This is a depressing, but all too credible account of
the situation in Pakistan, an understanding of which requires a
human-evolutionary, i.e. Darwinian, perspective.
We must see ourselves as the evolved animal we actually
are, increasingly, if not completely, removed from the tribal context in and
for which our emotions and behaviour patterns evolved. As isolated individuals
or in make-shift, pseudo tribes, we flounder, while continuing to pursue
(some, especially those who would lead us, decisively and often
ruthlessly), our primordial drive for survival, advantage (over others) and
"success", only now misplace, perverted, rationalised, and thus
unrecognised, in the artificial environment of human society itself, where it
has largely been reduced to the pursuit, possession, retention and exercise of
POWER, in all its forms (money, the moral high ground, social and professional
status, etc).
There is no greater or more urgent need than that we
break the taboos which blind and bind us, so that we can recognise and develop
an understanding of our own Darwinian nature, of the social, political and
economic power structures it has given rise to, and the ways they dominate us
to our own detriment (as described in this article) and, ultimately,
destruction.