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Saturday, March 23, 2013

The Dogma of Average Pakhtun/Average Pakistani, Common Man


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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