This discussion was happened in the month of December, with one of my friend, a Belgian, who came to see me to Sri Lanka, He is a social Social Anthropologist and now he is engaged in a Ph.D.
At that particular time we were having tea after a very tiring day.
We had a discussion on different topics. We didn't need any topic to argue, but being belong to two continents was enough for us to argue on several things. Previous night i was beaten with the issues of why we should have peace talks with LTTE with the Norwegian Facilitator. With his background it was the only option he believed as the solution and i got hurt since he didn't really accepted the way of the Sri Lankan thinking.
When we are having the tea we had a comparison of each others salaries. But finally he started saying how the system in the Belgium is working when it come to the sick leaves.
He said " When it comes to a few days leave the first day salary is paid by the employer and for the rest of the days it is the government who is paying the salary."
Then i asked how the Government is having money to pay a salary for the sick leave.
"It is by the taxes that we pay", he replied.
With the typical Sri Lankan mentality i told him that if you can have more and more sick leaves then you will get the maximum benefit of the taxes that he would pay.
He looked at me like that I'm going to screw him, and he said the whole system would collapse then and people are not going to make it happen.
I remember that he told me that the three nations there in Belgium who are Flemish, Germans and the French are going to form separate boundaries for them selves and the Flanders are going to have a sovereignty and a separate country.
Then i got a point and asked him in such a situation what would you select, the system which is providing everything to you, or the county as you love your country. He said that he would select the system instead of the country and accept the separation and the division of the land.
And my next question was
"Is this is the way every European would think?", because everyone is having so called developed systems. He reply was "yes". Then i just told him we do not have a system but we have a country to which we are bound to. He nodded.
What i was thinking then was why we are fighting for the boundaries, and can a foreign mind judge how we feel as Sri Lankans, definitely not. Then should we have a system, which makes everything mechanical.
Why don't we think that we are more developed with our hearts than in a physical way. We are happy and thousand times better than the way they behave in social matters.
We are human care for each other. When a new person comes to work with us he is not treated as a human replacement to a mechanism which is the physical aspect of a relationship, but we are trying to create friendship, a metaphysical connection with him. After all we are suffering because we are not organized.Sometimes we are getting the bad effect of such relationships.
Anyway still I'm confused what would i select, THE COUNTY or THE SYSTEM.
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What stands must falls; it is what moved on that stays
– vira siva vasana by Basavanna [tenth century Indian poet]
First of all I must appreciate the task of suresh, in terms of creating a podium for a discussion which is lack in the current state of the country. People are force to believe and meant to be with the middle stream with out having any objection or questioning.
I, my self hardly accepted his way of thinking according to his principles; eventually this would be a critical analysis to his article.
What is a system, is it a kind of constitution, set of rules or set of morals. It’s important to get resolve before into a deep conversation.
At the beginning of each civilization each group of people able to respect set of morals which finally lay down into a constitution at the later stage of their practice. We have already passed more than 5000 years of history of mankind which depicts in literary. We experienced imperialism, communism and now in a period of liberalism which is classified in different states according to the each country. Countries which are in liberalized having its own system to govern their territorial boundary. India, America and European region are having a system to govern, but may be in different state or name.
Are we having any proper system to follow? Every government try to stand a set of election promises which are emotionally attach to the community. We are not having any national policy or system to govern and what we having is set of promises although they are not morally accepted except their followers. This is seen in every scheme such as education, industry, transportation, communication …….. . This was not happened within fortnight. It took nearly three decades to get mold. Unfortunately as Sri Lankan we were not aware of the process of globalization. If we were alarmed during that period, we may safe and able to stand on our feet’s with true democracy.
This is not only happened to our country. It’s viable in most of developing countries as nature. What makes us to this state? , how we can stand with out these bond? Are we having a bright sky tomorrow? I would like to raise them to u and‘ll come with suggestion in next.
Personally I believe we are having a bright sky with lovely sunshine. But its takes time to get away with these dark clouds. Venezuela and Iran are best example to study. [I may not take examples from china and Cuba, because they are already with in the past generation as guiding stars. let’s make our country developed, but it’s essential to change the direction.
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