why?
in ‘androgyny’ shirley manson asks ‘why can’t we all just get along?’
why, indeed.
indi has a great post on this very same question : albeit slightly angrier and heartfelt. the situation has really boiled down to the point where the sri lankan people are left with two options : either you ‘burn your churches, temples, newspapers and schools to a pure ash or grow up and fucking deal.’
it is no longer just ‘their’ war. it is no longer just ‘their’ problem. it’s not just the GoSL or the LTTE or the JVP or the norwegians. it us, too. us with our racism and our intolerance and our inability to grow up a little and look the hell around : our determined inability to see that a world beyond us and our two cents worth does exist.
if we want a ‘united sri lanka’, it’s not going to come to us in our sleep. we have to be prepared to live it, not just talk about it, not just dream about it.
we’re not begging with with our bleeding hearts to revel in the joys of a multi-cultural society, we’re not asking you to rejoice in the diversity of sri lanka’s various communities and cultures. that would be great, but it’s not even that sentimental. we’re just asking you to learn to live with each other.
your sentiments are of course good, but as usual with sl bloggers dealing with this issue, vague.
hoping everyone to ‘grow up’ and live with each other is all for the best. (most ppl btw do that already)
but will it stop the violence by those who do not?
what specifically should we do when some ppl prefer violence.
do we appease them so that their violence does not affect us but only ppl in ne who will have to live under them?
or should we do what we do(or at least supposed to do) with regard to violent criminals ?
but wouldn’t that involve violence (some of it unintentionally against innocents)?
unless we can answer those specifically no amount of vague sentiments won’t change anything.
Comment by sittingnut — June 21, 2006 @ 10:47 am
there is no defined structure of how a society would be, it wud be the greatest things ever, if everyone starts accepting your idealism and the way. is everythin on the same level of tolerance and acceptance of multicultural society or simply one wants to dominate the other. as a majority of this nation ppl have taken the idea of extremism as being liberal. this is not to entire majority, it is those to who wanna suppress the minority. i live among the majoirty who has embraced my minority culture and everything about it but there are few among those who still fear the minority and want to keep the minority as them.
Comment by maximuslk — June 21, 2006 @ 11:09 am
Talking and writing are important in themselves, ‘vague’ as they are. Action without thought is usually destructive, no matter the intentions. If Sitting Nut wants to start a revolution that’s his business, but the hard work of sifting through ‘vague’ ideas is important in itself
Comment by indi — June 21, 2006 @ 3:37 pm
indi:
yes, action without thought is mostly destructive. vague idealism is mostly useless, sometimes destructive.
thoughts and ideas need to be clear and take account of reality to be effective and beneficial. and one way of sifting through ideas is to ask questions.
btw i have no intention of starting a revolution. i hate them having lived through one based on vague idealism.
maximuslk:
it wud be the greatest things ever, if everyone starts accepting your idealism and the way.
quite right, but what are we to do when ppl do not in reality? that is why we need clarity.
Comment by sittingnut — June 21, 2006 @ 6:51 pm
Great blog! Keep it up…
Regards,
Jason
Comment by Jason Ertel — June 22, 2006 @ 1:26 am