When people resort to such concocted
terminology as “average Pakistani”, “average Pakhtun”, “common man” etc. what
really they are supposing?
They suppose that the perceptions
of the people under discussion are important. To them these perceptions are
genuine and must be represented to make a pro-people discourse. Here they
forget that all beliefs are perceptions which mostly try to look into the world
in such a way that the same perceptions are validated. Hence, the whole belief
systems are defended here. The use of such terminologies belittles the works
and sacrifices of all great thinkers, activists and reformers of history who
stood against popular perceptions and beliefs.
This is indeed bad thinking. Such
bad thinking is inherent in the zeitgeist which is characterized by free-market
economy which shuns creativity and innovation against its very soul. This abhorrence
of radical thoughts, revolutionary fervor and all those ideas which tend to
deviate minds from capitalism, free-market economy, the garb of the so-called
neo-liberal states and the non-representative democracy is actually the cause
of miseries of billions of people across the world who have no human security,
no food, no drinking water, no health facilities, no education and no
empowerment to change the world around them.
And finally, when people say they
are representing the “common man”, “average Pakistani/Pakhtuns etc” they really
don’t consider themselves average or equal to these so-called common or average
people. Again bad thinking, if not hypocracy.
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