We the people and change

Discussing Corruption,  personal failings, Hareem Shah & now a boot (by Faisal Wada) is our total political culture. Politicians pull antics and anchors get ratings because people love this kind of nonsense. This is what has become of us. This is our total political, mental and intellectual worth. This is what we are. We the people crave for worthless stuff. We the people complete this vicious circle. In bigger picture, politicians and presstitudes (media) are nothing without people. People elect politicians and people follow presstitudes. 

Any creative work is art. Art reflects a nation's character. There must be great creative minds around but artistic waste has taken their place. Quality of thought in dramas has taken a nose dive with common subjects of betrayal, living together without nikah, extra marital affairs and lately (to my horror) drag queens taking center stage in dog pooh like 'Tum Meray Pas Ho', 'Ishq Mamnoa'. Worst part is that these are popular dramas. Dozen odd writers, two dozen media houses and couple of hundred actors and actresses in Karachi are trying to shape the society with their twisted minds and extremist liberal agenda. But we can't blame those commercial artist who want to make quick money whichever way possible. 

Again, it all sells because we the people love it. So, we the people may keep pointing finger on everyone else but we the people are responsible for whatever happens to us. Most unfortunate part is that we the people are not willing to affect change in anything in our powers and we wish everyone else and everything else around us to change. Nothing that brings us out of comfort zone will be implemented including tax paying, traffic rules, tidying up public places and the list goes on. Yet, we continuously blame everyone directly or indirectly involved in bringing us to this point from Muhammad Bin Qasim to Mughals and from Muhammad Ali Jinnah to Imran Khan and everyone in between them. Likewise, its so easy to fix blame on institutions alone including army, judiciary, executive and legislature completely ignoring the fact that institutions also consist of we the people. We don't for a second pause and think what have we done to bring about any change? Even the basic unit of socety i.e. a household is not in order. Values are not economically driven but we keep blaming poor financials of a household for all its woes because economics has become the new set of values.

So every which way we look at it, we the people are responsible for whatever has happened to us or is happening to us. The amount of change we aspire for is directly proportional and totally dependent on the amount of change we are able to bring about in our lives breaking the barriers of personal and collective comfort.

Process of change begins with a thought and above are enough thoughts for a working Thursday. 

Only Allah knows the whole Truth.