“In such situations the pen is a mighty weapon. Now we have the Internet to which the access is much wider and this appeals to many people, much more than what the pen has done through the ages. Communication has virtually become a universal gobble and cackle and far too many irresponsible people feel that they have the power to dominate others through the Internet. This is not communication in its ideal form; this is a brutal weapon of domination.”
by Victor Karunairajan
(August 22, Toronto, Sri Lanka Guardian) Penmanship is a sacred art and good writers are focused on giving their best to the community. Depending on their interests, and talents and skills for communication, they are able to inform, educate and inspire their readers in the various fields of human activities. They are an essential essence of human progress.
But we do come across people who use the pen to promote their ego and even indulge in the scurrilous and the slanderous. Such types even when their ego is egg-smashed do not know to get off their self-structured pedestals. They cling on to them. They cannot accept that they have been proved wrong and often that is when they turn awkward and vicious.
Sometimes they build their entire case on faulty premises or imagined grounds and try pummeling their ways through to whatever they want to achieve. Far too frequently such are disastrous to stable communities because their aims lack the common good. More so because they have their own agendas to serve their own selfish ends or that of their clan.
This is also where violence is generated, not just the violence of language but they resort to the emotional and the physical.
Writing is an art; at its best when it is cultured, refined and dignified. This is something that takes ages to develop and the love of this particular skill to communicate the positives. The pen is the point of their personality, clean, sharp and its message positively meaningful.
In order to ensure this, the pen must be in the hands of a mind that intends the good. Achieving the good may at times mean confronting a great deal of challenges; they may even involve scouring the dirt determined at clean up or taking a stand against injustice, corruption and other evils that affect any community. Wider the cancer more extensive will be the surgery.
In such situations the pen is a mighty weapon. Now we have the Internet to which the access is much wider and this appeals to many people, much more than what the pen has done through the ages. Communication has virtually become a universal gobble and cackle and far too many irresponsible people feel that they have the power to dominate others through the Internet. This is not communication in its ideal form; this is a brutal weapon of domination.
They also let lose a lot of gossips on issues without probing or research; just let go their fancies into cyberspace. What was confined to inter-fence tittle-tattle becomes inter-continental ballistic missiles of idiosyncrasies; at worst rabble-rousing and hate-mongering.
In other words they become weird electronic gossips where one can get away even with murder.
In a recent issue concerning his school, church and community, this writer has been at the receiving end of downright slander because his views are not what a certain party wishes. The result is slander aimed at discrediting his views and even heap on him whatever the slanderer wishes as advantageous to him.
Technically legal options for remedy are available but at what cost and the time factor too counts. Such are the ways courts act, they prove the adage that justice delayed is justice denied.
Furthermore no good man will descend to the level of the abuser and slanderer. So in the immediate circumstance, justice certainly hesitates to prevail. But one can be sure it will be; eventually the mist that gets evaporated is collected in the heavens and then comes down heavily on those who have parched out all decencies.
This is my point of view and specially with an expression of gratitude to Sri Lanka Guardian to have referred in clear terms to a particular attack on my integrity and warn the abuser to desist from such an activity. This person has used his access to the Internet not only to attack me but also his alma mater Jaffna College.
- Sri Lanka Guardian
by Victor Karunairajan
(August 22, Toronto, Sri Lanka Guardian) Penmanship is a sacred art and good writers are focused on giving their best to the community. Depending on their interests, and talents and skills for communication, they are able to inform, educate and inspire their readers in the various fields of human activities. They are an essential essence of human progress.
But we do come across people who use the pen to promote their ego and even indulge in the scurrilous and the slanderous. Such types even when their ego is egg-smashed do not know to get off their self-structured pedestals. They cling on to them. They cannot accept that they have been proved wrong and often that is when they turn awkward and vicious.
Sometimes they build their entire case on faulty premises or imagined grounds and try pummeling their ways through to whatever they want to achieve. Far too frequently such are disastrous to stable communities because their aims lack the common good. More so because they have their own agendas to serve their own selfish ends or that of their clan.
This is also where violence is generated, not just the violence of language but they resort to the emotional and the physical.
Writing is an art; at its best when it is cultured, refined and dignified. This is something that takes ages to develop and the love of this particular skill to communicate the positives. The pen is the point of their personality, clean, sharp and its message positively meaningful.
In order to ensure this, the pen must be in the hands of a mind that intends the good. Achieving the good may at times mean confronting a great deal of challenges; they may even involve scouring the dirt determined at clean up or taking a stand against injustice, corruption and other evils that affect any community. Wider the cancer more extensive will be the surgery.
In such situations the pen is a mighty weapon. Now we have the Internet to which the access is much wider and this appeals to many people, much more than what the pen has done through the ages. Communication has virtually become a universal gobble and cackle and far too many irresponsible people feel that they have the power to dominate others through the Internet. This is not communication in its ideal form; this is a brutal weapon of domination.
They also let lose a lot of gossips on issues without probing or research; just let go their fancies into cyberspace. What was confined to inter-fence tittle-tattle becomes inter-continental ballistic missiles of idiosyncrasies; at worst rabble-rousing and hate-mongering.
In other words they become weird electronic gossips where one can get away even with murder.
In a recent issue concerning his school, church and community, this writer has been at the receiving end of downright slander because his views are not what a certain party wishes. The result is slander aimed at discrediting his views and even heap on him whatever the slanderer wishes as advantageous to him.
Technically legal options for remedy are available but at what cost and the time factor too counts. Such are the ways courts act, they prove the adage that justice delayed is justice denied.
Furthermore no good man will descend to the level of the abuser and slanderer. So in the immediate circumstance, justice certainly hesitates to prevail. But one can be sure it will be; eventually the mist that gets evaporated is collected in the heavens and then comes down heavily on those who have parched out all decencies.
This is my point of view and specially with an expression of gratitude to Sri Lanka Guardian to have referred in clear terms to a particular attack on my integrity and warn the abuser to desist from such an activity. This person has used his access to the Internet not only to attack me but also his alma mater Jaffna College.
- Sri Lanka Guardian
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