The convolution of being and even of the best of beings and its thousand years of evolution has only made it marvel at the achievements it has acquired; however, it has not enabled it to make life a better opportunity. The beauty of life has to be in order, in the proportionate amalgam of discipline, dignity and sense of responsibility as beauty itself is the outcome of order and balance. Yet the humanly designs, the highly praised superior intellect has ultimately acquired nothing but disorder and chaos. The so-called sane minds have succumbed to the chaotic intentions and nothing prevails except misery. Human systems, ideologies, isms and politics have not been able to bless the world with bliss and contentment and the footprints of chaos can be traced in various parts of the world without much endeavour. It is unfortunate to mention that our country is one of the countries that have been highly influenced by chaos.
Let’s see the nature of the chaos that has engulfed our society and its possible reasons. It has been mostly believed by the common people in Afghan society that the politics and the politicos are mostly responsible for the chaos and disorder prevailing; and to a certain extent, they are not wrong about it. I do realize that currently there has been much ridicule generated against the politicians by media, yet most of it does not qualify to be irrelevant. In fact, our politics and politicians have not left much choice for us to form a different opinion.
I am not a traditional hater of politics, whom you can find conveniently nowadays, chanting slogans against the “filthy nature” of politics and not losing any golden chance of defaming politics; and even consider it synonymous with fraud. I, instead, believe that politics is a social science and its proper understanding and practice can lead a state towards prosperity and stability; neither I am like the so-called analysts of our society who believe that every socio-political change is nothing more than a machination of the imperialists, who, in fact, are the victims of the “Conspiracy theory” and can see nothing happening other than what is determined by the super powers. Politics to them is a puppet show, whose script is already written and nothing can happen other than what has to happen. Their minds have been caught in the black-hole of determinism and they avoid the endeavours to shoulder the burden of reasonable and scientific analysis. In my perception they are suffering from insecurity complex and do not have the vision to see through the hazy atmosphere of ambiguities and uncertainties.
The socio-political scenario in Afghanistan is evident to everyone. There are many problems that we are going through. We are facing many economic, social and political challenges and the most unfortunate fact is that we are not totally prepared to overcome them. Decades of wars and instability have further influenced our capacities to face the challenges. And then there is corruption, which like an anaconda has tightened itself around the society in such a way that it has no chance of escape. Extremism and terrorism have penetrated deep within the roots of our society and have been threatening our people to a great extent. Disorder, disturbance and chaos are building hurdles in front of the designs of our authorities to establish order, discipline and dignity.
The current chaos is, to a certain extent, because of our ruling elite as everyone can observe that they because of their negligence and self-cantered incentives have made politics a ridicule. They are, in the true sense of politics, answerable to both politics and the people. Politicians, in fact, are to serve the people, facilitate the people with their basic requirements, guide the nation, lead the nation towards a better system, solve the problems and issues and have the sense of responsibility. In our country, the politicians evade the people, fulfil their own requirements and demands, mislead the nation, never strive for political order and institutionalization, utilize the issues for their personal and group interests and do not have even slightest sense of responsibility.
On the other hand, because of the strategic importance of Afghanistan, it has been dominated by the international political games played by the world powers. In fact, imperialism blinded with extreme power has influenced the Afghan land to a large extent. "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely," said by John Emerich, an English historian, politician & writer. I have no doubt in the correctness of this statement. You will not have as well, if you have a proper analysis of the contemporary international scenario. Few say that "Imperialism has died", while I believe it has taken a new birth, it has been transformed in what is more scary. The capacity of imperialism to exercise power has been enhanced by the availability of advanced mechanisms.
No land is far away from the imperialists and no one can avoid their influences. They are the decision-makers, they decide the destiny of the nations and they determine the course of world order. A little happens in the favour of what they dislike. They follow their interests in weaker countries in different ways. They can launch a direct war, influence the other countries through cultural dominance or affect their policies through aid and assistance.
However, blaming the other countries for all of the disorders and disturbances has been one of the policies of our political leaders to avoid responsibility. It also helps them create a sense of lethal enemy who is always ready to destroy us and who has nothing else to ponder upon except our extinction. And we fall prey to such ill intentions and get ready to believe such concepts as a result of our blind and fanatic patriotism. In fact, in such a way we become ripe to be utilized by them the way they want.
A little political understanding and prudence can make us understand the games that are basically played by international world and our own rulers. On some occasions they make us be lost in the imaginations of an ideal society and on some others they slap us with the harsh realities to come back to the real world. What we understand is half-reality and half-lie, which is more dangerous than the whole-lie.
At the same time, it must not be forgotten that the understanding and attitude of the people have to be blamed to a certain extent as well for the chaos and disturbance in the society. If the rulers are not able to rule properly, they are also not able to understand their responsibilities and avoid performing them appropriately.