Abstract
Metaphors are central in the forming of perceptions. These have greater impact on recipients. The closest in metaphor resembling Pakistan’s crisis is Shakespeare’s Hamlet. It is a problem play. In the end there is so much evil around that everybody kills everyone else. As the play thickens and is sufficiently spread, it makes it to its logical conclusion. They end up destroying each other. And when folly reaches a point, the wrong doers eliminate each other. After a given point, everything plays out in a crystal clear way. The inevitability is there. What in fact happens is that everyone distorts the reality to fit the circumstances. They recast the reality to fit the distortion. The tragedy catches up as if it had to be. Each step reinforces the other. The self induced hypnosis goes on. To believe anything else is self destruction. The subordinates outdo the desires. In the clash of personalities, individuals turn into a shuttle. What happens to executives is that the unfolding rationalization and logic tackles despair and nothing else. In the process they become part of it. Common sense is defied. How lonely one becomes is the ultimate truth in statecraft. Despite being neutral, the night becomes an adversary. The rare conclusion is that there is a play within the play and so on and it goes on.
Dr. Khalil-ur-Rehman, . (2011) Pakistan’s Leadership Crisis , The Dialogue, Volume 6, Issue 3.
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