none accomplished it having come to power.

It will be the same again but this time with a difference.

The ground reality is none of them will get 50% of the vote for sure.

This is partly due to “The Third Force” which came into existence, still viable and building its momentum and it would decide the outcome.

It will be a rude shock to the system including J.V.P.

J.V.P is trying to buy into this Virtual Third Force (not tested in real life situation, yet) without party bondage and there is no guarantee.

There is a tendency for the jokers in the pack to address this force and make a name for themselves at its expense.

My wish was for this force (not affiliated to any party) to become 40% of the total vote, given the political time, then big enough to undermine the big parties. 

It is certainly touching 20% as at present and this percentage cannot be bargained by empty promises.

In this scenario marking the second choice on the ballot paper will become necessary and we do not have previous experience on that issue.

A novelty in practice.

I do not like a second choice and count and my gut feeling is more than 80% is not be willing to go for the second choice.

There is no compulsion to do it either legally.

That is the caveat here and we are left with about 20% of the vote floating and no political pundit will be able to bet on that lot.

That makes this election very interesting and will truly give a cross section of the political wisdom of our polity.

More choices and less concern of the final outcome.

I am sure JRJ never envisioned this and we need to teach him a lesson in his grave.

Average voter can then laugh freely at the wheeler dealer JRJ and his follower MR.

The numbers are in percentages one can derive the total vote by multiplying with the total valid votes casted.

Brain Myths, the Malady of the Democracy

Brain Myths, the Malady of the Democracy

There are a lot of myths spread by Psychologists.

This is an attempt to bring some sense and reality into day to day life.

I may dispute many a myths but my attempts are also not infallible in each and every situation one may encounter.

Making right or correct decision at a given moment is a knack which many of us lack.

If we delay acting on a given (it may be right or it may be wrong) problem even for a fraction of a second, the most destructive procrastination sets in.

Then any given solution is the base for next round of further procrastination.

But if we keep an open mind and believe in what we intend to do given a difficult problem or a preposition, the solving of the problem may come naturally, to anyone.

This is not easy though.

Lot of training actually hinder this ability.

That is what we call common sense.

Lot of experience also may be a hindrance.

Basically we have several approaches to a given problem.

Just think of a Game (Video game)

One’s approach may be (not comprehensive here)

1. Offensive

2. Defensive

3. Neutral

4. Random

5. Cool (not procrastination)

The best approach is the last which has all the above components assessed in a fraction of a second. 

Only a few has that cool talent.

They are ones who become successful.

The COOL people are actually very observant.

But many of us use the useless procrastination approach (usual approach of a politician).

What it does is to kill the attempt at solving a given problem from the very beginning.

Unfortunately many of us use this method since we do not believe that some problems can be addressed, if we care to divert from the common approach.

This is what Professor De Bono calls Lateral Thinking.

It is not vertical or analytical or direct thinking.

Side track a bit,

Focus on the problem,

Leave behind the past experiences for a moment,

Give attention

To the present moment of time

Then in a FLASH

A new found solution

Springs up.

Then if we have few others with equal interest and talent get involved in the same problem we get endless stream of solutions which we have never thought of because of the redundant past experience.

We call it brain storming and it really works.

If one does not use common sense what I say here is superfluous.

We use our past experience to solve a given problem.

Sometime past experience is useful.

Sometimes past experience is a hindrance.

Past experience is sometimes a hindrance to creative and pragmatic solutions.

Good example can be taken from politicians.

When somebody is opposition for a long period of time and then come to power, he / she makes many mistakes due to past misfortunes.

They have lost the ability for creative thinking.

Unfortunately this happens when one is power too, and they do not realize what a wonderful thing to be in opposition.

The people in the opposition see the problem realistically but they do not have the muscle to power the solution through.

It is the malady of the democracy.

Terminator

Terminator

It looks like we are looking for a Terminator to Terminate the aspirations of the silent intellectual majority who Turned Tables in 2015.

My interpretation is our politics is like Instant Cricket of I.P.L. 

We forget Brian Lara, Vivian Roberts and Andy Robert and replace them with mediocre cricket blasters.

That ruined West Indian cricket for good.

It is happening to English Cricket.

We forget Mandela and try to create tyranny.

Two steps forward and five steps backward is our way of politics.

We come from world cup empty handed.

Unfortunately we cannot isolate cricket from political ground realities.
When Buddhist monks tie Pirith Nula (auspicious white thread even on players of different faiths) before leaving the country and there is no Pirith Nula (we need yarns of them when the terminator come to business end for non believers), on return with empty hand.

I can remember the Pope secretly gave an order to Cardinals to adopt Eastern cultural ways in 1970-1980s (when the Vatican banker was having connection with mafia, his body was hanging under London, Blackfair Bridge- where Muslim radicals detonated a vehicle bomb and a Pope was poisoned) and they failed. 
(Including Muslim massacre in Ceylon).
I never wear a Pirith Nula now but dare not confront one who is wearing one.
 
Current cardinals taking political upstage would lead to similar episodes in this country.
 
Just think of our acts of Sirima to Premadasa (JRJ included)  to Chandrika to MR (army excesses beginning in the universities) in the past when we were considered a very peaceful nation in the East, by far.
I wind up with a real incident in the Bank, just a few days ago.
Only a few was in the bank with two queues.
I just joined in.
Guy came from behind and broke the queue and entered the counter.
This was something I wanted to happen.
I blasted the guy and the Bank staff (for allowing it to happen) in real style.
He was defending his stance and still vocal.
He was saying (probably meaning) he had shut his mouth, while still talking.
I told him shut your mouth fully and if the cameras were not there, he will get a (Rajapaksa Kane Para), thump in his ear.
This was all an act on my part (I dropped my Visa Card, in the process), I thought but my body was preparing instinctively for a physical confrontation.
The guy behind me, a wise guy, distracted my attention and pointed to the fallen Visa Card.
Then only, I realized my stance and decided to stop the aggravation, knowing very well we have only a few months to correct current abuses of power and the next stream of power abuses are on the ascend.

 
I have not lost my temper for three solid years which was not natural.

 
I must let the steam out before the nest change of government.
We thank our dog who left us two years ago.
We had no temper tantrums while he was alive.
He will intervene and stop the most aggressive guy or girl in the house with a growl.
Unbelievable as a dog he hated aggravation.
My advice is to rear a dog before the election is declared.
Best protection an average citizen will have.
Trust your dog and not your politician is the moto for next few months.
 
My current aggravators are the buzzing mosquitoes.
 
The real reason that there is no aggravation in my part is video cameras installed.
 
My relationship with video cameras is love (control my anger) and hate (violation of my privacy) relationship.
 
Human predicament is dichotomous.

Camera and no cameras.
 
Priests and atheists.

Rationalism, liberalism and Marxism are in global retreat:
 

Whither aggressive Buddhist politics?

by Kumar David (he is no more)

Two examples, nearer home in more ways than one from antiquity are the Maurya Emperor Asoka (reigned 232-274 BC) and the Empress Wu Zetian (reigned supreme 690-705 BC and consort 655-683) the only female Empress of China. 

Both reigns are renowned for material prosperity and peace most of the time. Ideological harmony in both was grounded in the spread and acceptance of Buddhism. I need to say no more about Asoka, but many readers may not be aware that Empress Wu, deemed a great ruler, bonded with her people by identifying with and supporting Buddhism which was then gaining ground. Her reign was the golden age of Buddhism in China before the elite fought back and restored the older hegemony.

The older narrative that the intellect had become accustomed to post-Enlightenment, reason, rationalism, liberalism, socialism and Marxism are in retreat in the face of this assault. Liberals, socialists and the secular-minded basked in the glory of reason, science and the pluralist state for a long time. 

Quite suddenly and within two decades it has inverted. Out of dark recesses of the human soul a new mass hysteria has erupted. For long it was thought that unreason had been banished. 

Not so, the battle has to be joined again if humanity is not to pass into another Dark Age.

Rationalism, liberalism and Marxism are in global retreat: Whither aggressive Buddhist politics?

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by Kumar David

Rationalism, liberalism and Marxism are in global retreat:

Whither aggressive Buddhist politics?

It’s a very strange decade, globally. All manner of religious extremism, racial and nationalist excesses, and political irrationalities have taken control of the human drama. First on the scene this Century was Islamist terrorism’s infamous 9/11 carnage. Then Al Qaeda festered into IS, Boko Haram and a host of avatars; demons of torture, beheading, abductions, enslavement of women, and intolerance on a scale not seen for centuries. Early 20th Century movements to cast off colonialism reached a highpoint in India in the 1940s and shifted gear to national-liberation and anti-imperialist struggles in the next 50 years. But by the turn of the Century conflict metastasized into ethnic, racial, tribal and religious civil wars, sometimes of unspeakable horror. More recently it was Alt-right obscenities such as Trump, right-extremism in France and Austria and proto-fascism in Hungary. A variant is Brexit madness in England dragging along a horrified Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Even lawful Hong Kong is afflicted by temporary insanity as anarchistic young people spearhead a drive to disrupt law and order and compel the Chinese central government to intervene militarily. They evoke the ‘madness-of-crowds’ syndrome that psychologists talk about.

The scene at home has followed suit. Subjugation and alienation of Upcountry Tamils after independence was followed by discriminatory treatment of Ceylon Tamils. The 1983 butchery ignited a civil-war and the birth of LTTE terrorism. The Sinhala State used terrorism earlier from before JR’s time and followed it up in the Mahinda-Gota chapter. The total defeat of the LTTE closed that saga. Thereafter Sinhala-Buddhist (SB) chauvinism took a different turn; Muslims were the new target and the offensive was spearheaded by sections of the Buddhist clergy. This is the point at which we have now arrived and prospects are disturbing partly because in the view of many and much to my chagrin, Gota is thought to be the front runner in the Dec-Jan presidential race.

Let me say a few words about the importance hegemonic ideologies or belief systems such as religions in stabilizing society. During, for example, the early-medieval period in Europe the bedrock material foundation of society was feudal-agrarian production and medieval social class stratification. Catholicism was the ideological construct that permeated men’s minds and stabilized this order. In the usual inversion of reality and imagination, folks thought God organized the universe and put bread on the table. In earlier times, say ancient Egypt, agriculture and the bounty of the Nile was the foundation, without which life would have been impossible but myths about godlike Pharaohs, the afterlife and a load of mumbo-jumbo in men’s minds did ensure order, stability and continuity of state and society.

Two examples, nearer home in more ways than one from antiquity are the Maurya Emperor Asoka (reigned 232-274 BC) and the Empress Wu Zetian (reigned supreme 690-705 BC and consort 655-683) the only female Empress of China. Both reigns are renowned for material prosperity and peace most of the time. Ideological harmony in both was grounded in the spread and acceptance of Buddhism. I need to say no more about Asoka, but many readers may not be aware that Empress Wu, deemed a great ruler, bonded with her people by identifying with and supporting Buddhism which was then gaining ground. Her reign was the golden age of Buddhism in China before the elite fought back and restored the older hegemony.

Sadly, now is not a prosperous or peaceful time in Lanka. The slice of the clergy that this essay reflects upon invokes no esteem. Though nominally Buddhists, name is all it has in common with Asoka and Wu Zetian.  Nevertheless, it is a reminder that in all societies ancient or modern, Pharaonic Egypt, Medieval Europe, Maurya India or Tsang Dynasty China, society is defined by both its stomach and its sometimes-dysfunctional brain. At times what’s good for the stomach and what goes on in the brain are at odds. To stop being infuriatingly roundabout for fear of offending the faithful, I will be forthright: Politically aggressive Buddhism is at this time a regressive and socially divisive force. A monk caged for contempt of court was pardoned by Sirisena, who thought the monk may be useful in advancing his political ambitions. A large convocation of monks in Kandy pressed for the formation of a "Sinhala Parliament"; it was not clear if the plan was to terminate the current one which they believe contains heretics, non-believers and filthy vermin of other races. And so on.

In a perversion of democracy such strategies are paying dividends. A monk fasted demanding the removal of a Muslim cabinet minister. Had he conked, Buddhist mobs would have massacred Muslims up and down the country. For fear of rabble rousers all Muslim ministers in government resigned. The country slid one more step towards a Sinhala-Buddhist state. Don’t get me wrong; I expect nothing different from these champions of aggressive race and faith; my issue is that neither President nor Prime Minister nor any political party called out and condemned aggressive political-Buddhism. No one will dare do it, not only for fear of a political backlash which is certain, but also for fear of physical harm. What I underline is this: Religious extremism has gone far and gained strength and it is the most powerful ideological narrative in Lanka today. This state of mind is what Antonio Gramsci well described as the ‘hegemonic ideology of society’. All societies have one or more hegemonic myths and bogus chronicles but when one becomes dominant, aggressive and its supremacy dare not be challenged, it becomes the starting point of neo-fascism.   

The older narrative that the intellect had become accustomed to post-Enlightenment, reason, rationalism, liberalism, socialism and Marxism are in retreat in the face of this assault. Liberals, socialists and the secular-minded basked in the glory of reason, science and the pluralist state for a long time. Quite suddenly and within two decades it has inverted. Out of dark recesses of the human soul a new mass hysteria has erupted. For long it was thought that unreason had been banished. Not so, the battle has to be joined again if humanity is not to pass into another Dark Age.

Old fashioned atheism and materialism said that religion and ideology (presumed irrational as opposed to theory, knowledge and science) were false and deceptive. They did not examine the deeper psychological and neurological well-springs of individuals and of social collectives. Voltaire acidly remarked that if God did not exist it would have been necessary to invent him. At one level it is true that ‘religion is the opium of masses’ and persuades men to acquiesce to oppression, exploitation and domination by the state. But it is also true that it can do so only because it stirs emotional wells and provides solace from fear of the unknown and the afterlife. To rephrase the class (opium) argument in conventional terms: A shared ideology or common faith bonds together a society and promotes cohesion. For example, shared veneration of the nation is only as old as capitalism; it was needed for unification of the market and to fuse schemes of modern production and circulation. Nationalism had healthy origins, but only post capitalism, the bourgeoisie’s spiritual supplement to material ordering. The ruling ideology of cohesion in the old world was different – kings, popes, gods (Indra, Ra, Odin in Norse mythology), high priests and castes.

But it is also true that globalization and the contradictions that modernism has laid bare, have perverted this nationalist project. If you had let the Sinhalese and the Tamils, or the blacks and the whites, inhabit different spaces with cross-boundary interaction for commerce alone, they may not have been at each other’s throats in the way that inhabiting a common space and nation state has done. But history has an arrow, you cannot wind time back. The plain truth is that the first two decades of the 21st Century ideology has brought out the worst, the most intolerant, extreme and violent in communities be it Trump’s racist Base, European Alt-Right movements, and in our neck of the woods, aggressive political Buddhism. 

We have to get accustomed to this new normal not in the sense of accepting it but recognizing it as a condition that must be confronted. We must realize that we need new and appropriate tools to fight this cancer. Two things come to mind; appropriate economic strategies to address the anxieties that are driving masses of young and even older people into the arms extremists and nationalist malcontents and secondly alliances and strategies to confront it. The first is not a subject that I can take up in the remaining portion of today’s column, but I need to say a few words about the latter. 

My subtitle lamented that liberals, rationalists and leftists were in retreat all over the world in the face of extremism, racism and intolerance. There you have it; this is the alliance has to be forged if the barbarians are to be turned back at the gate. Narrow partisan differences, adherence to this or that creed, social distinction and differences of colour and tongue cannot be allowed to stand in the way of a common alliance to restore civility and civilization. To neglect to enlist in one, or in several of these alliances as they gel for this purpose, is perilous. Agnes Heller’s remark in her outspoken hostility to hard-right elected "tyrant" Victor Oban: "The most potent poison is substantive nationalism. Whether Hungary will escape with sufficient sanity and clarity for a new start remains to be seen" is surely too pessimistic. Heller, a distinguished scholar, prominent philosopher and outspoken dissident passed away aged 90 on 19 July 2019.

Elephant Myths-Expanded How the Sri-Lankan Mafia Killed our Wild Elephants?

Elephant Myths-Expanded
 

How the Sri-Lankan Mafia Killed our Wild Elephants?

There is a hive of activity as regard to the elephant trade.

There was a mafia that operated with the connivance of the politicians.

There are thugs hiding behind saffron cloth that made the outer circle of this mafia.

My third book on elephants (elephant myths) was deferred with a valid reason.

I could not bear to reveal the 10 cruel ways of killing elephants since these methods once revealed would be used for further cruelty to even other animals.

Like aiding and abetting in criminal law not revealing the operational methods is also a crime.

Let me list them for investigation by proper officials of the present corrupt Department of Forestry.

1. When elephants venture into huts of Ganja growers (in the name of vegetable farming), they cut the tip of the elephant trunk with a Kattha or a sword.

That is the end of the majesty.

2. They cut 2 by 2 inches square hole in a pumpkin and introduce a poison inside and seal the hole with cut the piece. 
Within hours the poor elephant who partake the poison is dead.

3. They used what is called the 'Hakka Pattas', an incendiary device packed with explosives similar to the hand bomb.

4. Shooting or trap guns.

5. Use one and a half feet square wooden plank driven with 5 inch nails. 

Once a foot / feet stuck in it there is no way to rescue the giant.

6. 'Waga Lin' or the pits made to trap (8x10x8) the elephants. 

Once trapped, no escape and they die a slow death of starvation.

7. Wanton Poisoning the vegetation where the gentle giants feed.

8. Baby elephants when separated from mother die of starvation.

9. Infected 'Madhu' - trap wounds and sepsis.

10. Electric currents.

11. Use chillies and other petrochemicals to bring unpleasantness.

12. Fire traps.

The lost of their habitat and traps laid in their migration pathway with the help of the government officials is the biggest crime.

There was an organized crime syndicate and the connivance of the print media moguls (heading this crime syndicate) was evident.

That is why none of the elephants thieves who operate with impunity were not captured under Mahinda Chinthanaya.

They go scot free during the 100 day program.

Emancipation or Enlightenment or Purulent Dogma?

Emancipation or Enlightenment or Purulent Dogma?

This piece is the result of a good night sleep without mosquito menace and optimum blood sugar level (hypoglycemia) in between.

Adequately compensated with feel good factors (hormones) from chocolates made of only chocolate butter (free of milk and extra sugar).

No tea or coffee for almost 24 hours.

Warning here, nobody with diabetes or low thyroxine with high TSH levels should try any of the schemes mentioned.

No rice for eight years on the trot (except string hoppers and hoppers) was my single health discovery (worse grain on this planet).

No alcohol for little over one year.

I was a guinea pig on alcohol as a student experiment (talks eloquently after the correct amount and win billiards or snooker game by the smallest of a margin) and I did my own experiment on sleep deprivation.

Did not sleep for 48 hours to overcome a bet and slept three days afterward.

Worse experiment unlike the alcohol experiment.

I pity the astronauts in space.

Sleep deprivation is bad enough but overcoming one atmospheric pressure is a strain on every organ and the skeletal system.

Never think of becoming an astronaut for fun.

It is no fun at all, bordering one’s stupidity and pure subject of brain washing.

Regarding sleep, never drive on coffee after an overnight sleep deprivation.

Sure recipe for accidents.

If you are feeling sleepy, pull the car to a side and have a deserving snooze.

Alcohol affects your snooze and the need for it at the correct time.

One need 8 hours of sleep, in my case bit more than that, now.

Not necessarily in one go but ideally in two breaks.

The preamble has no relevance the what I am going to say.

I watched a few Youtube presentations (religion, rational thinking, science and cosmos) and come to few conclusions.

I admire a few (not many) but hate many who propagate illogical dogmas.

They use the Nazi Gobble method.

Repeat the same thing over and over again, thousand times with some variation.

Only a few of these predators focus on reasoning and logic.

Rest are all rigid dogmas, be that it may be, religion, agnosticism or communism or socialism or any political or social validity of those dogmas except perhaps moral validity (depending on the cultural set up).

This is why I say come out the dogmatism.

It leads to emancipation of some sort.

But there is a trap in it.

One tries to fill the void with one’s own dogma.

That is a dangerous expression of freedom to think and express (terrorism and anti-terrorism polarity) ones own innate desires.

The way to handle is to keep the void as it is.

This is what the meditation teachers teach you but very difficult to practise.

Emancipation and renunciation are OK for me but what about the enlightenment?

That is a dicey question.

Nobody knows anything about it.

Perhaps self hallucination (drugs and alcohol are known to get one there) and I do not want that ill defined entity entrapping my mind.

I stop at healthy emancipation.

Both Revelation and Enlightenment are two "High Five"biblical words without any meaning. 

There is nothing revealed that we already know.

There is nobody who is really enlightened to know the real human predicament with the existing tensions in the world.

Is it Donald Trump, Putin, Rusputin, Ayatulla or Kim Jon in  North Korea?

Perhaps I may go for “thinking to think freely” and “the beautiful mind (Somanassa state in Buddhist psychology)” of Professor De Bono strategy.

A closing remark on science.

We are one atmosphere, three dimensional thinkers in the material world of less than 5%.

The rest of the 95% or more is dark energy and dark matter we know nothing about except its accelerating expansion and we are heading for, in eons for nullity or void.

What we see in the sky is yesterday and never today due to speed of light's limitation.

Until we find a method faster than speed of light we will never see the event horizon, except dark bodies or dark matter.

What we have is "now, now” of the present limited to our sphere of activity.

So make best of what is now.

Elephant Myths

Elephant Myths

The Elephant Corridor in Sri-Lanka

It is a myth.
 
Yala, Wagamuwa, Wilpattu and Uda Walawe are not connected by a corridor for the elephants to move freely, since the rest of the land is densely populated and there is not even a hypothetical corridor.
My calculation is that not even one percent of the land is reserved for the elephants.
If I assume 10% (ten) of the land is allocated in a hypothetical space on this island  as a zoological garden and all the elephants are relocated inside it for the people to see them as exhibits, and only 0.1% of the total population come to the zoo, to see them on one go (again hypothetical) ,there will be one man or woman standing every 10 feet (3.3 meters) of the perimeter and no elephant can move out without touching a human being.
If we get 1% to visit the zoo, one can stand and won’t be able to stretch the hands without pushing and shoving.
  Elephant will have to trample 10 of them to get out of the perimeter and see the man’s world, which is fully developed.
  One may wonder, why I used 10% which is high land mass in commercial concepts. It is very simple. My estimate is that there should be 35% (it is less than 25% and we will be like Dubai in about 50 years of development from now-we might even have to import water then) of total land to be reserved for rain forest, if we are to maintain at least 10% of the perennial rivers.
  So if we roughly have 30% for the rain forest, elephants should take the major share of at least one third of it which will be 10%.
That is why I state that there is not even 1% of land left for our elephants.
  So the natural selection will let 500 elephants to survive in the this land and in that estimate it is really endangered species.
Stating that we have 5000 elephants in the forest is a mythical figure concocted by our Mega Media Men (M.M.M) to satisfy the politicians.  
I think each elephant is counted ten (10) times in making that mythical figure, sometimes by reputed NGO's.
Development of the man’s world is also a big myth in the same stretch of imagination, since only a very few with patronage will be able to enjoy it.

I have made the calculation confusing and difficult so that politicians won’t be able to understand my logic of it but the figures are below for one to work out.
Human Population density in Sril-Lanka averaged out but in reality it is much more than that because people congregate on socio-economic reasons.
The population density in Gamphaha is more than Decca and Calcatta.
 
Kandy has 10 times the population density of Gaza Strip.

Beauty is nobody talks about population control.
I have used the total population projected in another 10 to 50 years for my calculation since total square miles is roughly 25,000.
1000 in a square mile
400 in a Square Kilometer
400 x 2.4=1000

Reserve only 10% 2500 Sq Miles(6500 Sq. Meters)
0.1 of population 250,000
  Every 10 feet or 3.3 meters there is a man/woman standing.
Location   Indian Ocean     Coordinates   7°N 81°E
  Area       65,610 km2 (25,332 sq miles)
  Area rank     25th
  Coastline   1,340 km (833 miles)
  Highest elevation   2,524.13 m (8,281.27 ft)
  Highest point    Pidurutalagala
  Water bodies     870 km² of water =400 square miles (only about 1%)
( If Water body  is 1.5 % it equals to 1000 Km)
Population density   1000 sq miles
Population density  400 km
  Hypothetical Elephants   population is 1000 and it is exaggerated to 5000 by local media giants (Biggest lie in this country).
Reserve   2500 Sq miles 50x50=2500;10feet
Reserve   6500 Km 80x80 6400:  3.3 meters

The tooth, the whole tooth, nothing but the whole tooth, is the story behind the gold, the other elements in the amalgam

The tooth, the whole tooth, nothing but the whole tooth, is the story behind the gold, the other elements in the amalgam

What ever the Truth Commission says, rest assured the truth is a mystery and invention of mankind but nobody can hide behind a tooth.

It remains for ages revealing the telltale story of a the truth and the origin of mammals and mankind and their evolution.
It is so hard it is very difficult to burn or hide the truth it reveals.
What a bite it has in forensic medicine.
This is not about the evolution but something else.
This is about the amalgam and the dentist who uses the amalgam to add extra weight and worth to the this historical object.
It is the truth about the tooth and how to become rich in spite the decaying and age.
Can you ever become a friend of a dentist and get him to reveal the truth behind the amalgam?
Especially the that one crafted with gold (teeth).
I guess, you would not.
They will never reveal the truth about the amalgam they use but they will always reveal the truth about the tooth that it needs attention of some sort.
But I will reveal the truth about the amalgam if not the tooth since the the pathologists job is to get to the bottom of the tooth and truth.
I will tell you how many grams or gains of gold and how much of other metals in the amalgam.
But there is a problem with that approach.
One has to die and one has to collect the tooth at the time of postmortem and one cannot neither recover the gold nor the money nor the prestige lost during the procedure both in life and after death.
We chop everything to pieces and only very tiny pieces we can examine.
I can tell you how tiny was the element gold in comparison to the price you paid for the filling.
You may say why not do a X-ray and estimate the real value of gold but it cannot be done that way.
It will only show a a shadow of the metal implantation and it cannot tell what metal it is exactly.
The dentist will never tell you but he will give you the exact charge of the procedure and no money back guarantee or the gold cannot be exchanged at the bullion.
One cannot do that in any case after death and now it is a museum specimen of the pathologist to tell your telltale story of the tooth to others not yet done the honours for the pathologist to step in.
The tooth, the whole tooth, nothing but the whole tooth, is the story behind the gold, the other elements in the amalgam and the tooth and and nothing but truth.

If I am made a judge in an imaginary Court some of my Judgments may look like this.

Complainant

One who lost his gold crown on one of his teeth.

How did you lose your gold crown?

He smashed my face and I lost my gold tooth.

My Lord,

He took it.

Sir he is lying.
My Lord.

He swallowed his tooth and put the blame on me.

Is it a gold tooth.

Yes sir.

Can you prove it with your dentist.

Yes, My Lord.

Take him to protective custody and observe all his excreta and see where the gold tooth is and reports back to me soon.

Keep custody of all the productions intact.

Next hearing.

The case about the gold tooth Sir.

We did not find the gold tooth and we through the productions away.

They were smelly. I thought it might offend you in courts, Sir.

Did I ask you to bring the productions?
No Sir.

Did I ask you to throw the productions away?
No Sir.

Contempt of Court.

Take him to custody now.

Turning to the defense lawyer.

Are you happy with the policeman's report.
Yes Sir.
Are you pleading for lesser offense of theft?
Or are you defending grievous hurt?
Judging by his mood and tone, the lawyer pleaded for lesser offense.

Turning to the lawyer representing the complainant.

I want to see the dentist next time.

Next hearing
 

Dentist appearing in court in professional attire.

Are you the dentist who attended to case No-001?

Yes My Lord.

Is it a gold tooth?

No it is a gold Crown?

What you mean it is not the whole tooth?

No Sir, it is the top most part.

This man says he lost a gold tooth.

What you call the bottom part.

We call it the root Sir.

Have you ever made a gold tooth.

No Sir.

Why?

In cosmetic surgery people are only worried about the external appearance.

The root is hidden and we put a different amalgam there to save costs.

What is the cost of the gold?

After some pause he gives an estimate.

Now tell me your charges for this case.

He gives the charges for the case.

Gold costs less than your charges?

Sir, we charge for the cosmetics and not for the gold.

Isn't it a fabrication?

Dentist was lost for words.

Aren’t you ethically bound to tell the patient the procedure in simple terms.

You are warned this time.

Next time I will report the matter to the Medical Council.

Thank you for your time in courts.

Judgments were postponed for the next hearing.
The dentist was sweating by the time he left the courts.