There was one thing I noticed while driving through the streets of San Francisco and while flying over London; The Uniformity. Of everything. I guess after being used to crooked street lights and the well ‘less than perfect’ world of Colombo and the rest of Lanka, this was a welcome change. It was however quite boring after a while. The same design: from the placing of the window to the placement of the chimneys. I suppose uniformity is a key element in the process of development and it’s a definitely a step Sri Lanka has yet to climb. Without sounding like a cynical bitch, I think I can say that Lanka’s still in one of the first few rungs on the ladder of development.
In San Fran, I happened to be fortunate enough to be enlightened by the ideas of a Mr. Dias. This gentleman had a systematic ‘process’ and an eventual ‘solution’ to the current ethnic crisis Mother Lanka’s facing at the moment. Here I found seeds of ideas I was surprised no one had happened to come across before. The simplicity of the idea was what I found amazing. It was one of those plans that focused on simple education, and not complete annihilation. I mean let’s face it, for lack of a better idea, most of us are now like ‘Ya what the heck, let’s just get rid of the damn LTTE….smoke ‘em outta there if we must…damn karadare this war is.’ It’s either that mentality or the ‘I don’t give a damn about what happens…I’m desensitized’ or ‘I’m leaving this country …so it doesn’t really affect me anyway.’ Please feel free to correct me if I’m wrong, but most of the people I’ve met share similar mentalities. People who really give a damn either forget that they give a damn (cos no one else gives a damn) or, they’re sucked into the vicious cycle of power and corruption which is soo much more comfortable than fighting the authority.
Excuse me for starting at one point and then deviating. I’m after an 11 hour flight and I’ve been in transit for a good 4 hours as well. Most of these ideas are completely random and sometimes will fail to make sense.
To be continued…..
