THE PUBLIC PLATFORM WAR WITHIN

THE PUBLIC PLATFORM

WAR WITHIN

 

 

By:-Misbaah Hashmi

Email: - misbahaalia2@gmail.com

 

 

Man is a beast who aspires to be God but Devil devastates all its lofty dreams to sustain at the self assumed Heavenly pedestal: By re-igniting the instinctive cruelty of the human species. The eternal reality is the story of man is: from "Sperm to worm; from lust to dust and from womb to tomb".

Man is proudly called a social animal. An animal conditioned and socialized by normative environment. Socialize through a cultural and civilizational system. The civilizational system has evolved through millions of year's collective intellectual, psychological and social process. This social process derives its legitimacy from higher, moral, philosophical and religious doctrines.

During the last four decades a systematic process has been put into operation which has mostly delicate and sensitive social fabric through the weapon of the intellectualization has led to a new paradigm shift. The new paradigm shift in our social milieu has created extremism. This extremism has unleashed a social chain reaction which has been crystallized in the form of societal intolerance. It has shattered emotional, psychological fabric and when the Devil dances through the magic power of it produces terrorism. The terrorism has consumed our synergy by killing around 70 thousand innocent Pakistanis and causing collateral damage to the tune of around 200 million US Dollars to our national economy.

The wars in our neighborhood in the late 70s were imported to play with the geostrategic entertainment to various sectors but this has recd havoc with a destiny of our wonderful motherland.

History is a testimony to the fact that outside wars ultimately capture the inner self of the common folk because to provide sustainable fodder to these wars poisonous and lethal philosophies and doctrines are the primary tools.

Who knew that the lethal doctrine of Professor Samuel Hammonton seminal work The Clashes of Civilization and Professor Francis Focohama's The End of History would instead of providing unipolar heg money would lead to a brutal and mutually destructive mindset at global, national and individual level. This foreign policy plank produced couple of regional wars in the Middle East which put the genie of religious, sectarian, cultural and civilizational genie out of the battle of moderation and tolerance.By wasting around 2 trillion US Dollars on these wars there are flames all around. It has opened new theatre of violence: - Iraq, Afghanistan, Sudan, Libya and Syria in particular and in all parts of the world in general.

If man is a social animal then it is imperative that the 4 decades old the method of madness which was adopted as a policy tool should be reversed and we must admit as a common human being that clashes of civilization was in fact clashes of ignorance.

This admission of our collective folis may pave the way to start the long troubled and painful journey to go back to the basics.

This may give a ray of folk to hope for ending the war within.

The Writer is an analyst of Art and Culture and contemporary affairs. She holds a Masters in English Literature. Currently, She is doing her Masters in English Literature/ (Linguistic) at Numl at Multan.