KARACHI: Can one collectively diagnose a country? A pathological state that Pakistan suffers from is \u2018denialism\u2019, roughly defined as the tendency to reject reality and replace it with twisted logic \u2013 Illuminati, Jews, intelligence agencies \u2013 so that on an individual and collective level we can all absolve ourselves of responsibility for the plight of this blighted nation.
\nOne does not have to look very far for examples of this phenomenon \u2013 whether it\u2019s the \u2018masks\u2019 that Meera says people wore when they \u2018impersonated\u2019 her in a televised feed or the accursed green colour on the soles of our shoes that caused us great loss on the cricket pitch. A venerable collection of social commentators gathered at Habib University on Friday to discuss the admittedly sophisticated structure of our institutionalised denial.<\/p>\n
KARACHI: Can one collectively diagnose a country? A pathological state that Pakistan suffers from is \u2018denialism\u2019, roughly defined as the tendency to reject reality and replace it with twisted logic \u2013 Illuminati, Jews, intelligence agencies \u2013 so that on an individual and collective level we can all absolve ourselves of responsibility for the plight of<\/p>\n