My last 5 blog entries should have given
the reader an insight into the direction I am coming from for the purposes of
drawing up a Constitution that WILL STAND THE TEST OF TIME.
There is no chance on this earth, that
the proposals, and backward thinking legislators can even think of a Sri Lanka,
that can be prosperous and disciplined, as they have NO intention of making it
there, because their own selfish interests would then become unattainable.
It is with that simple basic point, that
I propose that the whole constitutions vision comes from people who will have
to live during its term, and not of those who will definitely be dead fairly
shortly! Isn’t that a rational statement for starters?
In the debates I have recently had on
this topic, I am told that our Youth are incapable of this vision, but I say,
if not they, then who? I broadly agree that the fault of the Education system
means we are at a loss to find good people, from amongst the ranks, especially
from people in remote communities whose interests, the new CONSTITUTION MUST
PROTECT. I however believe there are intelligent people, who can be coerced to
give their view of the world, if they are egged on by visionary youth from
privileged backgrounds who are dime a dozen in Colombo, the types who will get
into Harvard or Oxford, with their eyes closed because of their whole world
seeing background and all round experience, something very few of those in the
current Wijenayake committee have and those who do, have had it too far in
history to be of benefit in the new age of Digital Processed minds, brought up
on FB and twitter and the like!
UNLESS this is done as a matter of priority
and their suggestions are taken seriously the old dodderers or fools, will come
up with ideas only they can understand and drop suggestions like mine as “pie in
the sky”. Get real, you guys are the ones who are NOT in the real world and the
twenty something’s are part of the real world.
We are talking about the possibility of a
Country being on the top rung of the world (a favorable cross between Bhutan and
Singapore if you could even imagine that possibility) or a failed state of incompetent
buffoons pandering to more buffoons, with all the competents seeking greener pastures
in other paradises, taking all the positive energy created with them. This is a
very real possibility if we don’t go in a different direction in Constitution making.
Time for a wake-up call, to reconstitute
this committee with young blood!
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