The scandalous episodes of pedophiliac
sex abuse in high society Britain and the allegations of HR violations against a
few in Sri Lankan high society today, have both lead to insinuations of
collective guilt of nations.
In reality the guilty are an exclusive
small group of privileged people in both instances, but the respective
countries have been branded with this guilt especially amongst those who look
in from outside both those shores.
I am sure that those who live within the
shores know better, but it is hard to be able to present a clear picture of the
guilty because the guilty themselves go to extremes to blame it on society as a
whole, and not on the fallibility of the perpetrators of the crimes. In both instances,
the guilty disown their guilt.
The link is to a journalistic masterpiece
by Simon Jenkins of the Guardian, I wish we had similar perceptive opinion
writers in Sri Lanka! It explains further what I am trying to say, as it wraps
the allegations in knots to protect the guilty, who I believe are people in a
position of power and influence able to do so, and therefore the nation is
tainted by this scandal which will take many decades to erase from people’s
collective consciences.
In a similar vein Sri Lankans will have
to live with this allegation of racism for decades, when only a few in a moment
of triumphalism and omnipotence made decisions that continue to haunt us today,
and have subjected, more like tortured our society to extricate themselves from
their guilt.
This behavior on two different topics
show the extent of domination of our lives by a few who attempt to hide behind
this collective guilt, to appear clean. As Simon Jenkins said, we just need to
name and shame the guilty, and at a stroke we will be free of the shackles of imprisonment
that continue to destroy our sense of peace and prosperity.
It is time to round up the dogs and show
them who is the master! We the people must exercise our rights over those who
have fooled us with games and duplicitous behavior for so long, leading us down
the garden path. We must just cage them.
1 comment:
An extremely perceptive observation of the mind games of people in power over those they rule.
It will take a future generation to really understand what happened here in SL, when history is written.
Too bad the level of decipher-ability of Sri Lankans in 2014 is zero.
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