Globally, it is witnessed that there is a large segment of
the world’s population that, due to inaccessibility to education and exposure,
remains bereft of attaining their potential. That is established in fact and,
to a certain extent, accepted as an unchanging truth of global disparities. Individuals,
due to insufficient exposure to ideas and under par development of critical
thinking abilities, are severely challenged in processing complex stimuli and
reaching meaningful conclusions that add to, or make sense of, the discourse
around them. However, that is not the real tragedy.
The real tragedy of our country, Pakistan, is quite
different, and significantly more depressing. Individuals who have access to
such opportunities and do not suffer from a lack of resources that inhibit
their ability to attain above mentioned skills fail to make use of these
opportunities. That is the real tragedy. The tragedy of the uncommons. Families
with access to education fail to inculcate a culture that utilizes it. Individuals
that do undergo the education process fail to make use of it due to their
laziness. We are a country plagued by unreasonable dogma. A country that views
the world and its issues in binaries. We are a country where even the uncommons
possess an inability to decode complex stimuli to reach meaningful and complex
conclusions, not because of a lack of intelligence but because of an inability
to commit themselves to the challenge.
That is the tragedy of the uncommons that is so
much more discomforting than the inability of those without these resources or
opportunities to meet the same objectives.
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