Meer Ishaq

Understanding the social existence

Responsible citizens of a security state

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Its a common practices of our life that we take certain responsibilities and play a role accordingly. But this responsibility and the role played with it, is not always allowed with free choice. Sometimes bondage and subjugation is also enforced on us in the name of responsibility. And this is what happens with the citizens of a security state.   

There are so many thing from our household to the society which comes under the enforced responsibilities. Like the unjust order found in mostly household affairs sets many limits which are enforced in the name of responsibility to your family. This is enforced because in the presence of free choice a person would never want to obey these. Similar things exists as we march into the society where we see many senseless prohibitions and also things to do which we may not be willing to do.

As in the case of anything enforced we either resist to restore our free choice or we became ready to accept things. Resistance is a possible thing with its many faces but mostly things are so self-deceptive that we don’t find us subjugated but blessed indeed. And with a short narrative which says that “with freedom comes responsibilities” we are ready to put a long list of things in the name of responsibilities and then move to enforce these responsibilities on ourselves.

For our societies we have a complex structure which is called state. It is a well structures and matures institution with its certain tool and flow of power and actual decision making which is always making or amending this list of enforced responsibilities for us. And what matters the most is the mind behind this complex machinery which is the basic factor defining this list of so-called responsibilities. And we have seen it changing according to changes in its certain interests.

These enforced responsibilities don’t makes a sense in the first glimpse. But it will soon prove itself to you and you either come to accept it yourselves or you will just see it accepted by you.

Let it be the situation of war with a neighboring country, an internal disaster or any internal conflict, sooner you will start feeling the list of responsibilities which you are assume to accept without finding any other option.

Although this list is never absolute in itself but having a great degree of flexibility among the items it include. As the mind behind all these changes over the time, it brings consequent change in the implementing order. These changes are mostly so dramatic that we might find the whole list replaced with a new ones.
Living in a security state somehow seems to be a similar experience. You are in an emergency situation but you are failed to understand why you are in this situation. And then you are also informed about a stupid plane to coup that situation and again you failed to understand why are they going to coup it. And also you are given a list of responsibilities which are either accepted by you or which are enforced on you.

And the most interesting part of these all is that this list keeps changing and soon you will find yourself in another emergency situation with another coup plane and another list of you responsibilities.  

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