bunpeiris Literature

March 30, 2008
The Literary Canon Vs Barbaric ignorance by bunpeiris
Written by B. UPUL N. PEIRIS, Sri Lanka

In the beginning there was the word: the word that spreads as bush fire on this bloody day is not confined to a little known island in the east, but all around the world. A minority community, which has been unjustly subjected to so called racial discrimination, at last, being at the receiving end of their great patience & humanity takes up arms against the regime of the majority, David against Goliath. There goes the reporter’s sensationalized interpretation, a far cry from the truth. Once again, the history, as the wise say repeats. Blood is spread & thunder is heard. Murder is everywhere & mayhem is the order of the day: paradise lost. Ah! There lands John Milton.

Ah! Milton goes to work. “How was that you gentleman in such haste managed to report the half a dozen of civilians killed in the crossfire between the defense forces & the terrorists while you failed to report the bloody massacre of half of that village, by the terrorists, just a couple of miles away?” Asks our military spokesman from our just landed Milton. “Oh! We ran out petrol & there was no way of reaching there.” Replies Milton getting into stock answer barrel. Stock answer shock the listner. “The function of a good news paper & therefore of a good journalist is to see life steady & see it whole” James Fallows, former Carter Aide & & an editor of the Atlantic Monthly & author of Breaking news, comments: “ Seeing life steady means keeping the days events in proportion. Seeing it whole means understanding the connections of varied happenings”. He finds most of the world media dramatically lacking when measured against this simple standard. Far from seeing life steady, the media unsettles the conduct of the nation’s affairs; far from seeing it whole, it fractures reality into inconsequential bit & pieces.

Close at the very heels of the journalists are the politicians for the simple reason for both parties are unable do without other. “What’s the matter sir, what’s in a parliamentary seat sir, to a wealthy man of your caliber? Even if you loss at the elections, you will still be enjoying your wealth, turning out designer furniture at your factory, having the services of your loyal followers, so what’s the point of sulking to this extent?” “ Why don’t you see point, stupid? This is not dissimilar to hooked on to Opium. Opium of power gained by way of politics is an addiction. How could I live without the power bestowed upon me by virtue, or rather by vice of being a parliamentary member, a minister & honor that court me day & night every nook & cranny?” “ Well, sir, there is a way out, one way of your party winning the election”. “I am listening”. ” Why don’t you play up to the minority?”

Just a couple of concessions here & there to the minority at the expense of the majority & your party will secure the whole damn minority votes, block & seats & before dawn your once again in power with a coalition. : “Will not my ancestors turn in their graves?” “They will, anyway sir, if you lose at the elections”. “How do I go about this?” “Oh! Just say of course minority is suffering; they have legitimate grievances alien to the majority: it was injustice to constitute language of 75% of the population of the Island as the working language of the state in spite of minority language being the working language of minority areas. We must redress the wounds”. “The truth is that politics, which should be most simply defined as the solving of societal problems, is often anything but that. Says Film Director John Malkovich. Could the terrorist ever dream of better bedfellows than politicians of the majority? On the day, the 72% of the majority of the population, a race which is already designated as endangered is given the Final Solution by the Asia’s second Pol Pot, in the tradition of Herr Hitler to the Jews, would there be at least a footnote in the annals of history recording the politicians of the majority race being the perpetuators of the sodomy of their own race? Time will tell, definitely.

And then follows no other community but the Useful Idiots: so called intellectuals, as Lenin himself was quick to recognize the invaluable use of those. Oh! Yes, it is truth, but nothing but absolute truth: the minority has been suffering for a long time, It is high noon the majority redress the grievances of the ethnic minority. The strong man with a dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge, quipped Lord Acton. Until the boy who yelled, “ The King is naked” emerge once again from the madness, wilderness, melee & chaos, there is no escape. Waiting for the boyot. In the year 1995, State Department awarded USD 500,00 contract to a Yale University genocide research, head by Ben Kiernan, a professor well known-even self confesses-as an early apologist for the Po Pot regime. An academic battle triggered when Harvard Research associate Stephen Morris attacked Kieran in he All Street Journal. Under the headline “ The wrong man to investigate Cambodia, Morris called his fellow Australian “radical activist-cum-academic known as one of the Khmer Rouge’s most ardent defenders during Pol Pot’s reign of terror….who spoke tirelessly against most refugee accounts & Western reporting.” Kiernren’s supported countered that Kiernen’s subsequent “mature” work far outweighed what one called “juvenilla” Kiernan then weighed in himself, explaining that in 19179 he had penned a “frank admission” that he had been “late” in assessing the Cambodian tragedy. He was late by 2 million lives of human beings. They were killed like flies. So much for the intellectuals & academics. What was the value of life of Kiernan to his parents? What is the value of his son’s life to Kiernan? What is the value of 2 millions human beings? The average man, the man in the street has miserably failed to make out the endless idiocy of the pundictocarcy: perceive how extreme is the mental imbecility of the so-called intellectuals & academics.

Professors such as Ben Kiernan are not a rare breed; they are all over the world all the time. Justin McCarthy, professor of history at the University of Louisville in Kentucky, says that he thinks events were not genocide because some Armenians survived. 1.5 million Armenians were killed by the Turks. Bernard Jouanneau, President Memoire 200, Paris in a response to an four page advertisment together with a propaganda DVD which was distributd to 500,000 subscribers in more than a dozen European countries, placed by Ankara Chamber of Commerce on 6th June 2005, asked “ Can you imagine the same words being said about the Jewish Holocaust? Would such a statement be acceptable to Time magazine? Time magazine apologized. Assailants, Attackers, Bombers, Captors, Commandos, Criminals, Extremists, Fighters, Group, Guerrillas, Gunmen, Hostage-takers, Insurgents, Kidnappers, Militants, Perpetrators, Radicals, Rebels, Separatists, Activists

Quote Tara Pepper
When Hitler became chancellor of Germany in 1933, an army of Brown shirts paraded through Berlin to thunderous cheers. In the first volume of a new trilogy on Nazi Germany, “the Coming of the Third Reich”(641 pages, Allen Lane) Richard J. Evans describes how a young boy, Hans-Joachim Heldenbrand, noticed that the same men kept appearing in front of him again & again. “There you see the con trick,” his father told him. “ They’re constantly marching around in a circle as though there were a hundred thousands of them.” Evans, a professor of modern history at Cambridge, has taken on the daunting task of looking beneath the trick of this charged period.

Postwar historians like A. J. P. Taylor placed the rise of Nazism in the context of the spread of totalitarian governments across Europe, arguing that the course of European history made it inevitable. Evans’s detailed, unflinching narrative, which covers the period up to the summer of 1933, argues that the conditions in each country that gave rise to such tyranny varied markedly- & that in Germany, at every key moment.

Evans doesn’t shirk from the uncomfortable conclusions his research yields. Watching the Nazis take over during the spring of 1933, lawyer Raimund Pretzel wondered why there were no protests from the 56 percent of the Germans who voted against them. “The simplest & -if you looked deeper, nearly always-the most basic reason was fear,” pretzel wrote. “ Join the thugs to avoid being beaten up.’ Though it’s been argued that political apathy brought Hitler to power, Evans suggests that electoral turnouts were good & that citizens were, in fact, highly aware. German history didn’t make Nazism inevitable. But Hitler’s policies did alleviate the humiliation caused by the Treaty of Versailles, which confiscated 13 percent of Germany’s land. The violence that erupted on the streets as parliamentary authority was destroyed- & the shouts of “ Death to the Jews!”- were largely ignored because many thought they would eventually be quelled. Evans notes that a bibliography of books on Nazism currently lists 37,000 works. But his thoughtful take clearly justifies one more.

Quote Micheal Shermer Enigma : The Faustain Bargain of David Irving 3rd May 2005, eSkeptic
After failing to complete his degrees, Irving moved to Germany and worked in a steel factory where he learned the German language and culture first hand. It was here that he first heard about the allied mass bombing of Dresden (from the German perspective, of course), which led to the publication of his first book The Destruction of Dresden, and his decision to become a writer. His empathy for the plight of the Germans during the war, and his sympathetic portrayal of the Nazi leaders, led him into what he calls “the Magic Circle”—the surviving former Hitler confidants. And it is here where he chose the path down which he has never diverted.
In sociology there is problem known as the “co-option” of scholars, particularly by cults and New Age religions, whereby a scholar, in entering a group and spending considerable time with them, publishes a paper or book that is not as objective as he or she perhaps believes. In fact, sociologists Stephen Kent and Theresa Krebs have identified numerous cases of “when scholars know sin” (an article in a 1998 issue of Skeptic magazine), where allegedly nonpartisan, unbiased scholars find themselves the unwitting tools of fringe groups striving for social acceptance and in need of the imprimatur of an academic. The problem is not merely one of exposure. Such groups need mainstream credibility that they can get from the academy. Academics need original research projects that they can get from studying fringe groups. The process involves a feedback loop between scholar and subject, where the more open and sympathetic the scholar appears, the more the subject opens up with honest portrayals of the group. But it is not enough for the scholar to fake a conciliatory attitude. Humans are good at detecting deception. The best way to beat a lie detector is to believe the lie yourself. That way your body will not betray you. (Evolutionary psychologists speculate that there was a deception/deception-detection arms race in human evolutionary history, where we became good at both lying and detecting lies.) Deception becomes self-deception.
In my opinion, Irving’s self-deception began when he entered the Magic Circle. “I carried out major interviews with all these people on tape. And what struck me very early on… is that you’re dealing with people who are educated people.” Hitler, he explained, “had attracted a garniture of high-level educated people around him. The secretaries were top-flight secretaries. The adjutants were people who had gone through university or through staff college and had risen through their own abilities to the upper levels of the military service.” These Hitler confidants were well-educated and they spoke highly of their Führer. Who was Irving to argue? “Coming as I did with an as-yet-unpainted canvas, this was really the seminal point, the seminal experience—to find twenty-five people of education, all of whom privately spoke well of him. Once they’d won your confidence and they knew that you weren’t going to go and report them to the state prosecutor, they trusted you. And they thought, well, now at last they were doing their chief a service.”
That was the shift from deception to self-deception, the co-option of David Irving by Hitler’s Magic Circle. Hitler’s war became Irving’s war. The Faustian bargain was made, and David Irving shall forever pay the price. Yet, with his background and temperament, it is a pact he could not help but form, and a cost he is only to willing to incur.
Unquote Micheal Shermer

“We made a mistake”, a Saudi official told me, writes Joe Klein in Time 7th March 2005. “We thought that when teachers cursed Christians & Jews, that it was just words & there would be no impact. It is said that communists take control of a country using trade unions & Arab nationalists take control through the military. Well, the Islamists take control through the schools. We gave them free rein starting in the 1960s. They have penetrated everywhere, & it is difficult to roll back.”

Says Film Director Jon Malkovich, of his film “the Dancer Upstairs”-a thriller that fictionalizes the hunt in Peru in the 1980s for Abimael Guzman, the enigmatic leader of the guerrilla organization Sendero organization Sendero Lumioso, or the Shinning Path- And in fact it was a macabre dark path, a bloody path, a terrorist path. “ There is a line in the script where Rejas & Yolanda, the dancer, go to a photo exhibition. Some of the people in the photos are murder victims. And one asks the other, “ Who is that?’ “ I think he’s judge.” And in fact he’s a murderer. The point is that we get half the people we meet wrong, & that’s what this film is all about”

We are wrong & they are right. We have been in human all these long years & it is only justifiable they rise to struggle. No, No, we do not justify bombings, but you must understand………….. there goes the argument. True, end doesn’t justify the means, but you must understand…. They had no option….. These boys are the voice of the minority. The arguments shake the very foundation of the humanity. To bring about democracy, the so called liberators put fellow citizens to the sword & fire. First of all ethnic minority mayor of the main city of the maim minority area. The Pol Pot the second himself assassinates the mayor & admits & boasts. There goes bombs & bullets. Rampage & carnage. “Now if the masses did not believe that it matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish; that to do otherwise is to legitimize it.” Comments Salman Rushdie. And the masses fails in its duty. The first principle from which Hitler started was a value judgment: the masses are utterly contemptible, wrote Huxley. Since you are so contemptible, in this context, I will not let you down, of course I will take you down, the whole race of just 15 million. Do you hear the whisper of the thunder? The masses are bewildered. to masses long cherished truth becomes a blatant lie. All of you have been living a lie, masses are told. Somebody somehow manages to realize the folly & tries in van to put up his argument. His reason & truth known to all until yesterday, his voice is no longer heard: it is drowned in the deafening noises of the propaganda bombs. He is lost in the uproar. Could it be possible all of these peoples are wrong? No it ought be myself, who is wrong. Oh! Yes, there ought to be long suppressed legitimate grievances of the minority for them to take up arms & resort to violence of such sc ale. And now he is unable to understand the so-called grievances of minority are common to all & sundry: of the poverty stricken country. to both majority as well as minority: unable to recall majority itself rebelled against the democratically elected government. His credulity is tested to apocalypse: his gullibility is stretched to abyss. Heart of darkness.” Let us imagine a desert country lying in absolute darkness with many living things swarming blindly about it”

A man leads a sheep by a rope, his favorite sheep & the wonderful pet of his little son. On the way a passing friend of his asks him “Why are you carrying a dead hedgehog by rope, for what purpose would it serve?” The man ignores his friend & carry on. He couldn’t go long before another friend if him who happens to come across asks the same question. The man turn back to have a hard & intense look at the sheep & reassure himself. And then again & again. Once again & once again, oh! Hell all lands the same question I must have become insane . this couldn’t be my sheep. My sheep must be playing with my little son at home. I must get rid of that carcass before it is too late & becoming the butt of all jokes of whole village. The truth is no longer the truth.

A train load of academics en route to a conference. The train crosses a frontier, & passes a sheep. Oh look, says the sociologist, “ the sheep in this country are black’. No, says the physicist, “one sheep in this country is black’ “ Too risky, replies the mathematician, “one sheep in this country is currently black.” “Hump says the philosopher, “one sheep in this country seems black on one side”.

Now have you ever seen green sheep? Have you ever seen just one animal of a family with a singular color with exception of albinos? Have you ever seen an animal with two colors on each side? Have you ever seen an animal who is black on Sunday & White on Monday? To go by received wisdom & plain common sense would for these temporal matters.

Following (in italics) is an excerpt from the article CONNECTING THE DOTS
The paradoxes of intelligence reform. by MALCOLM GLADWELL published in The New YorkerIssue of 2003-03-10 Posted 2003-03-03

In the early nineteen-seventies, a professor of psychology at Stanford University named David L. Rosenhan gathered together a painter, a graduate student, a pediatrician, a psychiatrist, a housewife, and three psychologists. He told them to check into different psychiatric hospitals under aliases, with the complaint that they had been hearing voices. They were instructed to say that the voices were unfamiliar, and that they heard words like “empty,” thud,” and “hollow.” Apart from that initial story, the pseudo patients were instructed to answer every question truthfully, to behave as they normally would, and to tell the hospital staff—at every opportunity—that the voices were gone and that they had experienced no further symptoms. The eight subjects were hospitalized, on average, for nineteen days. One was kept for almost two months. Rosenhan wanted to find out if the hospital staffs would ever see through the ruse. They never did.

Rosenhan’s test is, in a way, a classic intelligence problem. Here was a signal (a sane person) buried in a mountain of conflicting and confusing noise (a mental hospital), and the intelligence analysts (the doctors) were asked to connect the dots—and they failed spectacularly. In the course of their hospital stay, the eight-pseudo patients were given a total of twenty-one hundred pills. They underwent psychiatric interviews, and sober case summaries documenting their pathologies were written up. They were asked by Rosenhan to take notes documenting how they were treated, and this quickly became part of their supposed pathology. “Patient engaging in writing behavior,” one nurse ominously wrote in her notes. Having been labeled as ill upon admission, they could not shake the diagnosis. “Nervous?” a friendly nurse asked one of the subjects as he paced the halls one day. “No,” he corrected her, to no avail, “bored.”

The solution to this problem seems obvious enough. Doctors and nurses need to be made alert to the possibility that sane people sometimes get admitted to mental hospitals. So Rosenhan went to a research-and-teaching hospital and informed the staff that at some point in the next three months he would once again send over one or more of his pseudo patients. This time, of the hundred and ninety-three patients admitted in the three-month period, forty-one were identified by at least one staff member as being almost certainly sane. Once again, however, they were wrong. Rosenhan hadn’t sent anyone over. In attempting to solve one kind of intelligence problem (over diagnosis), the hospital simply created another problem (under diagnosis). This is the second, and perhaps more serious, consequence of creeping determinism: in our zeal to correct what we believe to be the problems of the past, we end up creating new problems for the future.

Again, on 16th August 1998, Cape Town, South Arica. Americans Linda & Peter Biehl swallowed hard & told the media: we understand. Just the way they said & did five years ago, when a mob stoned & stabbed their 26 year old daughter to death in South Africa. As onlookers chanted anti-white slogans, as her black friends ran towards her to beg for her life “ She’s a comrade, a comrade” a black high school student plunged a knife to the hilt, into the heart of Amy Biehl. “ To be honest, I don’t have it in me to hate the killers, I just don’t” Peter says. “ To me, I never personalized it with the killers’, Linda interjects. “ I think you can say who really is responsible for this killing. You go back to creators of apartheid. These guys are political victims”. Do you hear this word? If the parents of the murdered innocent girl herself profess to understand, unable to personalize the murder of their own daughter, sees the bloody murderer as a political victim & not a cold blooded murderer, do you expect me, a outside viewer with no higher rights in the perspective of parents- daughter blood bond, to come up with a argument to the contrary? I’ll be damned. Let me bring her brother. Zach who was 16 when his sister was murdered, now 21, doesn’t like to talk about Amy’s death. He is tired of being known as the guy whose sister got killed in South Africa, tired of being at the receiving end of continuous Hate Mail that brands the family “Bloody Nigger Lovers”. ‘I rather not really comment on that because I don’t necessarily agree with their forgiveness of my father & mother.
The marginal man understands very well since he doesn’t understand at all. That is he does not understand the so-called intellectuals, propaganda experts, apologists of blood & thunder & his own power hungry politicians. Neither does he understand Linda & Peter Biehl. As Isaiah Berlin has honesty to write “to understand all is to see that nothing could be otherwise than it is. In other word, to understand all is to capitulate to the status quo” Let’s keep the basics: thou shalt not kill: you have no right to take the life of another human being. “What are the grievances they suffer from that we ourselves do not suffer? “Even if they are suffering, they have no right to take up arms. I don’t see them as very political, at last in the best sense of the word: I see them as sick, warped & depraved fanatic mass murders” says the mother of 10 children. “ What can do except taking up arms when the causes of their suffering are not addressed & their grievances are not redressed? Asks the baby of the family. “Suffer them,” replies the mother of ten. She is not educated but, far from it, she is not even literate. but she never misses the Sunday sermon by the local parish priest. The brief reply of hers is the base of whole of the Christian cannon. No matter it is 21st century, now, blood or thunder, Narcotics & Guns, Rapes & legalized abortions, Aids & contraception, come what may, the Pope refused to budge an inch. No. the whole moral fabric would crumble, once provisions are made to the stipulations, exceptions are made to the commandments. As Pope repeated & repeatedly repeated, we cannot relativise what is absolute & no great cause of our will have a meaning unless right to life of humans are protected.

Victor Davis Hanson & John Heath write in “Who killed Homer”.

Canons that are unchanging offer a permanent, if sometimes unpleasant solution to the crime & conflict alike. And this absolutism runs much further than Moses’ tablets. At the core of Greek belief system lays the conviction that there are unchanging absolutes in the world, ageless & immune from situation & interpretation, a small but vital body of knowledge that is largely agreed-on & indisputable. This is a body of guided hammered out through trial & error, vote & veto, consensus & discord. It is derived from generations of rational discussion & argumentation by wise men & ultimately by from the traditional approval of the citizenry.

That straight arrow Vaclave Havel once said “My position seems to be one of a dreamer who mumbles something about ideals, completely untouched by real life, where politics takes a different course. But this is a very banal view. In reality it seems to me that my constant repetition of certain planted seeds”

In a village dispute in decided to Punjab area of Pakistan in the year 2002, a tribal village council its decision to punish a family condemned Mukhtaran, a tall slim young women to gang-raped by her neighbours. The begging , crying women was stripped naked, raped by four & sent home naked. Iso shamed, in spite of temptations to commit suicide, she turned out to be tenacious , found courage to live & demand prosecution of her attackers. Six were convicted & sent to death row. She received USD 8300 in compensation & built two schools for girls & boys.

Although she her herself being, Illiterate, she believes education is the best way to get rid of tribal attitudes such as the savagery which inflicted damage & shame upon her. In September 2004, Nicholos D. Kristof visited Mukhtaran in her village & in rspose to his column about the tribal savagery, avalanche of mails together with 1300 donations totaling to USD133,000 at the time Mukhtaran’s family cow was sold to keep the schools running. Mercy corp, a first rate American aid group has agreed to assist Mukhtaran.

Meanwhile the Big Bully neighbor spares no chance. Let’s train the guerrillas so that we could teach the buggers a fine lesson. They have been bloody arrogant to open up the economy of theirs when our giant & great county is content to carry on with closed socialist economy. At the rate tiny island is developing, we would be at a disadvantage to compete for the location for the re-establishment of that great commercial hub should it opt to shift the base with the change of guard form colonialists to the Communists. Its 99 year lease is coming to an end & this bloody island neighbor of ours with its newly opened up economy hasn’t already passed signals? The terrorists change gear: here is a God Mother, moral succor, material support, military training, intelligence & land for the training bases so that they could hit & run & hide in the God Mother’s sari? God Mother little knew what was soon coming onto her then onto her son.

Now the greatest of all hopes to the minority lands from unexpected quarters. What else on the earth could better than visa to a Western country? The great sympathizers are not aware the so called sharp weapon scars are inflicted on the applicants by their own comrades for the benefit of the visa officers.” Look at my shoulders & chest, aren’t these the are tangible evidence of torture at the hands of security forces?’ Thousands of terrorists are among the hundreds of thousands of ordinary citizens of the minority. All to the West. Westward ho! Oklahoma Land rush, California Gold Rush… Yahooooo………..A contribution to a worthy cause: charity to the deserved desperate & desperate deserved. First charity, then coercion, the utter force: true Mafia style in their adopted Western lands. Now American, Canadian & Australian dollars flow in to the kitty of the terrorists. French Franks, Swiss Franks, Norwegian krones, Dutch Guilders…. Crash lands. The gunrunners, arms dealers pay regular visits. Where is the money for deals of the predators? You name it, we give it. So easy. Of course you may in any of those hard currencies or in a mixed bag of currencies. Welcome aboard. Shop around, lick you lips don’t be shy to ask us how these modern mass killing weapons are operated. Look at those multiple barrel launchers, not even your enemy the government has these darlings its armory. You can wipe out whole damn camps off the face of the mother earth & no son of a bitch would be spared. You will no longer be hit & run guerrillas. You will become conventional army overnight. If the Young men aren’t enough get the girl, form a baby brigade; you know teenagers will go headlong.

Plenty is what the terrorists bring in that is plenty of all evil, murder & mayhem, blood & gore, rack & ruin. Major battles, N\Bomb blasts of key government buildings, banks, power stations, main transport depots, aircrafts, trains, oil refineries, suicide bombing of Prime Minister of the Big Bully, President of the Island, Cabinet ministers, Military Commanders, midnight massacres of villagers, gunning down of monks at temples, people praying at mosques, decimation of all rival gangs, killing of Appas & comrades & anyone of their own race who whisper a single word in protest & as many as possible of majority of the country.

“O Arjuna,” Krishna Continued, “ in this world I have taught a twofold way of life; the way of knowledge for men who engage in a contemplation, & the way of works for men of actions. One cannot maintain even one’s physical life without action. Therefore, do your allotted work regardless of results, for men attain the highest good by doing work without attachment to its results. Resign yourself to me & fix your consciousness in the self, without desire or egoism, & then fight, freed from your fever.” Thousands of unknown sons of the soil give their lives so that others could live; & others their limbs. Thousands.

Once upon a time there lived two tribes of wise monkeys o the banks of a wonderful river similar

To the one you see in Blue Lagoon yet minus semi naked Brook Shields on debut. While the Monkeys of the tribe “ Reason” lived I the village side of the wonderful blue river of clear & clean waters. Didn’t I say these were wise monkey? They respected received knowledge unlike the terrorists. On both banks of the river there was bounty of Banana treed. There was no mutiny on the bounty. Didn’t I say both are with its own bounty of Banana? You wouldn’t witness such bountiful of rich Banana even in the Republic Banana. Those were luscious bananas; fat as Sultan of Paradise & long as the capital of Pathans & ripe & sweet as Monica.. And here is the variety. Variety of Banana & customs. The Monkeys of the tribe ‘ Reason” used to wash the bananas in the wonderful blood river, peel & eat. But the monkeys of the tribe “Truth” never washed Bananas but just pealed & whacked to the hearts content. Yes, to the tummy’s content too. No They never did. They never did go to battle on the custom of the other tribe. The reason was simple. Though the non-bloody monkeys were wise they were never burdened with the “word” in which they could have imposed their custom upon the other tribe. There was no language in spite of the Banana culture,. In the Banana circumstances there was no way of pushing your culture down the throat of the other tribe. They lived happily. They lived happily in peace. No. the lack of ‘word” wasn’t the reason. There was bountiful of Banana on the both banks of the river, So there was always bountiful of Banana to eat, play , waste & experiment. That was the reason. Oh! No that wasn’t the reason. Look at Quebec clamoring fro a separate state in affluent Canada. One of the tribe was Truth while other was Reason & both of the tribes respected received Wisdom. How could there ever be a conflict? Oh! No! that’s not the reason either. There was no Pol Pot among the apes.Don’t you need an Pol Pot to give birth killing Fields? Jonathan Kay writes in National Post of Canada in June 2000, “ What causes armed rebellions? The mainstream view in the West is that they are the product of the long standing in equality & repression. And many of us assume the violence would stop if the rebels’ grievances were dealt fairly. But recent research casts doubt on this charitable attitude. According to 35 year survey of 161 countries released in June 2000 by the Development Research Group of the World Bank, economic inequality has no statistically discernible effect on the ignition of civil war. Nor does a nation’s political system: All other factors being equal, a countr4y that provides citizens with democratic rights is no more or less susceptible to civil war than that does not. And where predicting future conflict is concerned, the World Bank study shows that a “ grievance- based” model of civil war is less accurate than a “greed-based” model. Under the later, armed rebellion is analyzed strictly by reference to objective factors that affect a rebel group’s access to plunderable resources such as diamonds & cocaine. Of course, when they solicit funds, rebels always speak the language of grievance, not greed. As the report notes, “ where rebellions happen to be financially viable wars will occur. As part of the process of war, the rebel organization must generate group grievance for military effectiveness. The generation of group grievance for war. Thus, the war produces the intense political conflict, not the intense political conflict the war.” The report also notes that if the society in which the rebellion occurs is ethnically diverse… the obvious discourse for the rebel leadership to adopt with its recruits is that of ethnic grievance.’ Johnathan kay writing a step further, says two months ago, the Development Research Group published data suggesting that Diaspora remittances substantially increase the risk of conflict in war-torn countries. For instance, researchers found out that, all other factors being equal, the risk of conflict starting after the at least five years of peace is six times greater in nations with the largest Diasporas as compared to those with the smallest. The report’s observation that” after peace has been restored, the legacy of conflict-induces grievance enables rebel movements to restart conflict by drawing on the support of their Diasporas. It took word Bank 35 years to come to senses. It would take another 35 years to implement the policing to suppress the rebellions.

Some say there would never be peace in Angola because of the diamonds & the oil. Mozambique, because it has no oil & no diamonds- in other words because it is a poor country-could expect a lot more.

Sweet bloody sixteen plus two bloody years later. Thousands of human lives later; lives of the dependents of those killed put into disarray hundreds of thousands later; destruction of public & private property, billions later; and the funds that would have financed the island at the time of possible Japanese investments in the style of Indonesia & Malaysia (didn’t we miss the bus or rather bullet train?), billions later, a former ambassador to the Island from a western Economic Power house laments of the migrant smuggling, drug trafficking, street violence, extortion, passport forgery & fraud, fund raising (USD 2 million a month from 38 western countries & Australia) for terrorism being done by a section of the people to whom he granted visa to his affluent country. Jonathan Kay writes in National Post of Canada in June 2000 “ Our failure in this regard arises in large measure from a misguided interpretation of multiculurism that seems to hold that, if we are to show full respect for our newcomers, we must be prepared to tolerate any & all vices they may bring with them, which may include bitter animosities & plans for the resolving of differences in their former homelands by violent means. Surely we can find a way of receiving, & indeed, rejoicing in the richness & diversity that newcomers bring to this country without having to accept views that are fundamentally in conflict with our values & that suggests that they have litt6le interest in our country except as a convenient place from which to settle vendettas I the other parts of the world. An even greater failure on the part of our country, however, is that we have allowed ovrselves at the political level to be manipulated & exploited by them.”

Ours is a tragic era. Tragedy is not confined to the democratically elected governments of under-developed countries battling terrorism. It is seen in every field, sphere & aspect of human life. I t seems, there runs a ferocious high tide to turn the history, ethics & justice. Art & Literature upside down, inside out. Laments the most powerful nation on the planet on its ally.” Every generation has to rewrite the history, we’re in the middle of a serious revision. Anyone with children will know that homework stands everything you ever thought on its head; heroes are really villains, battles won are really massacres inflicted, black is white & black are right.” That’s a mouthful of history. And our island is not far behind: government would not even allow a screening a cartoon film set on the life & battles of a hero of the majority race.

In United States, antiabortion fanatics wave their Bibles in one-hand & torch family planning clinics with the other. Some Sate governments distribute, free of charge, disposable injection needles to the College students so that they wouldn’t contract ids by way of using of using using the needles o to have heroin & Ecstasy into themselves; a shot in the arms for the errant & deviants. Condoms too are distributed into the bargain. All that instead of launching a campaign to get the students off the hook of drugs. And you may visit your preferred college library reference sections: petting & heavy petting. Isn’t that a fine code of ethics? That’s the land of Lincoln, Jefferson, Edison & Einstein.

Among the 200 men named the “ Most Stylish of the 20th century” in an issue in 1999 British GQ Was a Nazi. Filed Marshal Erwin Rommel, Desert Fox was tapped as a man who’d retained style in the face of true adversity” After a firestorm I the British papers, which included complaints from Holocaust, & with due respect to the 6 million victims was the naming of Desert Fox good enough a reason to amake an uproar & then to have the editor dismissed? When we are unable to sort out justice even in a fashion parade of dead soldiers, should we argue on genuine issues?

The starting point for all systems of aesthetics must be the personal experience of a peculiar emotion. The objects that provoke this emotion we call works of art. “Look at the dried dung! “ What ? If I said “Look at the sunset!”, would you have asked “ what”? On 29th October 1997 Royal Academy of Arts held a fine exhibition of Arts: Sensation- Young British Artists from the Saatchi collection. Among the Works of Art was a cross section of a calf immersed n a glass vat.” All you need is a bit of twisted imagination & chain-saw.” Said the Young Artist Damien Hirst himself of his Work Of Art. He said it. And that’s art for you: dung. Well done Damien, goddam artist, aberration incarnate. To which cannon, to which tradition, to which culture, to which era does your art belong? Would you ever be able to imagine or dream just a half a stroke of paintbrush of Van Gough or Monet?

The Marquis de Sade, whose name provided the word Sadism; who professed absolute freedom, which according to him warrants all imaginative crimes, including murder; who rebelled against God, against man, against morality, against justice, against ethics, against literature, against everything, was recently rehabilitated by ay of English translations of all his banned & hidden books following the so called liberating sweep of 1960, which brought pornography & obscenity to all wayside bookstalls, public libraries, theaters & cinema of the west & most of all to the living rooms of the West. Roger Shattuck writes,” Sade’s success in our day explained by the dream that he had in common with contemporary thought: the demand for total freedom coldly planned by the intelligence… two centuries ahead of time on a reduced scale, Sade extolled totalitarion societies in the name of unbilled freedom. That’s an incredible advocate to our devils. Shattuck asks” Shall we receive among our literary classics, the works of another who desecrate & inverts every principle of human justice & decency developed over 4000 years of civilized life? Has the 20th century made, in respect of the Marquis de Sade, one of history’s most egregious errors of cultural judgment by placing his works among our masterpieces? “Sell me the slut Julliete, I’ll pay for her. I want to buy her. Let’s besmirch ourselves together-you by the sin of selling her to me. I by the even more stimulating sin of paying for in order to kill her. OH! Yes, yes, Juliette let’s murder your daughter. And pulling out his….show it to me: Examine how this execrable idea inflame all my sense. Get yourself f… now, Julitte……….

Crime has nothing fearsome about when you are…. And it’s always in the midst of waves of come that one must cherish its charms. I am being f…. Noirceuil asks me a second time what I want to do to my daughter. Oh! Monsieur, I cry out while disch… “ you wi, your perfidious power smothers every sentiment in me except crime & infamy. Do what you want with Marianne, blasted villain; I turn her over to you.

He had no sooner heard these words then he pulls out of her, grasps the poor child, throw her naked into the middle of the flames……………. Jullietee by Marquis de Sade. Words, on which I have relied, so long, fail me miserably. I’ll never love again. No, I do now & will till I drop dead.

Is the general degeneration of human values is a result of terrorism or is it the ferocity of terrorism resulted in a degeneration of human values, or is it a cycle? “ All I see is that we cannot know! This burns my heart”. We can only live, err & strive according to our mortal lot; die tat. According to our lights in received wisdom. If such is fate of ours, how do we arrest the decline in human values? Back to school. Let’s bring back the Western Literary Canon back to school. This is not to hold fast to the argument that stupidity is merely a simple absence of knowledge that can be corrected by education. But if we do not try will the world change? Even if the ground is lost to the argument that stupidity is a dimension of human existence, it can still be controlled with continuous education. Education from primary grades with Gulliver’s Travel” to grades with “Iliad & Mahabaratha” to infuse in the mind & heart of the young youth with a deeper sense of humanity. Humanity throughout the epic of Homer’s Iliad needs no elaboration. Homer said all about sanctity of nature & humanity that could have been said within the limitations of expression of a mortal. Roger Shattuck’s writes Forbidden Knowledge, “In swift’s satirical fiction, Gulliver describes the wonderful invention of gunpowder & cannon to the King of Brobodingang; the king is “ struck with horror” & protests that he would rather lose half the kingdom than be privy to such a secret, which he commanded me, as I value of my life, never to mention any more”. Such is the humanity of fiction taught in the primary grades in those days. We cannot do better but revive the same tradition of education.

In the year 1970, I one of his essays an I Israeli schoolboy wrote “ Who will give something to bring about a situation such as this-that all human beings will live in peace, will not murder & will not covet the land of one’s neighbor? Twenty-four years later. Baruch Goldstein, now a grown up man who preached Ten Commandments so, massacred dozens of Arabs at prayer in the West Bank city of Hebron. Does this leads to the conclusion that educating children with reasons on humanity would not serve our purpose in the end, would all be in vain ultimately? Hardly so. Goldstein provide us with all the more reason & passion to make greater efforts t o shape the characters from the very beginning, by way of constant repeatition of very essence of Great Literature of humanity.