Who wants tribalism?
After denying a right to talk about Sri Lanka to expats, professor Fonseka brands them as tribal minded. This is again a modernist peeping at primitive societies. Democratic capitalism or brutal capitalism is tribalism but modernists cannot see it just like the “eye cannot see the eye.” All humans are tribal minded. The dictionary meaning of it is “strong loyalty to one’s own tribe, party, or group; strong feeling of identity with and loyalty to one’s tribe or group.” The word was first used during 1885-90. Empire-building, the scramble for Africa, the subjugation of the Native Americans in America all used tribalism as a scapegoat. A Judea-Christian mind set wanted to civilize the primitive tribes and barbarians. The universe functions like a great mechanical clock and secrets of nature are all there for the scientists to uncover tried to make the white man above all other living things and the ruler of nature. One could say the Pasmaha Balum mentioned in Buddhist literature (time, co
