It’s the Sri Lankan Revolution, Ignoramus!

When governments fall they do not fall because of the opposing forces of the people but they fall because they go against the ruling classes or the bourgeoisie. It is the ruling class that generally tends to have power over the people and they then coordinate that power to stand against that government. The French revolution, Hitler’s fascist revolution, all occurred from the manipulation of the people. Therefore a force has to arise from within the people and has to take the lead to bring the people towards a new government and consequently form a new ruling class.

That’s what we need in the damn country if you ask me. A revolution! Screw the communists, the PA and the UNP we need an all new force to arise from the heart of the people. A force that is modern enough to take us away from all our archaic socio-economic policies and conditions. A movement to revitalize our minds and refresh the conscience of this nation, a movement to remove all the false biases and conventions that are embedded in our minds and all the illusions that have been cast upon the minds of the common people. A movement to release the proletariat or the working classes from the grip of alcohol and drugs and raise their level of consciousness to lift up the national economy. It’s like the Chinese said; every two hands come with a free brain attached.

But such a movement will have to arise from the grassroots level. Work will have to be done in the bottom of the social order to vitalize them into action. The government’s disease of complacency has spread to every corner of society and as things are right now, I do not think anyone is going to protest unless petrol prices go through the tallest roof in the country and food becomes a pure luxury. It is amazing how much people in this country tolerate when it comes to economics/quality of life aspects. I mean god forbid someone from a different religion has the balls to express his god given rights in your society but hey, it’s fine if the government wants to kill you really really slowly by depriving you of everything you need for your daily sustenance. It’s our government right? And that fat chap in that white ‘jathika anduma’ did give his lifelong promise to never let us down didn’t he?

I swear, some people need to get the basics right. The masses of this country seem to have been fooled so much that they have replaced sound religious, scientific and moral judgments and principles with conventions and made up traditions. A small example; apparently there is nothing that prevents people from having funerals on Tuesdays and Fridays. I was listening to a Buddhist monk talk the other day and he was saying how that particular habit developed from the 80s during the troubles with the JVP. When there were bodies everywhere, particularly floating on the rivers. The government apparently banned funerals or taking bodies away or some such thing on those days due to some reason or the other and thus started a tradition that lives to this day that lacks any sound base.

Being a Muslim, I was also Shocked (yes my shock warrants a capital‘s’) to see a few weeks ago Muslims fighting Muslims in a political rigmarole in the East and setting fire to some poor guy’s tuk tuk while they were at it. Politicians have blinded the masses and taken control of their minds and willpower by the manifestation of their own god complex and by taking advantage of their poverty, social situation and lack of knowledge.

For a people to rise up as one and make something of themselves, they have to first smarten up. We just seem to be a bunch of worker bees striving hard to just somehow make some money during the day to make ends meet and have some leftover for booze coupled with a few mind numbing joints during the weekends. We are emotionally and rationally numb to our environments and simply choose to ignore and pretend that the things we do not like do not exist.

We need a wakeup call and we can either wake up and smell the burning ashes of our homes and loved ones a few years of ignorance later, or smell the coffee (or what’s left of it after all the garbage) now.