And if We Don't Wake Up Right Away, We'll Die in Shame.

Late Mr Robert Mugabe hated white people so much that he destroyed most of them and the entire country by staging a useless revolution in Zimbabwe.

It was known as Rhodesia before, and tobacco was their main export and income.

I remember meeting some Rhodesian delegation at the Katunayake Airport who was in transit on their way to another country.

On departure, the flight manager gave me a packet of cigarettes and I refused to accept them.

First, it was unethical to accept anything in return for a service, and secondly, I was not a smoker.

Then he insisted on keeping it as a memento and I still remember what he said more than four decades ago, echoing in my ears.

"We grow tobacco and our packs are the only ones that have 30 cigarettes in each of them."

Yes, he was right. It had 30 cigarettes in it.

I did not keep it as a memento but gave it to someone addicted to smoking soon after they left the place.

Rhodesia became Zimbabwe after a stupid revolution, some whites left the country for good, farms were destroyed, and finally, the Zimbabwe dollar became so useless that they had to print One Hundred Trillion Dollar notes to keep up with hyperinflation due to corruption and economic mismanagement.

And finally, the so-called revolutionary leader had to flee the country and die in another country’s hospital.

The country never recovered after the savage rape, but now they have given up their own currency notes and turned to the United States Dollars for their daily transactions, something their leaders so despised.

A similar situation is in Venezuela too now.

It was once an oil-rich country, but another revolution, corruption, and economic mismanagement have brought them to its knees just like Zimbabwe.

Instead of Bolivars, people have now turned to the world's most trusted currency, the US Dollar, for their daily transactions.

Again, pure hatred, corruption, and mismanagement were to blame for their downfall too.

And we're not far behind Zimbabwe and Venezuela in terms of anti-white, anti-western sentiments, as well as, most importantly, corruption and economic incompetence.

The ingredients are different this time, but it's another surefire recipe for imminent calamity.

To stay in power and cover up their failures and levels of corruption, leaders spread hostility and misinformation to the masses.

Unless we get things straight, we'll be on our knees soon, and we'll be compelled to utilize foreign currency notes instead of Sri Lankan rupees for our daily operations.

And if we don't wake up right away, we'll die in shame.