WGO’s should be clipped

Nalin de Silva

(Courtesy of Daily News)

It is difficult to convince the Western educated people in general that knowledge is relative and not absolute, and further that knowledge is relative to the five senses, mind and the culture. Even if one succeeds in doing so, it is almost impossible to convince them that knowledge arises due to our “avidya”, sometimes translated as ignorance.

The West has given us knowledge in various fields, and very often we are supposed to treat that as absolute. The knowledge that is prevailing in the world today, which is the hegemonic knowledge, is mainly what the West has created during the last five hundred years or so, and in the process they have absorbed knowledge of the Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Mediterranean people, the other Asians and various others.

However, this knowledge has been absorbed into the new Judaic Christian culture based on Greek Judaic Christian Chinthanaya, in opposition to the Catholic culture and the Catholic Chinthanaya of what is known to the present West as medieval Europe. The last five hundred years saw the emergence of the individual as against the community, and importance was given to the five senses. Only the sensory (five senses) perceptible knowledge was believed to be true though non sensory perceptible stories (pattapal boru – blatant lies) were used to explain sensory perceptible knowledge and more importantly emphasis was given to the pursuit of  the five senses. In more than one sense the western Judaic Christian culture is a culture dominated by the five senses.

Individual freedom             

Though the individual has been given prominence over the society or the community strong states have evolved during the last five hundred years and the Western states have the machinery to control the lives of the individual ironically under the pretext of individual freedom. It is this camouflage we are taught as democracy. The non European states are forced to follow an ideal democracy that is not found anywhere in the world, especially in the West. The freedom of expression of the individual is there in theory but not practiced in the West. The freedom of choice is there for the individual without the freedom to produce those from which the choice is made.

This is true in general, and the West only pretends to practice what they preach. For example there is no scientific method as such but we are told and we believe that the so called scientific method distinguishes Western science from other systems of knowledge that have existed to date among various cultures.

Western governments 

The scientists talk of only sensory perceptible knowledge as valid but use knowledge that is non sensory perceptible to “explain” sensory perceptible knowledge. They talk of statements arrived by deduction, ignoring that deduction is finally nothing but induction. The Western culture is the most hypocritical culture that has been created by human beings. The West with the knowledge they have created was able to colonize the world in a way that had not been seen before the fifteenth century, and the schools, the universities, media have been used to propagate the Western knowledge throughout the world.

Asian countries were given a very limited political freedom in the forties and the African countries were able to taste the “new freedom” in the sixties. However, no economic freedom was given, and knowledge wise the world has had no freedom at all. The so called Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs) were created in the sixties by the West in the African countries first as an experiment to evolve a worldwide network similar to the missionary network of the Western Christian world.

The NGOs were financed either directly or indirectly by the Western governments and their main function was the spreading of the Gospel truth according to the Western ideologists. It is wrong to call these organisations NGOs and the misnomer is not different from calling the mega powered states of the West as democratic states.

The so called NGOs are nothing but Western Governmental Organisations (WGOs) operating mainly in the non Western countries. The nomenclature NGO is in accordance with the hypocrite Western culture, which has been summarized above. The main function of the WGOs is to propagate the Western ideology including that of objective knowledge. In order to achieve their objective they attempt to reach the people by some welfare activities. The WGOs are present day missions with the vision and mission of maintaining the hegemony of Western ideologies and establishing Western friendly governments. The Western culture pretends as if the mission and the vision could be separated but when one goes through missions and visions as formulated by various institutions it is clear that the visions and missions could not be separated. It is no better than stating that the state can be separated from religion.

 Sinhala Buddhist culture

Culturally all the Western countries are Christian countries of various denominations, though they would proclaim hypocritically that they are secular. Most of the present day cultures are associated with religion, and one cannot get away from the observation that the Western countries are associated with some Christian denomination. However, the WGOs true to the Western hypocrisy, together with the other pundits who have been trained by Western education would want the non Western states to be secular.

The vision and mission of the WGOs is to make sure that Western friendly governments are established in the non Western countries. In this regard the West has evolved certain concepts such as right to protect the human rights undermining the sovereignty of the people.

Whether the concept of sovereignty was there in the earlier times or not people have valued the prospect of having their own state obviously with leaders who have been called kings very often at least from a certain date in history.

Freedom of speech 

We could say that it is a right of a group of people who have evolved their own states to protect the state whether one uses the term sovereignty or not. The Sinhala people had evolved not only a state but have enjoyed the status of a nation long before the West evolved its concepts of nation and nation state. This state and nation the Sinhalas have evolved is associated with Theravada Buddhism and the Sinhalas want to protect the Sinhala Buddhist culture that has been in existence at least from the days of Gemunu Raja.

The problem of building the nation does not arise in Sri Lanka as the Sinhala people have already built a nation. It is only a question of Tamils and Muslims joining the nation, while retaining their respective cultures.

The Tamil leaders prefer to run to Tamil Nadu whenever there is a so called problem thus giving the impression that the Tamils are not only against the Sinhala people, the nation and the culture, but have not cut the umbilical cord between the Tamils in Sri Lanka and the homeland in Tamil Nadu. The Muslims when confronted with so called problems would come out with the help that Sri Lanka receives from Muslim countries. The Muslims in general are first Muslims and then may be Sri Lankans.

The Sinhala people have no such connections whether they came from Bengal, Orissa, Maharashtra or any other place (they have not but are descendents of Yagu Kauranas (Yaksha) and others and mixed with Bengalis and others), and though the Buddhists may pay their respects to Dambadiva as the place of birth of Bududahama they have no other relationship with the present day India.

It is the Sinhala nation and Sinhala Buddhist culture under threat, and when the Chief Minister of the Northern Province complains to the Deputy President of South Africa it is clear that the sovereignty of the country is under attack.

The WGOs work against the state and the country, and in order to carry out their work for the Western countries that pay them, they hide behind Western concepts such as freedom of speech, not practiced in the West itself. The so called freedom of speech of an individual or an organisation is subordinate to the freedom of the state to maintain the sovereignty of the people, and this is practiced in the West though they pay homage to the “freedom of speech” of the individual. The freedom of speech in England is restricted to some speeches made on soap boxes in Hyde Park in London. Can those in England who write to Sri Lankan newspapers get their articles published that easily in national newspapers in England?

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