{"id":196658,"date":"2018-12-05T17:19:54","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T11:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=196658"},"modified":"2018-12-10T00:42:04","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T19:12:04","slug":"a-truth-truer-than-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/a-truth-truer-than-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"A Truth Truer Than Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Sarath de Alwis<\/a>\u00a0–<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Sarath De Alwis<\/p><\/div>\n

We must not trust a man willing to die in glory but unwilling to live with truth and pride. Politicians who succeed in convincing themselves that the truth is identical with their self-interest turn out to be exceptionally good at being good liars. The best political liars are those who do not see reason and hence lie convincingly. Even when it becomes obvious that they are lying they insist that they are telling the truth and other party is guilty of untruth.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

When my son asked me if I had listened to the President\u2019s speech at the Sugathadasa Stadium<\/a><\/strong> on Tuesday, my\u00a0 <\/span>initial and\u00a0<\/span>laconic riposte was that\u00a0<\/span>I did not see the logic of taking blood pressure medication\u00a0<\/span>and listening to a man who in my humble opinion has not only decided to fly over the cuckoo\u2019s nest but has now opted to remain in permanent orbit over the cuckoo nest. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Fate intervenes in funny ways. Before going to bed last night, I changed my mind. I listened to the long emotional outburst of Maithripala Sirisena<\/a><\/strong>, the President at the SLFP conference held on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It was a terrifying tantrum of rage. It was an accusatory expression of indignation. It contained traces of tears and a great deal of self-pity.\u00a0<\/span>It was revealing theater of the absurd. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

That he began his peroration with a reference to SWRD Bandaranaike, the founder of the SLFP was a cruel quirk of history.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Watching the event on a live video<\/a><\/strong> was spine chillingly startling.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

There was the very learned, consummately cosmopolitan, tantalizingly tribal Social Anthropologist and politician Dr. Sarath Amunugama<\/a><\/strong> on the front row applauding the Phony Pericles of Polonnaruwa. He was nodding approval and clapping profusely watching Sirisena exploiting\u00a0<\/span>the\u00a0<\/span>hurriedly convened extraordinary national convention of the SLFP to explain his freakish, outlandish exercise of presumed presidential prerogatives since 26th<\/sup> October – the day he sacked Ranil and installed Mahinda as prime minster.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

That was a real shame.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

President Sirsena did not have the good fortune of either attending a university or listening to SWRD Banadaranaike<\/a><\/strong>\u2019s famous convocation address at\u00a0<\/span>Peradeniya in 1957. It was there, that he encapsulated the epochal transition from elite governance to democratic governance in the ‘age of the common man’ that is now cast in stone in our popular psyche. It was painful to watch the cheer squad of parvenus in the front row of the Tuesday\u2019s event. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Dr. Sarath Amunugama the mass media mandarin\u00a0<\/span>applauding the “messiah” promising never to make\u00a0 <\/span>Ranil \u2013 the neoliberal ogre Prime Minister at the SLFP circus, not only attended the then \u2018University of Ceylon\u2019 but was a privileged participant in the Peradeniya event where Bandaranaike explained the Huxleyan paradox of the \u2018thesis and antithesis \u2018and the Solomonic synthesis he hoped to achieve though his Sri Lanka Freedom party.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

One of SWRD\u2019s observations made in 1957 is apposite to the discussion herein.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI feel that this age is not so much a new age but an age of transition between a state of society, a civilization that is obviously decaying and dying and a new society, whatever it \u00a0 <\/span>may be its final form, which will replace it. It is therefore essentially an age of transition, a formative age where a great responsibility rests upon all of us, of this generation to think clearly and correctly, in shaping that new civilization, whatever it may be its final form.\u2019<\/i><\/p>\n

The SLFP founders advise in confronting the dynamics of social and political transition cries out to be translated in to simple Sinhala and explained to the knob head cum dimwit\u00a0 <\/span>whom we mistakenly trusted on 8th<\/sup> January 2015 to deliver good governance.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

There is no doubt that President Sirisena was addressing a rational audience. His preposterously monstrous perversions of facts did not result in wild cheering.\u00a0<\/span>The lukewarm hurrahs and applause were limited to the front row and a few pockets of enthusiasts who were switched on and switched off with a mechanical precision. It was an orchestrated obfuscation of obvious reality.\u00a0 <\/span>It was a microcosm of the make-believe world that Maithripala Sirisena finds himself trapped in today.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The speech was not fascist. It was not neo-fascist either. It was breathtakingly proto-fascist. Make no mistake. I am not suggesting that Ranil Wickremesinghe<\/a><\/strong> is better than Maithripala \u00a0 <\/span>Sirisena. They are both villains but of different shades and in different forms.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

That said, we must in this current predicament, restore Ranil\u2019s premiership even for a day for the express, immediate and salutary purpose of rubbing Maithripala\u2019s snooty nose on the hard rock of public anger.<\/p>\n

Maithripala Sirisena in his speech betrayed his deep insecurity in adhering to democratic process and procedure.<\/p>\n

He insisted that all executive action he has taken since 26th<\/sup> October are lawful and constitutional. Who says so? He says so. He cares for the country and the nation. Ranil does not. He alone responds to the people while Ranil pleads at the doorsteps of foreign embassies.<\/p>\n

That is more than adequate grounds to sack Ranil and install Mahinda on the Prime ministerial saddle.\u00a0<\/span>He insisted that the same raison <\/i>d’\u00eatre that made him agree to be the common presidential candidate in opposition to Mahinda Rajapaksa<\/a><\/strong> on 21st<\/sup> November 2014 led him to make Mahinda the Prime Minster on 26th<\/sup> October 2018!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What was really surprising to me was that Dr. Sarath Amunugama whose mastery and grasp\u00a0 <\/span>of Weberian ethics of political responsibility is beyond question was applauding the mundane inanities of Sirisena the president with such gusto and \u00e9lan. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Now, that was a sorry spectacle that reminded the writer a passage by Theodore Adorno that exquisite exponent of the theoretical model of political thought and\u00a0 <\/span>critic of fascism in his brilliant observations\u00a0 <\/span>on what he calls \u2018Final Clarity.\u2019\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe newspaper obituary for a businessman once read: \u201cThe breadth of his conscience competed with the goodness of his heart.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

The lapse committed by the mourners in the rarefied, elevated language called for at such times, the involuntary admission that the kind-hearted deceased was devoid of a conscience, expedites the funeral procession on the shortest path to the land of truth. When a man of advanced age becomes famous for being especially benign, one can presume that his life represented a series of scandals.<\/i><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>He has gotten used to outrage. The broad conscience passes itself off as greatness of mind, which forgives everything, because it understands it all too well. A quid pro quo steps between one\u2019s own guilt and that of others, which is resolved in favor of whoever got the best of the deal. After such a long life, one just can\u2019t distinguish who did what to whom. In the abstract representation of universal injustice, every concrete responsibility collapse! \u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Our preeminent diplomat Jayantha Dhanapala<\/a><\/strong> who as a young undergraduate remembered SWRD\u2019s philosophical musings at the Peradeniya convocation in 1957 quoted those words in 2013 when he himself delivered a convocation address at the same venue.\u00a0<\/span>How come one undergraduate of 1957 at Peradeniya remembers them while another undergraduate of 1957 celebrates\u00a0 <\/span>Sirisena\u2019s ignorance of those same musings on\u00a0 <\/span>societal transition? The philosopher Theodore Adorno has explained.\u00a0<\/span>I apologize to my readers for the digression. Imperative of confronting charlatanry demanded it. Sorry. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It is not that I admire Dr. Sarath Amunugama less. It is a contemporary imperative to remind him and others like him that rise of fascism and democratic decay is the results of such elite failure.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Maithripala Sirisena\u2019s harangue is indicative of elite failure that can only result in reversing the one single achievement of the 8th<\/sup> January triumph of democratic renewal- the 19th<\/sup> Amendment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Already the repeal of the 19th<\/sup> Amendment<\/a><\/strong> has become the platform of the \u2018Pohottu’ Prime minster now restrained by a court order.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Fascism is the major political innovation of the 20th<\/sup> Century. The so called neo liberalism now practiced by Putin in Russia in the 21st<\/sup> century and Pinochet in Chile in the eighties of the 20th<\/sup> century are only offshoots of the parent ideology that is advocated by Gotabaya Rajapakse and now taken over by Maithripala Sirisena.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Maithripala\u2019s horrendous harangue to his captive cadres was classic fascist rhetoric. As an ideology, fascism draws its legitimacy from a mythic core of an ancient superiority and an immediate resurgence of a populist nationalism.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In these dangerous times we must revisit history and learn from history. The purpose of history is to instruct on past folly that dissuades us from repeating earlier madness. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Fascism was born in Milan Italy on a\u00a0 <\/span>quiet\u00a0 <\/span>Sunday morning of\u00a0 <\/span>March 23rd<\/sup> in 1919.\u00a0<\/span>A little more than hundred persons of whom there were eleven war veterans, pretended left wingers (Vasu types), intellectuals, plus some sympathetic journalists formed a political coalition like our \u2018viyath- maga\u2019 that declared war on those who championed socialism and opposed or resisted ultra-nationalism. Benito Mussolini called it Fasci di Combattimento, which roughly translates to ‘fraternities of combat’.<\/p>\n

Now Maithripala Sirisena has launched his fraternity of combat.\u00a0<\/span>He is combatting one ostensible enemy- one single man \u2013 Ranil Wickremesinghe.\u00a0<\/span>Should we be impressed with that hog wash?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Maithripala Sirisena is the best thing that happened to Ranil Wickremesinghe.\u00a0<\/span>I am all for reinstating Ranil Wickremesinghe for as long as it takes to rid the country of this current political obscenity parading as the revivalist of Bandaranaike doctrine of which he knows nothing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The once upon a time Marxist, Trotskyite Revolutionary Socialist and present-day populist Vasudeva Nanayakkara has described the interim order of the court of appeal as one without a match or a parallel in the history of either Sri Lanka or the world.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

That may well be true. It is doubt full whether any tribunal in modern democratic history has been called upon to determine whether an elected head of state is a jackal, a jackass or a hybrid of the two genres.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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