Apparently there are only three
countries that will have to face substantive resolutions in Geneva in March,
and all of them Sri Lanka, Myanmar and North Korea happen to be Buddhist
countries of one yana (vehicle) or the other. Of the three countries Myanmar
has been “disciplined” after continuous application of pressure including
economic sanctions and the country has agreed for a so called consensual
resolution. In the exercise of “disciplining” Myanmar the western Christian
countries had Aung San Suu Kyi as their agent, but in Sri Lanka and North Korea
they do not have such a leader who could effectively challenge the relevant
“regime” and the west has to depend on so called international pressure. As we
have said often what we experience today is a clash between the Judaic
Christian culture and the Islamic and Buddhist cultures. The Islamic culture is
more powerful as a military power and also as a political force and the Judaic
Christian cultural hegemony has concentrated on two Buddhist countries this
year.
It is very likely that in Sri Lanka the
west can depend on a more westernized elite group especially in education than
in North Korea, and that in the latter there is not so much of a discussion on the
impending resolution in the media. The Sri Lankan educated people are obsessed
with Geneva and most of them seem to believe that their future would be decided
in March in Geneva. It is unfortunate that free education in Sri Lanka has
produced a western educated group irrespective of the medium of instruction,
which depend on so called analysis of western intellectuals echoed by the local
pundits. If not for the so called uneducated people in the country, Sri Lanka
would have agreed to any suggestion by the Judaic Christian west without even
critically thinking of what is taking place.
This is one of the reasons why we have
to defeat the hegemony of the Judaic Christian Culture especially in the sphere
of knowledge. Edward Said in his Orientalism published in 1978 concentrated on
what is known as post colonialism by the western intellectuals, described how
an Eurocentric view of the Islamic world and the orient in general
misrepresented oriental culture. The Orient of the westerners was something
that the western intellectuals created and not the orient of the people living
in that part of the world. Said was a Professor in English at an American
university and he was accepted by the western intellectuals in general. Said
also described a relativity of knowledge, his emphasis being on how the west,
meaning of course the western intellectuals, saw the orient. It is nothing but
the Orient relative to the western intellectuals, and we could say that it was
the Orient created relative to the Judaic Christian culture based on the Greek
Judaic Christian (GJC) Chinthanaya.
Said was accepted by the western
intellectuals in general for the simple reason that in spite of his criticism
he was also a western intellectual. Said accepted the GJC Chinthanaya and also
the so called methodologies adopted in the western intellectual world, which
included the western scientific method and the Aristotelian logic. The term
post colonialism, a creation of the western intellectuals hide the fact that
western Judaic Christian colonialism has not ended. The present day western
intellectuals very often use the prefix post in describing phenomena, as for
example in the case of post colonialism
and post modernism, and by that usage one is assured that colonialism and
modernism and other such phenomena have ended though it is not the case.
Said described one form of relativism of
western knowledge, without challenging the basis of such knowledge. The
sociologists in the west have come out with theories on relativity of knowledge
without going into the foundations of western knowledge. It was a relativity of
“sociology” based on the GJC Chinthanaya and the western intellectuals had no
problem with the relativities of Said or others. Except in the case of
Feyerabend who challenged the so called scientific method in his book “Against
method”, and who was not recognized by the western intellectuals, the others including Kuhn who wrote “The
structure of scientific revolutions” were content with the methods in western
science. Kuhn was interested in describing how western science progressed
through so called revolutions and he only challenged Popper’s view of western
science where science advanced as a result of scientists attempting to falsify
the existing theories.
Even Feyerabend did not say that western
science is “pattapal boru” (blatant lies) and the moment one came out with the
view that western scientific theories and other abstract western knowledge are
mere stories (pattapal boru) concocted by western intellectuals relative to
Judaic Christian culture based on GJC Chinthanaya the whole hell broke lose. It
is interesting to note that the greatest opposition came from Sinhala nationalists
who defend western science without any understanding of western Physics that is
at the pinnacle of western knowledge. People who have read on Physics from
popular books but who have never studied that subject after the GCE (Advanced
Level) formally with the Mathematics involved, very often failing in the
subject at the examination, are the most ardent followers of western science. Incidentally
the most attentive of the “pattapal boru” kathava are the students of the
Faculty of Engineering at the University of Moratuwa who very often get very
good marks in Physics and Mathematics at the GCE (Advanced Level)
examination.
Now what is the relevance of all these
stories to Geneva? The Geneva circus is
managed by western intellectuals with the assistance of people such as Navi
Pillai who are very often educated people in the western tradition whatever
their nationality, ethnicity, religion may be.
To begin with, we are given the impression that Geneva is an
international forum. It may be the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC)
that meets in Geneva every March but the stage is managed by the western
countries that pretend to be the international. The west represents a bogus
international but the hegemony of the Judaic Christian culture is such that the
bogus international is projected as the international, of course, with the
assistance of the products of western education found in media, universities,
NGOs, parliament, judiciary, officialdom and other such places. The media
discusses Geneva and project it to be a life and death experience of the
ordinary people.
Even if the resolution against Sri Lanka
instigated by England and presented by USA is carried through what can the so
called international do? The UNHRC in
Geneva cannot impose economic sanctions but as we have been telling for more
than four years there can be economic sanctions imposed by individual countries
or group of countries on their own, to punish us for defeating the LTTE, the
agent of the west not only against Sinhala Buddhist culture but the Tamil Hindu
culture as well. The so called educated people are sacred at the outcome and
they think that would have to starve to death if “unofficial” economic
sanctions are imposed. The irony is that some of these educated people or at
least their parents were not opposed to eating “bajiri” during the so called
second world war (the computer insists that I begin these words with capital
letters) which was a war of the west and not a world war, in order to safeguard
and protect the interests of the English colonials. The elite schools were
shifted to places such as Bandarawela during this time forcing the offspring of
the privileged to stay away from home. The educated went through all these
difficulties to protect not the sovereignty of the nation but the interests of
the English colonials. For the educated, whether they were educated in English
or Sinhala (Educated Tamils are outside the equation as their problem is
formulated in a different way by the western intellectuals) safeguarding the
interests of the English colonials appear to be more important than protecting
the sovereignty of the nation, and they are prepared to sacrifice for the
former purpose and not for the latter. Such is the power of the western
education we receive at schools and universities. Let us feed the educated with
some “bajiri” if the need arises.
Nalin De Silva
19-02-2014
