Mahinda, Ranil and the big picture

Monday, 26 March 2018

There is an ancient Chinese saying about missing the big picture by focusing on the trivial. This is about the big picture.

The Mahinda Rajapaksa phenomenon is not unique. In human history such men have existed. The French Political Philosopher Étienne de La Boétie spent a lifetime studying tyrants of the type of Mahinda Rajapaksa. Tyrants whose tyranny was with popular consent. He produced the classic- ‘Politics of Obedience: The discourse of voluntary servitude.’

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