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- 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 from 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 his 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 very 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

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.