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By Jagath Asoka<\/span><\/a> –<\/b><\/p>\n

\"DR.<\/a>

DR. Jagath Asoka<\/p><\/div>\n

Today, we are going to have fun, get to know each other, and play a game. This is our playground; if you want to play with me, keep on reading. Always, I like to play, both cerebral and corporeal games. My heaven is where I can play tennis; hell is where there is no tennis. All work and no play makes Jagath a dull boy. <\/b>Before we play our game, I need to tell you why we are going to play this game. It is all about politics, stupid; you cannot escape it; even when you are alone in a cave, struggling to concentrate on your own breath, it is all about politics: your conscious mind against your unconscious. Only death will separate you from this scourge: politics.<\/p>\n

Even though I abhor the methods, tactics, vision, white-van abductions, intimidations, collusions, thuggery, bribery, impunity, and nepotism of Mahinda Rajapaksa<\/span><\/a>, I understand why some people think that Mahinda is a saint. Most Sri Lankans behave worse than barbarians when it comes to fighting for political power. Since independence, we have not had charismatic, sagacious visionaries like Washington, Lincoln, Roosevelt, Churchill, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and Mandela. There is no difference between the Sri Lankans who elect their politicians and the politicians that they elect. It is like picking an apple from a barrel of rotten apples. I was told that as far as thuggery is concerned, the way Madam Chadrika used thuggery makes Monsieur Mahinda look like Mother Theresa.<\/p>\n

In all recent elections in Sri Lanka, some people think that Lankans are electing their devils; I mean, \u201cThey elect<\/b> the devil they know than the devil they don’t know.\u201d<\/b> I totally disagree with them; I think in all recent elections, Sri Lankans had to choose between a crook who is a notorious thug and a crook who is also a thug, but not yet notorious; <\/b>Sri Lankans always choose the crook who is a notorious thug because the crook who is also a thug, but not yet notorious, may turn out to be worse.<\/p>\n

Right now, if Mahinda were to drop dead\u2014relax, all of us are going to drop dead\u2014because of some divine intervention or afflation, who is going to be our next president: Ranil, Sagith, Karu, Sarath Fonseka, a JVP member, a Tamil politician, a Muslim politician, Gotabaya, Basil, or Chamal?<\/b><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s play a game to find out what we really think of these characters who are leading us by misleading. I would like to use the Word Association Test developed by the famous psychoanalyst Carl Gustav Jung.<\/p>\n

Jung used his Word Association Method to solve crimes, or to analyze the unconscious fears, desires, and phobias of his patients. Jung would use a set of carefully chosen words. For example\u2014a simplified example would be\u2014to find out whether a man has committed a murder, Jung would use words such as anger, door, knife, and stab. And he would ask his test subject to respond to each word with the first word that would come to his test subject\u2019s mind. Then Jung would write down all the answers and measure the time that it took for each response. If it takes a longer time to come up with the response that means that particular word is troublesome. For example, let\u2019s say that \u201cJim\u201d and \u201cTanya\u201d are my dear friends. And if you agree to play this Word Association test with me, let\u2019s say that when I say \u201cJim,\u201d you would say \u201cidiot,\u201d or when I say \u201cTanya,\u201d you would say \u201cbitch.\u201d It is very easy for me figure out\u2014I am not Dr. Carl Jung\u2014what you think of my dear friends Jim and Tanya. Let\u2019s continue with the test; when I say \u201cJim or Tanya,\u201d if you would say \u201ckill,\u201d It would be obvious to me that you want to kill \u201cJim the idiot,\u201d or \u201cTanya the bitch.\u201d Even if you are brain-dead, it would be pretty obvious to you that any delay in your response would reveal that you have a complex, that you are trying to hide the bitter truth, and that you are unwilling to admit your crimes, desires, or mistakes.<\/p>\n

Please take Jung\u2019s Words Association Test that I modified (given below) and let me know your results. Please avoid profanity because the editors of this website are not going to publish profanity due to the laws, rules, etiquettes, protocols, and regulations of journalism. I personally think it is very unfair; I think we should let people express their feelings; after all they are just using words, not kicking me in the groin. As long as people do not attack each other with fists and clubs, words are always welcome, even profanity, which some people use as their nuclear option, or to display their asinine stupidity. I do not react to words as others do; so if you are using words or phrases such as \u201cmoron,\u201d \u201cfaggot,\u201d \u201cTamil terrorist,\u201d and \u201cidiot\u201d or any other word or phrase to attack me, it is not going to work. These words such as \u201cmoron,\u201d \u201cfaggot,\u201d \u201cTamil terrorist,\u201d and \u201cidiot\u201d that you use to attack me are the words that your own mind spontaneously generate to describe yourself. Since you cannot admit to yourself that you are a \u201cmoron\u201d \u201cfaggot,\u201d \u201cTamil terrorist,\u201d or \u201cidiot,\u201d you reflect them on me. Remember what Mara did to the Buddha in his final assault; all Mara\u2019s attacks turned into flowers; same thing is happening with your profanity, insults, and gibes when you use them to attack me. My home is full of perfumed flowers because of those who have been attacking me. Most of you have a very good sense of humor. Only a \u201cJim or Tanya\u201d who is \u201csoft in the head\u201d would use slang and profanity; slang\/profanity and humor are like darkness and light. Your diction\u2014your choice of words\u2014would tell me whether you are \u201cMax,\u201d \u201cJim,\u201d\u00a0 \u201cTanya,\u201d \u201cDude,\u201d or \u201cSilva.\u201d Some of you know that we know each other\u2014my dear childhood friends\u2014and some of you think that I do not know you. So, learn some new words and rules of grammar to improve your vocabulary, diction, and syntax. If you have trouble learning, please let me know, and I will help you over Skype; I have been tutoring people using Skype. First, when you read my articles, make sure that you not only understand the meaning of each and every word, syntax, and the ideas conveyed by each sentence before you display your sophistication, erudition, education, or asinine stupidity. \u00a0I do not know about you, but writing and reading is my bliss; writing and reading is where time is not; writing and reading is my cerebral playground. I am an educator, not a politician; before I became a medical\/technical writer in 2001, I taught chemistry and science at eleven universities for 17 years. Now, I write, and writing has not supplanted teaching; writing is an extension of my teaching career.<\/p>\n

As I am writing this article, I am going to take Jung\u2019s Word Association Test with the following words: Ranil, Sagith, Karu, Sarath Fonseka, JVP President, Tamil President, Muslim President, Gotabaya, Basil, and Chamal. <\/b>\u00a0I am going to write down the first word that comes to my mind. If my response is not instantaneous, I will notify \u201cDelayed Response<\/b>.\u201d First, I will give the word and then my response separated by a colon, and within parenthesis, separated by a semi-colon, I would notify \u201cSpontaneous<\/b>\u201d or \u201cDelayed Response<\/b>.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 If I cannot write my first response, I will let you know.<\/p>\n