kitten corner: sri lanka
is this all going according to plan?
i am just a kitten, so please forgive me if this is an obvious question to which everyone knows the answer and i do not, but was “fleeing the country while they set the presidential palace on fire” a part of this strategy?
because if it was, this might have actually been a pretty good plan.
“It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.”
- G.K. Chesterton
Sri Lankans are proving once again that “The power of the people is stronger than the people in power!” ✊🖕🙌
Once again, I return to my beloved Étienne de La Boétie quote from my second essay (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/covid-is-over-if-you-want-it):
“You can deliver yourselves if you try, not by taking action, but merely by willing to be free. Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break into pieces.”
—Étienne de La Boétie, “The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude”