To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.
Mikhail Bakunin

08 September 2007

let's all be soldiers

I have the solution to the Pakistani Army's habit of meddling in the civilian domain. Every adult - male or female - should try to get a replica/imitation of the soldier's uniform, if possible with fake copies of all the medals and badges and start wearing it as often as possible. Just to walk around in a public place. That will make the whole adult population look like the army and render the significance of the real army useless. If everyone looks like a soldier, then a soldier's nobody special, is he? This is the only way to introduce democracy to the Pakistani Army -- outnumber them with the sheer multitude of imitation/simulated soldiers. If they can imitate the role of the presidents, the governors, the vice chancellors of public universities, then the public should imitate the armed forces. This is the only real solution. This is the subversive potential of the simulacrum. At last, the good old (and now dead) Baudrillard's theory can be put to a radical use by a country's entire (70 % illiterate) population.

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