State of Mindlessness

WARNING AND DISCLAIMER:

READ THE FOLLOWING AT YOUR OWN RISK. THE SUBSEQUENT DOMAINS DO NOT SUBSCRIBE TO THE VIEWS OF THE AUTHORESS IN PART OR IN FULL. CONTENT IS SERIOUSLY ANTI-ESTABLISHMENT! OPINIONS CITED BELOW ARE HIGHLY PERSONAL, HIGHLY CHARGED AND SWING SPORADICALLY BETWEEN SANE AND SERIOUSLY LUCID ARGUMENTS TO DEGENERATION AND DISCOMBOBULATION INTO THE RAVINGS OF A STARK, RAVING LUNATIC!

I have got back out of bed and it ain’t even 6a.m. It is worth a tirade on its own that the prospect of undisturbed slumber remains just that, a prospect like the unattained dreams and ambitions of some day waking up to find that we are witness to the miracle of rulers who actually do sacrifice their country for personal gain. Oh wait… we already have those! Ah bliss!

I digress! Unfortunately, sleep strays away refusing to come sing me a lullaby. The unrivalled pleasure of sleeping in on Sundays compromised because the dickheads in charge take it upon themselves to wield their testosterone charged toys and go rampaging around the country side in search of villains to draw out, quarter, annihilate and basically drown in pools of their own blood. When did life come to resemble the video games of the good versus evil genre where evil has the guns and the fire power and somehow manages to triumph over the good guy who is basically hung out to dry for speaking the truth? Okay, so that’s a little far fetched but I’m disturbed so if you don’t like what you’re reading, close this browser window now.

So, did you know we were living in a democracy? And we were living in a land of pak and pure where righteousness rules and people go about their businesses singing tra-la-la-la without any fear for their lives, their faith or their livelihood? It’s true! It’s true! How dare you make that face at me…! Bloody everyone’s a critic! I’ll prove it!

We have a Chief of Army Staff as President who will, God living remember to serve us by serving himself and staying in power, and in uniform and in bloody any guise he wants for all time to come because he CAN… At least that is the plan… Provided the higher authorities ala US of Assholes and Unpleasant Kingdom come decide that it is time the general was carried out by a highly skilled team of four!

We have a banker for a Prime minister and an economist as the head of our State Bank and are headed towards Utopia where every man will Rs. One million in single notes to spray around as confetti or use in a ticker tape parade to line the streets to welcome other high flying, leading unabashed lives of luxury individuals to into the capital city located a few thousand light years away from the country. Imagine the stench please if the capital had been anywhere IN the country itself… Phew! Gag! Yuck!

Here we are ruled by people so entrenched in the tradition of servicing the poor, and safe guarding their lives that they perform feats of great courage and zeal by ensuring that people do not have to deal with the task of living. They do this by placing barricades and routes on roadways of entire cities, cordoning off people on their way to work, school or even ambulances that may be taking people who are struggling to die. By taking such severe measures to suffer the indignity and the risks of traveling roads unencumbered by traffic, cars and people, they serve to ease their people’s way into death. Where else would you find this?

We are rational, sensible and enlightenedly moderated who have the unquestioned skill of memorizing 2… no make that 5 WHOLE postulates of our religion… (5 man! It boggles the mind!) Then take to the streets, assemblies and every intersection we wish where we make a show of waving our arms, and fists and beards and kullas and dastaars and burqas and abayas screaming about how un-Islamic the entire world is except self righteous, misunderstood us and then proceed to turn on our well oiled heels which are rounded with practice to go stand by those we call infidels and opposition and blah blah and yada yada yada! Well of course, they only switch places to show us poor, color blind, seriously retarded people the difference between their white and the infidels’ black souls. (Slapping forehead because of the in your face kind of truth of the phenomenon!)

Here are we who are so democratic and with such a burnished sense of justice that when an army personnel is accused of rape, the president of the state with all candid truth and faith and a high sense of morality will go on the record in support of the personnel and all this even before the fact finding commission is in place. Where else would you find such stalwart sterling examples of unencumbered innocent until proven guilty display to the extent that the woman in question’s life is threatened and she is whisked far and away in a big flying machine into the sky?

Imagine if you will a land blessed by natural resources covered in rugged mountain and sand inhabited by wild beings that have no sense of affiliation, tradition and worse of all, no respect for a military uniform! How can you presume that they will be allowed to prosper, to live in this land ruled by a velveteen fist and everyone is game? They are a threat, a danger to all that is sane and sacred and all that we hold dear including our dear president and our poor, underprivileged, seriously taxed armed forces. They live on our land and presume to ask us, the high and mighty overlord of all we see and beyond, including all that you have and don’t you forget it, to pay for any shit that we draw out of their ground. Oh please! Why can’t they see that they’ll suffocate to death if that gas is allowed to remain there… stupid people!

Can’t they see the huge structure of the port that is going to be pinnacle of social and economic growth that we are establishing at their doorstep and see the potential for employment and development for their people? No, they are concerned about ‘foreigners’ moving in and ensuring that they are kept out. Wonder why they would do that? It’s not like we the government have ever done anything like that before… selling of prime estate and opportunities to the highest bidder in return for a tidy little sum in our back pocket by showing it to be part of our own personal back yard… And the Steel mill thing was just a confusion! Of course it cannot be compared to the Gawadar port. Such cynics the lot of you! Honestly! Have some faith!

Oh hey, you know! We should make a plan to go hunting soon. It’s open season EVERYWHERE and all kinds of game too! No, you ignoramuses! I’m not talking about hunting deer or buck or duck. Those are so cute and occasionally cuddly too. I’m talking about the dumb human animals. And the amazing thing is that we can use government infrastructure and military support to be our seconds. Machine guns, light missiles… hell that’s going to notice if we send in a fighter plane or two! We’ve extended that favor to our resident neighbors in the West and South Westish. After all, our faith says that our neighbors have rights on us and up to 40 households to the East, the West, the North and South fall into that category and if in return we get some carcasses to parade around as insurgents, terrorists, rebels and all together less than living breathing human beings, well, that’s just a bonus.

Has anyone figured out yet that I am kind of pissed? In fact am so pissed that I don’t know what to say! Huge accomplishment that, the government and armed forces of my great homeland has managed that which no other event or being in the world could ever think of attaining which is seriously worrying me to the point that I am babbling incoherently. I mean, now what!

Big hurray! You’ve killed off an 80 year old man with his kin in a dark, dreary cave somewhere in one-to-one combat with the use of artillery and Special Forces. Bring out the fireworks, the balloons, and let the celebrations begin! Technically there’s no difference between what the United States is doing in the rest of the world and what our government is doing here. Weeding out elements that seem to have some kind of a voice and making an example of them to ensure that everybody else goes deaf and mute. Except one! The US is at least doing it in other people’s yards and not making a mess of their own carefully laid out gardens and play area. At our end, the caretaker is seriously committed to turning potential land into land fills, all for the sake of pacifying Big Daddy enough to allow things to go on as they are and reduce chances for the moment of US planes doing their target practice this side of the fence… Oh wait! They do that too! So that would mean that the sacrifice fest on in our backyard is to ensure that Big Daddy don’t come calling to make Mushie-Wushie (that rhymes with Bushie-Wushie) go bye-bye uniform, medals and all…

Great! Now I’m upset and I’m hungry! I knew something like this would come along to flush my diet down the drain! I so need a cheese omelet to calm my poor, frazzled nerves… Will return to rant and rave some more… After the break!