The Sunday Observer’s Caligula Castration Complex & The Hydra

By Thimibirivela Ranarala –AUGUST 11, 2018

The article “Enter Gota” by the ‘Political Editor’ of the Sunday Observer (hereafter PESO), whoever he/she may be, cruises the Roman circus, and finds Caligula a fitting forebear to the Rajapaksas who, it is concluded, endanger “the liberal project” of the ruling delusionaries.

A lover of empires, PESO insists, Caligula looted Rome’s treasury, expropriated the poor, and liquidated opposition, 2,000 long years ago. PESO finds him resonating strongly with the Rajapaksa term of office of 4 years past.

Does this esteemed editor even know that the myths about Caligula’s cruelty were meant to divert from the same Emperor who killed Jesus Christ, the one who also killed Caligula’s parents? Or that the ‘liberal’ project has its roots in English slavery and a master race?

Now English exorcists have long demanded demons to justify interference. And this Political Editor of the Sunday Observer, a paper still shaking off its colonial shackles, clearly feels it must supply the English their pound of demon.

In 1814, London’s parliament recorded “Our government of Ceylon has made a Proclamation detailing several murders done by people we say are subjects of the King of Kandy. This sort of Proclamation usually precedes a military strike.”

PESO obviously hasn’t read Professor Gananath Obeyesekere’s The Doomed King, which shows how faux such English details were.

Meanwhile Gotabaya Rajapaksa is not even crowned yet, and with the Hitler hit having hurtled long past its hoopla, PESO now peers up the toga of the Roman calendar.

One wonders if Colombo’s anglomaniacs will soon exhaust all ink in exorcising their rising pandemonia – all their devils.

PESO’s brutology of course does not recall the white men who almost emptied entire continents of original people. No Columbuses, John Smiths or Washingtons or Jacksons, Cartiers or MacDonalds, Tasmans or Cooks. No Brownriggs and Torringtons of England’s own torrid past in Lanka. And certainly taboo for PESOs are the Bushes, Blairs, Obamas and Clintons of present day megalomania.

Not knowing our own Yaka past, a deficiency that malignantly degenerates brain cells, such intellectuals feel that citing Greek and Roman history gives them intellectual bulk. They know more about Rome than Ruhuna. More about Caligula than Kegalla. So which Roman kleptocrat would PESO compare with another liberal appointee, Singaporu Arjuna?

PESO’s cankerous scriptures lack the needed perspective and history, and proportionality. The English-backed mass murderer of the 1980s in Lanka is happily elided over with much-adverted accusations of sporadic assassinations. Just like Lake House’s new found journo pals in New York who justify US imperialism, which kills millions and then lament one or two, just to wield their power to brainwash the great unwashed of this world.

But do they even really know Rome’s Caligula?

Apparently Caligula’s greatest crime was that he wished to move the capital of empire from Rome to Alexandria in Egypt. This eerily echoes the oft-repeated obsession that the bumpkins of Hambantota may one day dare take over from merchant-infested Colombo.

So why does Caligula still get bad press? Why has his pastel poison coursed red through the veins of this PESO to drip onto our precious white English pulp?

Deliriously loved by ordinary Romans, was Caligula the worst Emperor ever, as Emperors go? The demonization of Caligula took the heat off the murderers of Jesus Christ and Caligula’s parents, yes, the Emperor Tiberius! A whitewash that even ignores Caligula’s nephew, Nero, who played first fiddle while Rome burned, even as our present misleaders also pull and play strings while we all burn.

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