The Decline of Individualism in Pakistan: A Silent Crisis
Any system that attempts to govern people fears an individual who is going his own way.
Any system that attempts to govern people fears an individual who is going his own way.
Modern women have accomplished their feminist rights; they possess equal opportunities as men. They can run companies, sit in parliaments, head universities, be CEOs, scientists, and innovators, but still, they are exhausted. It is due to the illusion of freedom that has just expanded the vocabulary to open new doors of opportunities but has not erased the anxieties.
Morality goes hand in hand with empathy. If you imagine the worst about other people, you can justify nearly any awful behavior; if you try to understand other people’s motivations, it becomes easier to summon kindness and generosity.
Colonial powers deployed linguistic imperialism as a subtle yet insidious apparatus to dismantle native epistemologies and impose hegemonic narratives.
War might be inevitable in society because conflicting interests and ideologies keep it ignited, but it can be minimized, even entirely prevented, by the role of institutions, trade, cooperation, literacy, and media.
The real strength of a society does not reside in its weapons, but in its words; not in its armies, but in its assemblies. The ballot box is hope, choice, and the shared dream of a better tomorrow. It is, in fact, much stronger than the bullet, for while bullets kill, ballots build.