{"id":43031,"date":"2014-07-23T16:54:22","date_gmt":"2014-07-23T11:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/?p=43031"},"modified":"2014-07-23T16:54:22","modified_gmt":"2014-07-23T11:54:22","slug":"transcending-selective-collective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/2014\/07\/23\/transcending-selective-collective\/","title":{"rendered":"Transcending\u00a0 from being selective to collective"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Awais Ali Khan\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

In fact diversity is a blessing, when people from eclectic backgrounds live peacefully and work in concordance. It\u2019s when masses improvise in a streamlined-collective-dimension and participatory-social acceptance. Human beings are interdependent, despite of discrete levels\u00a0\u00a0 of self; autonomy, reliance and prioritization. It conveys applicability of a basic phenomenon, signifying spirit and need of collectivism and joint ventures, for sustainability of initiatives aimed at wellbeing of masses at large.<\/p>\n

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State has the principal role of abridging gaps, and leveling the community statures by policy directives and action oriented initiatives\u00a0\u00a0 embodying spirit of justice, equality and fair play. Another parental role of state is to manage and maintain social and communal equilibrium in society, by taking in to consideration the concerns of\u00a0\u00a0 majority masses, and taking mitigatory efforts. It has to act as mother, who maintains equality for all of its children, and at the same time uplifts the child, who is possibly most weak in her progeny. The beauty of mother\u2019s love lies in its way of dealing that, weakest of her child gets support, and other children don\u2019t feel deprived as well.<\/p>\n

Governments\u2019 role in running state machinery should be patterned with the aforementioned notion, that all communities and groups get treatment based on \u2018equality of their intrinsic capacity\u2019. The ones, who ought to be empowered more, are to be prioritized though, but with such mature conviction that\u2019s acceptable. It can be made more rational by participatory approval of masses, so that the possibility of generating alienation and legitimizing grounds of being partial, are reduced.<\/p>\n

Civil society entities somehow can follow, same egalitarian approach of state, replicating principles of proportionate-communal-equilibrium. The visualization of their policy directives should be reflected, in action plans of these non-governmental entities .These efforts ensure prevalence of justice and acceptable redistribution of resources attributes and services .If government isn\u2019t able to do it alone, civil society can be utilized and taken help from, to materialize the goal of proportionate and distributive justice. The public-private partnership initiatives, instead of being tagged as selective in nature\u00a0\u00a0 should be termed as holistically beneficial, but for achieving that useful and sustainable participatory approaches are to be adopted.<\/p>\n

In a utopian approach, where efforts of state are likely to be deemed less selective, even\u00a0 then civil society and private entities can try serving as good examples .There on, the perspectives of civil society and private entities, on moral and rational grounds should be \u2018collective in nature\u2019 .Efforts of civil society can be significant guidance, for setting a positive trend in this\u00a0 for other public institutes, policies and directives ,if\u00a0 proportionately participatory and collective approach is adopted. The civil society\u00a0\u00a0 \u2018sections\u2019\u00a0\u00a0 working for selectively oriented perspectives\u00a0\u00a0 can\u2019t be fruitful in long run for \u2018whole\u2019 of society. It has a long-term accumulative effects of giving outputs under skewed trends, which can create a sense of alienation and agitation for the rest of the entities, and instigate people, feeling being dejected of their\u00a0\u00a0 due rights.<\/p>\n

\u2018Structural functionalism\u2019 principal says society works as a body. All parts, needed to be catered in their demands and requirements, so that \u2018collective equilibrium\u2019 is maintained. Other way, imagine if only selective parts of body get nurtured and trained, ignoring rest of body. This skewed pattern of development will disturb naturally acceptable equilibrium, and result will be nothing less than a disaster in longer run.<\/p>\n

The mitigation for that can be achieved by re-orienting\u00a0 perspectives ,from selective to collective, regional to societal, skewed to neutral and \u2018divergent to centralized\u2019 .This will ensure provision\u00a0 of proportionately acceptable justice and redistribution, by participatory consent and social acceptance of majority of masses.<\/p>\n

Awais Ali Khan is a youth activist and a student of UET, Lahore. He can be reached at : awais890@yahoo.com.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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