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Thiranjala Weerasinghe sj.- One Island Two Nations
?????????????????????????????????????????????????Saturday, May 27, 2017
Commission & Catastrophe Nexus: Proposal To Constitutionalise 10% Commission For Politicians
If
the present writer is to begin this text with its end, what is being
suggested hereby is to legally validate a small margin of ten percent
commission from the financial profits of Companies, which are entrusted
to execute Government projects, in favor of politicians. At the first
glance, it seems an ugly, unacceptable, imponderable of and unethical
proposal, which should actually be cursed by God.
The proposal being furnished here is not what is really right. It is not
wished by the present writer even in a dream. Yet, what is important is
the final result. The Asian context has proved beyond doubt that no
politician or a bureaucrat can be hundred percent ethical. Yet, the
ethicality may constitute a lesser degree below hundred percent. In a
manner of speaking, it can be stated that even the Wisdom Teacher like
Buddha has failed in generating hundred percent ethicality in the
absolute majority of people. Thus, the non-ethical greed is an inborn
psychological trait of all unenlightened lay-men. Whether we like or
hate it, it has to be rightly dealt with. It, the proposal, has to be
read, understood and expounded, not fragmentally and not in isolated
parts, but as a whole, in the intensity of its integrity. The fragmented
comprehension would be conducive to misinterpretation, misapprehension,
misrepresentation and misinformation.
This is a dangerous proposal. No one in Sri Lanka has ever dared to
proclaim this proposal, though everyone talks about its validity
clandestinely in dark corridors. Truth is not a lie. The proposal roots
its basis in the inherent nature and in the inborn psychological traits
of man, who has not gone from home to homelessness and who is not
spiritually enlightened.
The practice and the life have empirically corroborated the fact that
the absence of the legal validity of this proposal has smartly trapped
many Asian countries in to the community-prosperity zero, totally
ruining the nations and their posterity to come.
Positive Justifications
A politician devotes his whole life to politics. His monthly income is
not really sufficient to manage personal family affairs, along with the
cost to be incurred in the domain of politics. With his exit from
politics, no one cares him and bothers about him, unless his name adds
power to vote bank of the party. While being engaged in politics, his
wife and children are, for the most part, neglected and the home
atmosphere is pressurized. Hence, in the society, while being a proud
and respected leader, at the home front, he becomes a coward husband and
a disrespected father. The time and the life, a politician could devote
for the wellbeing, wealth and prosperity of the family, is dedicated to
politics, which renders the family in to destitution, unless indeed
empirically engaged in corruption clandestinely. The engagement in
pragmatic politics would deprive the wife, of husband’s love and bereave
children, of their fatherly affection. There are much more to be said.
This is the relativity of the positivity of proposal-negativity.
Negative Justifications
Buddha has successfully failed in ethicalizing the world and in
dispelling the evil from the world. Jesus Christ, the Son of God
Himself, when descended down to earth, in order to sacrifice himself by
way of crucifixion, for the salvation of humanity from the original sin
of Adam and Eve, was insulted, spat upon, burdened with the cross, and
dragged along to the venue of nailing and killed. The greed continues.
The hate dominates. The delusion pervades. Hence, the man is selfishly
self-centered. Then, the law too has failed successfully. Why? The law
makers are not a spiritually enlightened community. Their minds are
trapped in greed, girded with hatred and defiled by delusion. If the
Buddha and Christ, worshipped universally by billions of people daily,
have failed, what to say about law, written by psycho-physical souls,
deposited with overflowing greed, hatred and delusion?