Mirza Shahnawaz Agha
WAITING in line for the journey back home after an unplanned visit to planet earth! No tickets, no advance bookings and certainly no preferred seating! That is the long and short of the this journey we refer to as life! Interesting destination this place called earth, and highly recommended for legionnaires, adventure seekers and loafers. Just like we got here we are awaiting our exit and no holds barred, it will be abrupt! Nothing in this journey was by consent and nothing in our return will be by consent either! It is the stay here that has to historically be reflected upon for travel log and survival. Although it is a secular journey, but we find upon arrival a lot many, like ourselves who arrived earlier and others who are awaiting the incumbent return. While we meet lot around us, we quickly realise that we need them all, to survive, enjoy and sustain the journey.
Simply on our own we would be responsible to swiftly end our expedition to our detriment. We also realise that the cycle of survival is primed by connectivity, one with the other, and the energy connecting this chain is called love. We need to stick together selflessly and sharing this energy of love keep obliging all in the support chain of survival. Interesting terms of reference for the journey, adequately communicated both orally and in writing. This is the fate accompli of the journey and negotiating terms, with who ever got us into this, is casually referred to as an occult science or spirituality or whoever knows what else! This is of course an uncommon domain. Tight rope walking as it seems though, this journey of life is described by the Quran as ‘only a sport and a pastime’! The one thing that is a given for the journey however, is love and sharing as the baggage essential!
Looking around we find that in denial of this energy of love that supports the survival chain we also have an opposing force. In essence it can be described as meanness, or selfishness, or greed but it is the mother of an energy called hate! Surprised that such an impractical emotion should exist, soils the pleasures of this expeditious journey. Evidently some of those around want more out of the equal share of the commonwealth of nature than is due to them and therefore strive to deprive others. Ironically that is the nature of the beast proverbially, from us the lot, of travellers awaiting our return home. Comical, rudimentary and insane, yet that is where we are and that is what we are to reckon with, whilst around! The struggle in this journey of joy as peddled by the tour operator, is therefore a constant battle to ward off the greedy, the selfish, the mean. Basically the ethos of justice as it ought to be is the cornerstone of peaceful existence. This factor of invokeable justice is the yardstick to determine the wellbeing of individuals and their cluster called societies.
The fundamental need in the management of societies is the establishment of an invocable just order, based on the rights of the destination we are visiting and the rights of our own kind. This implies ecological laws and personal laws. Do not destroy, scavenger or try and alter the laws of nature at your destination and in the same stride do not usurp the rights of co-travellers! This being the principal obligation for each one of us, is clearly not being heeded to. Since justice cannot be invoked with civility we see force in the form of wars and other heinous crimes. While the greedy lot, amongst us travellers go about their business of robbing pillaging fighting with all tools possible the majority scums to oppression in their simplicity and status of being no more than travellers. Wars are often used as an handy alibi by the greedy as an act of force to establish the higher objectives of justice and that is again the ultimate form of deception. This is and has been the history of our individual and collective expedition to planet earth. Our existence and the outcome is certainly vague and oblivious. Should this destination become a battle ground or should it remain a bed of roses proverbially, for us to savour from, is the question mankind has philosophised over centuries only to disagree!
In the context of a rat race between the aspirants for economic global leadership, (a concept in denial of equitable sharing), we in the periphery of action seem to be gasping for breath. Any diverse route to suggest alternatives are swiftly and conveniently consigned to a ‘leftist’ or ‘rightist’ mould with the media gagging any judicious third recipe. In this global heist planned as way back as 1774 the stratagem has been monetary control through a single medium of exchange, the regulation of which will guarantee permanent slavery of the entire population of the earth to one God of money. While it has been an ambitious plan and largely implemented through the ages to date one can see the flaws in the plan because ‘global consumption’ has outpaced ‘global production’ leaving the printed or digital medium of exchange inadequate to serve the perpetrators obediently!
The pertinent question is the route we in the periphery have to take to sustain our respective populations enabling them to bring food to the table. In one word the answer logically is ‘foreclosure’! We have to close ourselves in, we have to look inwards and apply the lockdown on a Nation State basis instead of the individuals. We have to forget alien mediums of exchange, sanctions and alien political dictates of the West or the East. We have to sustain ourselves and keep the wolves out of our aboards to survive. Their agendas however wrapped up as candy is for their benefit and not ours. This is clear and no leadership statement to the contrary has any relevance except high treason. Let us step back into history prior to the colonial era and we will see that simplicity of exchange in a free market environment, san political lust to subjugate the world, kept the earth a much liveable destination.
Pakistan presents a great potential with its natural and human resources to survive in denial of the global order of any sort whatsoever and that is the pioneering example this Nation State must set. We need food to survive and a functional economy to bring that food to the table. We need to take full advantage to free our economy from the parasites of control who have restricted the freedom of enterprise in the country and have promoted subservience to alien powers. We need to lean on our people to wave that magic wand that will enable us to produce and sell anything the world has available. We can do it better and for sure! Here is a time in the thick of this global war that we regroup, reorganize and reconstruct our existence free from the clutches of alien captors. Our alibi is legal and just because it is based on an ideology that we follow. Our ideology denies slavery, it denies all ploys that question our social and economic independence. We only depend on our Creator and beyond that the rest is a ‘sport and a pastime’! There will not easily be another opportunity in the foreseeable future of this nature to organize ourselves to meet with change in consonance with the demands of our ideology. Will the brainwashed and alienated please think!
— The writer is an entrepreneur and author of the book Current Chronicles based in Karachi.