Enter the Age of Rules
Earlier in the post, The Rise of State Aristocracy in Pakistan, the following was stated:
… “. . . the author thinks that humanity is entering a new Age of Rules, superseding the Age of Ideologies, and the present book (The Rise of State Aristocracy in Pakistan) derives its inspiration from the same enlightenment.”
Here is one article (written in May this year) where I tried to formulate this thesis of mine:
At the Confluence of Two Ages
Today humanity is standing at the confluence of two Ages. The one has tenaciously flown from the past, and is trying hard to persist through the present into the future. The other one also emerged in the past – not so distant, though. It seems strong and teeming with hope for the salvation of humanity, but is still unable to withstand the unceasing reincarnation of the symptomatically dying Age.
The dying Age manifests
Entertainment in Pakistan
Reflections on various things: Entertainment in Pakistan
… It was in 2003 that I was in Ankara (Turkey); one of the acquaintances put a question that dumbfounded me. He asked: what’s the people’s entertainment in Pakistan?
I had no immediate answer astonished me. I smiled and told him to let me think and find it.
I tried to imagine Pakistani people (and my family) back home and see what’s there they mostly entertain themselves with and said: They watch TV!
Now it’s 2012, and things haven’t improved a bit. The top most entertainment is still TV watching. Here for most of the citizens, social life, and out of home enjoying is almost non-existent. Music concerts, art exhibitions, and things like that are rare, and it is Ashrafiya, the elite classes who, it seems, have appropriated all such manifestations of higher level of aesthetic life!
I did dwell on that issue in
Pakistan – Tareekh Chali Ultay Pauoun
Please note: This post has been shifted to the Urdu Blog – Civil Pakistan. To see it, click the link below:
… Google and Pakistan’s Independence Day
Today, on Pakistan’s independence day, www.google.com – how beautifully www.google.com used the Pakistan’s Truck-Art! Fantastic!
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The Rise of State Aristocracy in Pakistan
This February Alternate Solutions Institute released my first Urdu book, The Rise of State Aristocracy in Pakistan (Pakistan Mein Riyasti Ashrafiya Ka Urooj). Here is a brief statement of what the book tries to discuss and formulate:
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Last year, Alternate Solutions Institute wanted to hold a series of seminars on the theme: Ashrafiya Ka Naheen, Sab Ka Paksitan (Not For Ashrafiya, Pakistan For Everyone).
So I thought of writing a 2-3 page explanation of the slogan. But the paper kept on expanding, and I let it, and tried to state the argument with as much detail as I could. In that sense, it’s not a planned book, rather an argument.
Here are some of the important points the book focuses on:
First, the book tries to argue that rule of this or that class, such as rule of the proletariat, puts one class in conflict with the other
First things first
That rulers and ruled are different.
… That means governments and their citizens are different.
That means ruling elites and the ordinary citizens are different.
That persons are good or bad by nature is irrelevant to Political Philosophy, or I think should be irrelevant to it; though it may have academic significance or relevance to other sciences.
That persons usually change as the circumstances incentivize or allow them to.
That means Pakistanis, or others in the “underdeveloped” and the “developed” world, are not bad by nature, and may change with time.
That they are all, the same human beings who want to live a just and peaceful life of their choice.
That knowing each other brings human beings closer – leaving behind the negative perceptions their governments / ruling elites through their unwise policies and ulterior motives, and ‘bad guy’ types, might have created about them.
Through this blog the
Philosophical and Psychological Beings
Most Pakistanis are psychological creatures.
Only a minority elevate themselves to a philosophical level, and a lot of them now and then relapse again into their psychological niche.
So we have very few philosophical beings in our midst.
And it is for the same reason that our society does not evolve intellectually.
7 September, 2022
Revised on 7 September, 2025…