Zubairulous

Socrates, the greatest philosopher the world ever produced, took no moment of hesitation in drinking hemlock for something that would lay the foundation upon which the edifice of progress lies in history: dissent. For synthesis to exist, there must be anti-thesis - in the form of dissent - against dogmatic, fallible, and above all, fallacious thesis. Europe achieved its acme by promoting dissent, and so did America. Unfortunately, Pakistan stands among the nations that have deliberately and systematically quelled voices remotely deemed dissenting. In this regard, Aldous Huxley, a prominent philosopher, says “Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man does not become king. He gets lynched.” The chequered history of Pakistan in terms of dissent testifies to such notions. The mass lynching of Mashal Khan, for example, casts a long shadow on an already repressive society, devoid of any sort of freedom of expression. As a consequence of such atrocities, h...