kid in the picture
Thu, 16 Apr, 09
Happy new year! What would you tell the kid in this picture about what the future might hold for him.
I don’t want to make optimistic promises, prophecies of doom, or drone so called inspirational excrement. I certainly won’t make carefully phrased vagueness either. That’s the frightening thing I find about the future generations. Born to play the game of life with dice loaded against their favour. But perhaps that is the way it has always been.
What say you?
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I quote…
From http://www.lankadissent.com/
What you are leaving behind will not to be missed (but After reading The End’s comment), “What you see is not what you get”, Go get it!
The End: Thanks for the comment though it is not very clear as to what it means. Perhaps an explanation could be given?
From what little I could pick up, I can’t think of why any ruler would ever want to make “dissent” into a right.
I’m also not sure what is meant by “compassionate Sinhala Buddhist land” or its toleration of dissent. I certainly can’t accept that “Sinhala Buddhists” all share the opinion that is quoted. If that is true, then I’m the sole dissenter but I know I’m not.
Than again the more I read the comment the more confusing it get. Perhaps a clarification is in order.
Kalusudda:
not sure what you mean.
Gut wrenching picture, especially coupled with what you’ve written. There really IS nothing we can promise the next generation is there?
The point I was trying to make, is that while the masses (what I like to call the Sinhala Buddhist red necks) think that this is, in fact, the land of the Buddha, and therefore the land of the Buddhists, they blindly follow MR, and whatever wrongdoing he’s upto, are justified, or ignored.
themissingsandwich: Felt the image was gut wrenching when I took the picture. I don’t think you can realistically promise the next generation anything unless its something that you can do directly as an individual.
The End: Much more coherent when it you put it that way. I think you need to be a bit more specific in mixing the demographics of political views with broad religious and ethnic identities.
Your previous comment suggests that you are depicting ethnically Sinhalese Buddhists as an intolerant monolithic entity. Which reads like a racist rant (though I very much doubt that you are a racist by any means).
I’ve head similar tones/rants about “those dut-ty Tamils” being LTTE supporters. No ethnicity behaves in such a uniform way. By subscribing to such intolerance they can’t be Buddhists anyway. From a Buddhist perspective, the notion that someone who died 2500 can have any territorial/cultural domination claim over anything is meaningless. Then again, such notions are held by people tend chant Pali/ quote scriptures call themselves “Buddhists”.
All of which ads to make terms like “Sinhala Buddhists” and “Sinhala Buddhist red necks” into very loaded counterproductive shorthand.