Neela wrote:Shiv-ji,
All I said was that Pakistan derives its strength from events earlier. Nowhere did I mention that Pakistan ruled India.
To clarify what I said earlier, IMO, Pakis think that if the earlier invading armies could do it, it should be possible for them too. And they will not stop trying.And even if a new entity is born out of a break-up, it will continue that goal.
Neela ji, this is a very important point you make - in understanding the "psychosomatics" of Pakistaniyat.
1. The thing is, the "earlier invading armies" had "done it" mostly to the ancestors of today's Pakis. They were the ones who mostly felt the pain and the humiliation, and all its consequences for individual and collective Memory.
2. This pain-memory has no sense of "time" - i.e. it can restimulate all aspects of the original experience in present-time if any restimulators are present. And in this case all prominent restimulators ARE present, including their own land, the Hindu neighbors, the ashraafs.
3. Subsequently, as multi-valent personalities, when this pain-memory is in restimulation, it provides a seemingly inexhaustible source of energy for the person to "act out". This is important, and is the gist of your post, IIUC. The "power source" for Pakistaniyat is their identification with certain painful historical events - except that instead of identifying with the humiliated valence, they are identifying with the triumphant valence.
4. But that valence manifestation is only the mask, beneath which lies all the subconscious pain, guilt, rage, etc. Without even being in their original valence, they are not even close to diffusing the pain memory and coming to terms with it, thereby denying themselves a psychosomatic release.
5. When such a pain-memory is in chronic restimulation, it leads to illnesses. In the case of an individual it leads to physical illnesses or other conditions. For a society it leads to bouts of violence or a general lethargy and dwindling spiral.
Conclusions:
(a)
These pain-memories are deep wellsprings of "power", "inspiration" and "survival potential" for Pakistaniyat that must never be underestimated by its targets. Its the sort of thing that produces Alexanders and Ganghis Khans.
(b) One way to disarm and diffuse Pakistaniyat is by a genuine psycho-spiritual process, but that would require us to build affinity at a mass, people-to-people level. This would be a wonderful thing if it could be done. But the fact that we ourselves are a restimulator makes an approach on this circuit difficult and full of traps. Think of a person trying to play guru to his or her spouse in a violent marriage!
(c) So when that genuineness is not forthcoming, then one must take all precautions to prevent a dramatization of pain-memory -- prevent them from acting out, or punish every such episode. As part of punishment, one could eliminate one-by-one certain obvious restimulators in the environment, such as monuments erected by perpetrators of pain whom they venerate. E.g. the Badshahi Mosque in Lahore, etc. The clinging to physical bodies and perceptics is characteristic of such pain-memory driven identity psychology. Knocking them out may help dissociate such identity.
Punishment and suppression of dramatizations also pushes them down further, though unfortunately it doesn't resolve the problem. But at least it quarantines it ... until such time as the sheer necessity level of survival surges up and dislodges the hold that such pain-memories can have on the psycho-somatic system. Then a space for rational action is created.