American Politics, British Diplomacy and Buddha’s Intelligent Inquiry

 Posted on February 8, 2012

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American Politics, British Diplomacy and Buddha’s Intelligent Inquiry

Kalama Sutta
Posted on February 8, 2012

American Politics, British Diplomacy and Buddha’s Intelligent Inquiry

Kalama Sutta
 

If I have not read Kalama Sutta by the age of 16 years, I  may have, to begin with, would have been caught up and swallowed by the Rationalist (almost nonfunctional today in this irrational country called Ceylon) coverts.

There are 13 qualifications, one has to apply if one is an open inquirer.
So read Kalama Sutta before reading this.

I ended up as an independent thinker, never believing anything what the white man said.
We were under 500 years of foreign invader influence, it is probably inbuilt in my system not to believe them and probably many Ceylonese of today have lost that inbuilt defensive quality we had, especially the politicians and political stooges who become prisoners of conscience.

I can dispense with British easily.
In about 6 months in Britain, I realized that, what they say is not what they mean.
That included medical men, too.
This is the ground zero level where most of us end up in Britain.
In the diplomatic level they deliberately lie in a professional manner and unlike the ordinary British who survive on a meager salary, they are paid very well to lie for the country. How better or brazenly one can lie while blazing a blue-collar suit and tie is the standard of British Diplomacy.

They do not mean what they say.

Only people who can beat them in this game are Americans.

Compare the relationship President Bush to PM Blair as an academic exercise.

I have had limited association with the Americans (IMMI in Digana) and it took many years of rational and independent analysis, only after leaving them though, to get the correct  assessment and true picture of what they really meant.

See how Obama came into power with full-scale liberal views and ended up as a stubborn personality and not listening to people power but continuing with what Bush did. Of course, better than what Bush would have figured it out.

He pretended to the whole world that he was different. Unlike British there are some genuine and stupid Americans, too.

Otherwise they would not have elected him in the first place. If they elect him for the second time my above analysis is patently confirmed without any doubt or contention.
Polls as at present prove that I am right at this point of time. Unlike British they pay well for the services. I do not know how one is paid under President Obama.

I am not interested in who should become the next American President, let the stupid and brilliant Americans decide it.

But they are well advised by me to read the Kalama Sutta before voting next time round.
Coming back to America and American politics, they are not a benevolent society. Obama pretended to be benevolent to the masses but he is truly benevolent  to the rich. Chrysler bail out is one object lesson.
They have the capitalist mentality at all levels and success depends on how much one is prepared to get returns for the initial investment.
Good examples are Microsoft and Speculators.
Now that Microsoft is having a nose dive, Apple is trying to get into that niche.
I-pads and educational material that they are planning to copyright are preparing to swallow the stupid Americans in one go.

What hey propagate as the universal truth is a myth by all standards.

More educated one is and more one spends on education, more productive when one is employed. It is a myth.

But no education standards were necessary to get the bail outs. The standard was how bad an American fails in his or her business. 
What ever the voters may say they always win. However, rest of the Americans have to foot the bill. 

In this context, Amazon did an amazing and wonderful thing by introducing Kindle Fire (selling below cost price) and creating http://www.createspace.com, in the big business world of publications. The hold that the publishers have on writers is negated by author publication which I entered willimgly.

They are all out to kill this experiment.

Amazon is a successful business empire.
There is nothing wrong with it.
But at least in education Amazon’s vision is somewhat benevolent.
American politics who ever who becomes the next president, I hope will not kill this endeavour in its early stages.
I hope I have not jumped the gun.
Time will tell what I say now will be right or wrong.
It is tilted towards ipad and Big Apple and not towards Amazon’s effort.
If Apple wins it is a disaster for the entire world of education.